outhEastern Energy Development, Inc. (SEED) is a New York
corporation, organized in 1995, that holds an exclusive sublicense
to apply the patents and proprietary technology of Pure Vision
Technology, Inc. (PVT), a Denver, Colorado corporation, within the
States of North Carolina and South Carolina. SEED also holds a first
right of refusal to similarly license the same patents and
proprietary technology throughout the southeastern States with the
sole exception of the State of Florida. Pure Vision Technology's
bioseptic process makes fuel grade ethanol and cogenerated
electricity from cellulose waste by the enzyme hydrolysis of
cellulose waste and the fermentation of the sugars that are produced
by enzyme hydrolysis. We believe that enzyme hydrolysis has the
potential to provide one third of our Nation's energy requirements
when fully utilized.
Ed Lehrburger,
President of Pure Vision Technology, Inc.
Dr. Dick
Wilkerson, Ph.D., Director of Research and Development for Pure
Vision Technology, Inc.
SEED has
entered into negotiations to acquire control of as much of the
United States Department of Energy's Three Rivers Land Fill as will
be needed for PVT's $10,000,000 pilot project, to be completed in
2001. The prototype 500-1,000 ton per day plant is planned to be
built in Denmark, South Carolina because most of the Three Rivers
Land Fill's waste stream is already being transported through or
near Denmark en route to the Three Rivers Land Fill. The plant will
convert each 500 tons per day of clean cellulose waste into
13,700,000 gallons of fuel grade ethanol per year while producing
electricity in excess of the plant's own needs in the amount of 4.8
megawatts or 115 megawatt-hours per day. Different cellulose waste
streams will generate varying results with the cleanest waste
streams being the most efficiently productive. SEED has arranged for
an $85,000,000 private placement to finance both the pilot scale
plant and its proposed commercial scale operation. Upon the
completion of SEED's private placement, PVT and SEED will merge into
SouthEastern Energy Development of South Carolina, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of SEED (SEED of SC), then conduct a registered
offering of the equity securities of SEED of SC in the first quarter
of 2001. The Board of Directors of Pure Vision Techonlogy,
consisting of Ed Lehrburger, Carl Lehrburger and Dr. Dick Wilkerson
has approved the merger under the condition that SEED's venture
capital firm, Capital Resources Financial, Ltd., successfully places
the $85,000,000 private placement for the pilot plant and the
initial commercial plant. SEED's Board of Directors has approved the
merger. As of 12:00 PM on Friday, August 25, 2000 shareholders of
SEED, holding 9,239,948 shares or 96.62 percent of the 9,563,276
shares that were eligible to vote, have voted to approve the merger
with Pure Vision Technology, Inc. The articles of merger that will
be filed in New York, Delaware, Colorado and South Carolina are now
being drafted by each Company for the other's review and acceptance.
Pro Forma
Earnings Projection
SEED can only
estimate its results from proposed operations because the technology
is new. No company has ever applied PVT's technology on a commercial
scale before now. PVT will be the first company to demonstrate an
economically viable and environmentally friendly process for turning
cellulose waste into commercially usable fuel. Only bench scale test
results are currently available. If the pilot scale tests confirm
the laboratory results, SEED believes that the following assumptions
will be reasonable:
1. Enzymes will
be required in the hydrolysis process at a ratio of one pound per
1,000 pounds of clean cellulose waste;
2. Enzymes
presently cost $6.00 per pound when purchased from competing
suppliers who manufacture those enzymes for use in other
processes;
3. During 1999
PVT made improvements in the enzyme enhancement process that enabled
PVT to produce enzymes for less than $1.00 per pound;
4. Assuming
that the enzyme production process will require three months of
operation in order to produce a sufficient inventory of enzymes for
the commercial scale requirements of the proposed Denmark facility,
it follows that the Denmark facility will require externally
produced enzymes, purchased at a cost of $6.00 per pound for its
first three months of cellulose hydrolysis operations;
5. Thereafter,
SEED's cost of enzymes applied to the hydrolysis process would be
limited to the cost of producing those enzymes using PVT's
proprietary technology for less than $1.00 per pound;
6. Assuming
that the hydrolysis process consumes 500 tons per day of clean
cellulose waste, the annual cost of enzymes to treat that waste, not
considering the economies of recapturing enzymes from the end of the
process, should be less than $1,000,000;
7. Assume that
the 500 ton per day prototype plant will require a staff of 12-15
employees;
8. Assuming
that the plant will employ one plant manager at $200,000 per year,
two assistant plant managers at $150,000 per year, six technicians
at $80,000 per year and three maintenance persons at $40,000 per
year, the gross payroll would then be $1,100,000;
9. Budgeting
payroll taxes and fringe benefits at 25% of gross salaries, SEED's
annual personnel costs at the Savannah River Division would be
$1,375,000;
10. Of the 9
counties of the State of South Carolina that are currently dumping
their solid waste at the Three Rivers Land Fill, half are already
source separating their clean waste from their general
waste;
11. SEED has
opened negotiations with a major collection firm in SEED's target
region to establish a joint venture that can provide SEED with a
source of raw material and save the collection firm a significant
amount of its tipping fees. Transportation costs are not anticipated
to be significant with regard to the direct materials of SEED's
process at the proposed location;
12. If the
plant costs $45,000,000 to construct and has a useful life of 25
years, $1,800,000 should be budgeted for straight line
depreciation;
13. Interest on
a declining balance loan of $25,000,000 at 10% per annum would be
$2,489,344 in the first year of operation;
14. Assuming
that $3,000,000 is budgeted for marketing and distribution, that
indirect materials used in relation to the process cost no more than
$500,000 per year and that all of the ethanol produced is sold at an
average price that is no less than $1.00 per gallon, the pre-tax
earnings of the Denmark Division can be expected to meet or exceed
$3,500,000 before general and administrative costs.
It should be
noted that utilities have not been budgeted as a production cost
because the process produces more electricity than the plant
requires. At the utility cooperative rate of $60.00 per megawatt
hour, the excess electrical power cogeneration represents a minimum
ancillary revenue of $2,522,880. Obviously, the spot market presents
more handsome opportunities for the sale of available
power.
Strategic
Alliance
Until recently
Pure Vision Technology, Inc. has been related to SEED only as the
lessor of technology. With the commencement of SEED's retainer of a
venture capital firm for the private placement of a debt-equity
package that, if placed, would be sufficient to underwrite Pure
Vision's pilot process, the prospect of an even closer relationship
between SEED and Pure Vision has been created. Negotiations are
presently under discussion with respect to the possible ratios of
stock that might be exchanged in a pooling of interests should
SEED's financing be successful. No guarantee can be given that the
pooling will take place but the matter is being given serious
consideration at this time. SEED's venture capitalists have stated
that they would look more favorably upon SEED's program were the
pooling to take place.
Management
Profiles
Mylo EyTina is
an attorney at law and a certified public accountant. After
incorporating SEED in 1996, Mr. Eytina contracted to serve the
Company as its Counsel and Vice President of Finance for a term of
ten years in consideration of a ten year stock option contract. In
April, 1999 Mr. EyTina was appointed to the position of President of
SouthEastern Energy Development, Inc. by a unanimous vote of the
Board of Directors. In consideration of Mr. EyTina's additional
responsibilities, his stock option contract has been revised
accordingly.
Foreground:
Robert Washington, Vice President of Quality Control and
Counsel Background: Leniah Johnson, Vice President of
Production
Robert
Washington is an attorney at law and came to the Company from both a
successful law practice in Brooklyn, New York and a three decade
career with Pfizer, Inc., first as a bench chemist, then as a
manager, rising to the position of Assistant to the Director of
Quality Control.
Robert M.
Smith, Sr., CEO and Secretary
Robert M.
Smith, Sr., a former recording industry entrepreneur, is the founder
of the Company, having provided substantially all of the starting
capital of the Company and having provided the initial corporate
contacts that enabled the Company to establish its public-private
partnership with the City of Denmark, South Carolina, the location
of SEED's headquarters office.
As of 12:01
A.M. on Friday, March 17, 2000 our Self-Issuer exempt offering under
Rule 504 of SEC Regulation D has closed. Interested investors must
contact an NASD Broker-Dealer in securities to inquire about an
over-the-counter purchase from existing investors.
ANNUAL
REPORT
Jerry D.
Gambrell, CPA of Charleston, South Carolina has completed the field
work for the the Company's December 31, 1999 audit. he is currently
preparing to issue his final report. When we receive the final audit
report, we will post each page on this web site under one or more of
the link buttons on the Home page (More about us). __________________
Marketing
Consultants
SEED has
reatained the services of International Marketing Organization, Inc.
to perform an anaylsis of SEED's resource markets and its wholesale
and retail distribution markets. The completed analysis will be a
welcome addition to SEED's business plan. A condensed version will
be posted as a link to the Home page (More about us). We may expect
this analysis within 45 days.
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Shareholder
Trading Bulletin Board
At the Present
Time the Following Shareholders are offering their shares, acquired
during the Rule 504 exempt offering of the common stock of SEED, as
follows:
Mylo EyTina,
President and Acting Chairman: 6,250 shares at $1.50 per share in
units of 100 shares; 5,000 shares at $1.625 per share in units of
100 shares; 5,000 shares at $1.75 per share in units of 100 shares
and 40,000 shares at $2.00 per share in units of 1,000
shares.
Purchasers may
submit their bids to purchase the Company's shares and get purchase
and payment instructions by using the "Email Us" button below. A bid
must contain the quantity (in units of 100 shares) and the price at
which the bidder wishes to buy the shares, together with the
bidder's name, address, telephone number and social security number
for registration of the bidder's ownership on the stock records of
SEED. In addition, any holder of Rule 504 shares may use the "Email
Us" button to post his/her offer to sell on this website via free
e-mail. American Express, MasterCard and VISA are accepted in
payment for purchases of SEED shares.
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