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Related Party Transactions
9 Months Ended
Feb. 29, 2016
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

Note 4. Related Party Transactions

 

Yorktown Management and Financial Services, LLC

 

Yorktown Management & Financial Services, LLC (“Yorktown”), an entity wholly owned by Greystone’s CEO and President, owns and rents to Greystone (1) grinding equipment used to grind raw materials for Greystone’s pallet production and (2) extruders for pelletizing recycled plastic into pellets for resale and for use as raw material in the manufacture of pallets. GSM paid weekly rental fees to Yorktown of $22,500 for use of Yorktown’s grinding equipment and $5,000 for the use of Yorktown’s pelletizing equipment for which GSM paid Yorktown rental fees of $1,072,500 for the nine months ended February 29(28), 2016 and 2015, respectively.

 

For the period from September 2015 to February 29, 2016, GSM rented from Yorktown, on a month-to-month basis, a grinding and wash line facility located in Tulsa, Oklahoma for processing recycled plastic for which Yorktown was paid rents of $105,000. Effective February 29, 2016, GSM purchased this grinding and wash line equipment located in the facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma from Yorktown for $1,137,865 and assumed the month-to-month rental of the facility from an unrelated third party. Payment terms of the purchase included an offset of a receivable from Yorktown of $449,569 as of February 29, 2016 and a note payable form GSM to Yorktown in the amount of $688,296 at 5% interest and payable in monthly instalments of $20,629 over three years.

 

Additionally, Yorktown provides office space for Greystone in Tulsa, Oklahoma at a monthly rental of $2,200.

 

TriEnda Holdings, L.L.C.

 

Warren F. Kruger, Greystone’s President and CEO, has a majority ownership interest in and serves as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of TriEnda Holdings, L.L.C. (“TriEnda”). TriEnda uses a thermoform process to manufacturer plastic pallets, protective packaging and returnable dunnage. Beginning in fiscal year 2015, Greystone provides tolling services to TriEnda by blending and pelletizing plastic resin using TriEnda’s equipment and raw materials. Tolling service sales to TriEnda totaled $253,466 and $254,012 during the nine months ended February 29(28), 2016 and 2015, respectively. As of February 29, 2016, the account receivable from TriEnda was $72,105. Greystone purchased from TriEnda the waste material from the pelletizing process ($71,000 purchased in fiscal year 2016 and none in the prior year) for which Greystone owed TriEnda $6,883 at February 29, 2016.

 

Green Plastic Pallets

 

Greystone sells plastic pallets to Green Plastic Pallets (“Green”), an entity that is owned by James Kruger, brother to Warren Kruger, Greystone’s president and CEO. Greystone had sales to Green of $203,562 in fiscal year 2016 and an account receivable at February 29, 2016 in the amount of $28,360. There were no sales in fiscal year 2015.