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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-QSB
     
þ   QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED MARCH 31, 2007
OR
     
o   TRANSACTION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM                      TO                     
COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 333-130606
KREIDO BIOFUELS, INC.
(Exact Name of Small Business Issuer as Specified in Its Charter)
     
NEVADA   20-3240178
     
(State or Other Jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. Employer
Incorporation Organization)   Identification No.)
1140 Avenida Acaso, Camarillo, California 93012
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
     
(805) 389-3499
(Issuer’s telephone number, including area code)
N/A
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)
Indicate by check mark whether the issuer (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the issuer was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No o
Indicate by check mark whether the issuer is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes o No þ
At May 11, 2007 the issuer had 52,532,202 shares of common stock issued and outstanding.
 
 

 

 


 

(KREIDO BIOFUELS LOGO)
FORM 10-QSB QUARTERLY REPORT
QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED MARCH 31, 2007
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PART I
Item 1. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Kreido Biofuels, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
                 
    March 31,     December 31,  
    2007     2006  
    (unaudited)     (audited)  
ASSETS
               
Current assets
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 20,886,000     $ 59,000  
Other Current Assets
    72,000        
 
           
Total current assets
    20,958,000       59,000  
Property and equipment — net
    1,923,000       322,000  
Patents, less accumulated amortization of $296,000 and $278,000 in 2007 and 2006, respectively
    802,000       788,000  
Other assets
    6,000       21,000  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 23,689,000     $ 1,190,000  
 
           
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (CAPITAL DEFICIT)
               
Current liabilities
               
Current portion of convertible notes payable, net of discount of $1,044,000 in 2006 (Note 8)
  $     $ 5,637,000  
Current portion of capital leases (Note 9)
    43,000       50,000  
Accounts payable
    382,000       346,000  
Accrued expenses
    92,000       951,000  
 
           
Total current liabilities
    517,000       6,984,000  
Capital leases, less current portion
    133,000       66,000  
 
           
Total liabilities
    650,000       7,050,000  
 
           
Stockholders’ equity (capital deficit) (Note 8)
               
Series C convertible preferred stock, no par value. Authorized 8,600,000 shares; no shares issues and outstanding
               
Series B convertible preferred stock, no par value. Authorized 200,00 shares; no shares issues and outstanding
               
Series A convertible preferred stock, no par value. Authorized 500,000 shares; no shares issued and outstanding
               
Series A1 convertible preferred stock, no par value. Authorized 549,474 shares; issues and outstanding were none and 549,474 shares as of March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively
          3,628,000  
Series B1 convertible preferred stock, no par value. Authorized 13,783,783 shares; issued and outstanding were none and 10,011,355 shares as of March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively
          10,011,000  
Common stock, $0.001 par value in 2007 and no par value in 2006. Authorized 150,000,000 shares issued and outstanding were 52,532,202 and 720,501 shares as of March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively
    52,000       103,000  
Restricted common stock, $0.001 par value in 2007 and no par value in 2006; issues and outstanding were none and 641,786 shares as of March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively
          64,000  
Additional paid-in capital
    38,575,000       3,469,000  
Warrant Valuation
    8,076,000        
Deferred compensation
    (5,000 )     (9,000 )
Deficit accumulated during the development stage
    (23,659,000 )     (23,126,000 )
 
           
Net stockholders’ equity (capital deficit)
    23,039,000       (5,860,000 )
 
           
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity (capital deficit)
  $ 23,689,000     $ 1,190,000  
 
           
See notes to financials statements.

 

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Kreido Biofuels, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
                         
                    Period from  
                    January 13, 1995  
    Three Months Ended     Three Months Ended     (Inception) to  
    March 31, 2007     March 31, 2006     March 31, 2007  
Operating expenses
                       
Research and Development
  $ 20,000     $ 331,000     $ 15,856,000  
General and administrative expenses
    704,000       147,000       5,556,000  
Loss on sale of property and equipment
                89,000  
Loss from retirement of assets
                318,000  
 
                 
Loss from operations
    (724,000 )     (478,000 )     (21,819,000 )
Other income (expenses)
                       
Interest expense
          (211,000 )     (3,082,000 )
Interest income
    192,000             256,000  
Other income
          21,000       1,151,000  
Other expenses
                (154,000 )
 
                 
Total other income (expenses)
    192,000       (190,000 )     (1,829,000 )
 
                 
Loss before income taxes
    (532,000 )     (668,000 )     (23,648,000 )
Income tax expenses
    1,000       1,000       11,000  
 
                 
Net loss
  $ (533,000 )   $ (669,000 )   $ (23,659,000 )
 
                 
Net loss per share — basic and diluted
  $ (0.01 )   $ (0.49 )   $ (0.45 )
 
                 
Shares used in computing net loss per share
    52,532,202       1,362,287       52,532,202  
 
                 
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Kreido Biofuels, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Statement of Stockholders’ Equity (Capital Deficit)
                                                                                                         
                                                                                            Deficit        
                                                                                            Accumulated     Stockholders’  
    Series A1 Convertible     Series B1 Convertible                     Restricted     Additional                     During the     Equity  
    Preferred Stock     Preferred Stock     Common Stock     Common Stock     Paid-In     Warrant     Deferred     Development     (Capital  
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Capital     Valuation     Compensation     Stage     Deficit)  
Balance, January 1, 2007
    549,474     $ 3,628,000       10,011,355     $ 10,011,000       720,501     $ 103,000       641,786     $ 64,000     $ 3,469,000           $ (9,000 )   $ (23,126,000 )   $ (5,860,000 )
 
                                                                             
Conversion of notes, accrued interest payable and related warrants, on a net exercise basis, to common stock at the converted acquisition basis
                            10,224,178       10,000                   6,367,000                         6,377,000  
Conversion of Series A preferred stock to common stock at the converted acquisition basis
    (549,474 )     (3,628,000 )                 619,946       1,000                   3,627,000                          
Conversion of Series B preferred stock to common stock at the converted acquisition basis
                (10,011,355 )     (10,011,000 )     11,295,342       11,000                   10,000,000                          
Conversion of existing Kreido Laboratories common stock to common stock at the converted acquisition basis
                            816,504       1,000       (641,786 )     (64,000 )     63,000                          

 

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                                                                                            Deficit        
                                                                                            Accumulated     Stockholders’  
    Series A1 Convertible     Series B1 Convertible                     Restricted     Additional                     During the     Equity  
    Preferred Stock     Preferred Stock     Common Stock     Common Stock     Paid-In     Warrant     Deferred     Development     (Capital  
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Capital     Valuation     Compensation     Stage     Deficit)  
Conversion of consulting warrants, on a net exercise basis to common stock at the converted acquisition basis
                            1,587,213       2,000                   (2,000 )                        
Common stock issued in connection with the acquisition old Kreido Biofuels common stock
                            8,750,000       (94,000 )                 94,000                          
Commons stock issued in connection with the $25 million January 2007 private placement offering
                            18,518,519       18,000                   14,950,000                         14,968,000  
Warrants to purchase common stock issued in connection with the $25 million January 2007 private placement offering
                                                          8,076,000                   8,076,000  
Compensation expense
                                                    7,000             4,000             11,000  
Net loss
                                                                      (533,000 )     (533,000 )
Balance, March 31, 2007
        $           $       52,532,202     $ 52,000           $     $ 38,575,000     $ 8,076,000     $ (5,000 )   $ (23,659,000 )   $ 23,039,000  
 
                                                                             
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Kreido Biofuels, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
                         
                    Period from  
    Three Months     Three Months     January 13, 1995  
    Ended March 31,     Ended March 31,     (Inception) to  
    2007     2006     March 31, 2007  
Cash flows from operating activities
                       
Net Loss
  $ (533,000 )   $ (669,000 )   $ (23,659,000 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
                       
Depreciation and amortization
    44,000       41,000       1,413,000  
Loss on sale of assets
                89,000  
Loss on retirement of assets
                318,000  
Noncash stock compensation
    11,000       15,000       830,000  
Amortization of convertible debt discount
          68,000       1,236,000  
Inducement to convert debt discount
                152,000  
Inducement to convert debt
                58,000  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                       
Prepaid and other assets
    (57,000 )     (4,000 )     (129,000 )
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
    40,000       (66,000 )     1,390,000  
Accrued interest on notes
          140,000       507,000  
 
                 
Net cash used in operating activities
    (495,000 )     (475,000 )     (17,795,000 )
 
                 
Cash flows from investing activities
                       
Purchase of property and equipment
    (1,554,000 )     (1,000 )     (2,295,000 )
Proceeds from sale of assets
                95,000  
Investments in patent application
    (32,000 )     (54,000 )     (1,351,000 )
 
                 
Net cash used in investing activities
    (1,586,000 )     (55,000 )     (3,551,000 )
 
                 
Cash flows from financing activities
                       
Proceeds from the issuance of Series A convertible preferred stock
                938,000  
Proceeds from the issuance of Series B convertible preferred stock
                1,500,000  
Proceeds from the issuance of Series C convertible preferred stock
                2,424,000  
Proceeds from the issuance of Series B1 preferred stock
                720,000  
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock warrants
                217,000  
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock
    23,044,000             23,044,000  
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt
                14,381,000  
Principal repayment of long-term debt and capital leases
    (136,000 )     (10,000 )     (992,000 )
 
                 
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
    22,908,000       (10,000 )     42,232,000  
 
                 
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
    20,827,000       (540,000 )     20,886,000  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    59,000       1,002,000        
 
                 
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 20,886,000     $ 462,000     $ 20,886,000  
 
                 
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information
                       
Cash paid during the period for:
                       
Interest
  $ 13,000     $     $ 347,000  
Income taxes
    1,000       1,000       11,000  
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Kreido Biofuels, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
                         
                    Period from  
    Three Months     Three Months     January 13, 1995  
    Ended March 31,     Ended March 31,     (Inception) to  
    2007     2006     March 31, 2007  
Supplemental disclosure of noncash investing and financing activities
                       
Purchase of property and equipment through capital leases
  $ 73,000     $     $ 833,000  
Additions to machinery and equipment through settlement of capital lease
                61,000  
Additions to machinery and equipment through issuance of common stock
                100,000  
Conversion of notes payable into Series A preferred stock
                1,180,000  
Conversion of notes payable into Series C preferred stock
                5,530,000  
Conversion of accounts payable into Series C preferred stock
                30,000  
Conversion of accrued interest into Series C preferred stock
                441,000  
Warrants issued in connection with convertible notes
                2,007,000  
Conversion of Series A preferred stock into Series A1 preferred stock
                2,118,000  
Conversion of Series B preferred stock into Series A1 preferred stock
                1,511,000  
Conversion of Series C preferred stock into Series B1 preferred stock
                8,414,000  
Conversion of notes payable in to Series B1 preferred stock
                850,000  
Conversion of accrued interest into Series B1 preferred stock
                18,000  
Conversion of accrued interest into notes payable
                72,000  
Conversion of notes payable into common stock
    5,637,000             5,637,000  
Conversion of accrued interest into notes payable
    863,000             863,000  
Conversion of Series A preferred stock into Series A1 common stock
    3,628,000             3,628,000  
Conversion of Series B preferred stock into Series A1 common
    10,011,000             10,011,000  
Conversion of Kreido Laboratories common stock into common stock
    167,000             167,000  
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Kreido Biofuels, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
NOTE 1 BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Kreido Biofuels, Inc. (“Kreido” or “the Company”) at March 31, 2007 and for the three month period ended March 31, 2007 and 2006 have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial information and with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the interim periods presented have been included. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any other interim period or for the full year. They do not include all information and notes required by United States generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes contained in Kreido’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the period from inception (January 13, 1995) through December 31, 2006.
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
NOTE 2 ORGANIZATION
Kreido Laboratories, formerly known as Holl Technologies Company, was incorporated on January 13, 1995 under the laws of the State of California. Since incorporation, Kreido Laboratories has been engaged in activities required to develop, patent and commercialize its products. Kreido Laboratories is the creator of reactor technology that is designed to enhance the manufacturing of a broad range of chemical products. The market for these products is developing in parallel to the Company’s activities. The Company considers itself a development stage enterprise because it has not yet earned significant revenue from its commercial products. The Company creates and intends to license innovative chemical and bio-chemical reacting systems.

 

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Kreido Biofuels, Inc. was incorporated as Gemwood Productions, Inc. under the laws of the State of Nevada on February 7, 2005. It changed its name from Gemwood Productions, Inc. to Kreido Biofuels, Inc. on November 2, 2006. The Company took its current form on January 12, 2007 when Kreido Laboratories completed a reverse triangular merger with Kreido Biofuels, Inc. (Note 8).
The cornerstone of Kreido Laboratories’ technology is its patented STT(ä) (Spinning Tube in Tube) diffusional chemical reacting system, which is both a licensable process and a licensable system. In 2005, the company demonstrated how the STT™ could make biodiesel from vegetable oil with complete conversion and less undesirable by-products. The Company has continued to pursue this activity and is in the process of building a pilot production plant and developing the first of its commercial biodiesel production factories in the United States that it expects will produce approximately 30 million gallon per year.
NOTE 3 CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS AND PLANT DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Kreido has commenced development of one of its full scale biodiesel production plants (“full scale plant”) and one of its pilot biodiesel production plants (“pilot plant”). The Company is in the process of negotiating the lease for the site of the full scale plant. The pilot plant is being constructed in an existing biodiesel production facility. The Company expects to complete the construction of the pilot plant in 2007 and complete the full scale production plant in 2008. Total estimated costs to be incurred for construction of the two facilities are between $12,000,000 and $18,000,000. At March 31, 2007, construction expenditures of $1,545,000 have been incurred and recorded as construction-in-progress and, in addition, approximately $550,000 was committed through purchase orders issued to sub-contractors and equipment vendors for services and equipment to be provided after March 31, 2007.
NOTE 4 NET LOSS PER COMMON SHARE
Basic net loss per common share is calculated by dividing the net loss applicable to common shares by the weighted-average number of common and common equivalent shares outstanding during the period. For the three months ended March 31, 2007, there were no potential common equivalent shares used in the calculation of weighted-average common shares outstanding as the effect would be anti-dilutive because of the net loss. During the quarter ended March 31, 2007, the Company issued an additional 1,355,384 stock options under its 1,355,384 under its 2006 Equity Compensation plan.
                 
            Period from  
            Inception  
    Three Months     (January 13,  
    Ended     1995) through  
    March 31, 2007     March 31, 2007  
Weighted-average shares used to compute basic and diluted net loss per common share:
    52,532,202       52,532,202  
 
           
 
               
Securities convertible into shares of common stock not used because the effect would be anti-dilutive:
               
Stock options under the 2006 Equity Incentive Plan
    1,355,384        
 
               
Stock options under the 1997 Stock Compensation Program
    1,164,983        
Stock warrants related to private placement of common stock
    18,518,519        
Other stock warrants
    571,334        
 
           
 
    21,610,220        
 
           

 

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NOTE 5 PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
Property and equipment at March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006 is summarized as follows:
                 
    March 31, 2007     December 31, 2006  
Furniture and fixtures
  $ 43,000     $ 43,000  
Machinery and equipment
    270,000       270,000  
Capitalized leases
    423,000       347,000  
Office equipment
    121,000       115,000  
Leasehold improvements
    47,000       47,000  
Construction in progress
    1,545,000        
 
           
Total
    2,449,000       822,000  
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization
    (526,000 )     (500,000 )
 
           
Net book value
  $ 1,923,000     $ 322,000  
 
           
Depreciation expense for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006 was $26,000 and $21,000, respectively.
NOTE 6 COMMON STOCK AGREEMENT
In January 2007, the Company completed a private placement offering of its common stock. The accredited investors purchased 18,518,519 units of our securities (“Unit”), at a purchase price of $1.35 per Unit. Each Unit consisted of one share of the Company’s common stock and a warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $1.85 per share. The warrants expire January 12, 2012. The fair value of the warrants on the date of issuance was $8,075,000 and was calculated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions: contractual life of 5 years; no dividends, risk free interest rate of 4.65% and volatility of 56.5%. The Company received proceeds from the offering of approximately $23 million, net of offering related costs and the repayment of $123,000 in outstanding short-term notes. Currently, the common stock purchased and the underlying shares of common stock for the warrants are unregistered. The Company has an obligation to register the common stock and shares underlying the warrants within 120 days from the registration filing date, February 14, 2007, otherwise they will be required to issue up to 15% of additional shares, based on the number of days the shares remain unregistered.
NOTE 7 STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
The Company has recorded in general and administrative expenses, $4,000 and $2,000 of compensation expense for each of the three month periods ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively, relating to stock options issued to non-employees for services rendered during those periods.
Upon the adoption of SFAS123(R), the Company recorded $7,000 and $13,000 of compensation costs relating to stock options granted to employees and non-employees for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively. The amounts recorded represent equity-based compensation expense related to options that were issued from 2003 to 2006. The compensation costs are based on the fair value of the stock options at the grant date.
The fair value of the options issued during the for the three months ended March 31, 2007 were estimated using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following assumptions: risk free interest rates between 4.52% and 4.78%, expected life of three and a half (3.5) years and expected volatility of 56.5%. Compensation cost for the issuance of stock options granted in 2007 will not be recorded until vesting commences beginning June 2007. There were no issuances in stock options for the three months ended March 31, 2006.

 

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Summary stock option activity is as follows:
                 
            Weighted  
    Number of     Average  
    Options     Exercise Price  
Balance at December 31, 2006
    1,164,984     $ 0.36  
Granted
    1,355,384       1.33  
Exercised
           
Cancelled
           
 
           
Balance at March 31, 2007
    2,520,368     $ 0.88  
 
           
For options granted in prior years under the intrinsic-value-based method, the Company has recorded $4,000 of deferred compensation as additional paid-in capital based on the difference between the market price of the common stock and the option exercise price at the date of grant during 2006. Related compensation expense of $4,000 and $5,000 was recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively.
The following table summarizes information regarding options outstanding and options exercisable at March 31, 2007:
                                         
    Options Outstanding     Options Exercisable  
    Outstanding at     Weighted-Average                    
Range of   March 31,     Remaining     Weighted-Average     Exercisable at     Weighted-Average  
Exercise Prices   2007     Contractual Life     Exercise Price     March 31, 2007     Exercise Price  
$0.01 - 0.19
    860,573       4.93     $ 0.09       665,009     $ 0.09  
$0.20 - 0.89
    225,312       2.45       0.77       220,732       0.77  
$0.90 – 1.35
    1,381,084       2.98       1.33       25,700       1.24  
$1.36 – 2.53
    53,399       3.23       2.45       53,399       2.45  
 
                               
 
    2,520,368             $ 0.88       964,484     $ 0.41  
 
                               
NOTE 8 RECAPITALIZATION
In January 2007, Kreido Laboratories completed a reverse triangular merger with Kreido Biofuels, Inc. (formerly known as Gemwood Productions, Inc.), a publicly traded company. In connection with the merger, Kreido completed a private placement offering issuing 18,518,519 shares of Kreido common stock at $1.35 per share and warrants to purchase 18,518,519 shares of Kreido common stock at an exercise price of $1.85 per share (see Note 6). As part of this transaction, outstanding Series A and Series B Preferred Stock of Kreido Laboratories and related warrants totaling $13,369,000 and 10,560,829 shares were converted to 12,390,530 shares of Common Stock of Kreido and warrants to purchase 294,530 shares of common stock of Kreido. All payments of all accumulated preferred stock dividends were waived. Outstanding convertible notes payable and related accrued interest of $6,501,000 were converted into 10,224,177 shares of common stock of Kreido. Additionally, all outstanding commons stock and certain warrants to purchase common stock of Kreido Laboratories were converted to 2,648,976 shares of common stock of Kreido on a net exercise basis as determined by the Board of Directors in conjunction with the reverse merger. The current shareholders of Kreido converted their existing common stock to 8,750,000 shares of Kreido. The reverse merger was accounted for as a recapitalization for financial accounting purposes.

 

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Item 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OR PLAN OF OPERATION
THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS PROVIDES INFORMATION WHICH OUR MANAGEMENT BELIEVES IS RELEVANT TO AN ASSESSMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL CONDITION. THIS DISCUSSION SHOULD BE READ TOGETHER WITH OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT, AND WITH OUR ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-KSB FILED ON APRIL 4, 2007.
In addition to historical information, this discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that relate to future events and expectations and, as such, constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include those containing such words as “anticipates”, “believes”, “estimates”, “expects”, “hopes”, “targets”, “should”, “will”, “will likely result”, “forecast”, “outlook”, “projects” or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements.
As used in this report, the terms “we,” “us,” and “our,” mean Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and our subsidiaries, unless otherwise indicated.
We took our current form on January 12, 2007, when our wholly-owned subsidiary, Kreido Acquisition Corp. (“Acquisition Sub”) and Kreido Laboratories executed a Merger Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (the “Merger Agreement”). On January 12, 2007, Acquisition Sub merged with and into Kreido Laboratories, with Kreido Laboratories remaining as the surviving corporation and as our wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Merger”).
The Merger was treated as a recapitalization of our company for accounting purposes. Our historical financial statements before the Merger were replaced with the historical financial statements of Kreido Laboratories in all filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) subsequent to January 12, 2007. The offering provided net proceeds of approximately $23 million, which included the repayment of $123,000 in outstanding notes and the cancellation of indebtedness of approximately $250,000.
Concurrently with the closing of the Merger, we completed a private offering of 18,518,519 units of our securities (the “Units”) at a purchase price of $1.35 per Unit. Each Unit consisted of one share of our common stock and a warrant to acquire one share of our common stock at an exercise price of $1.85 per share. The warrants are exercisable for a period of five years from January 12, 2007.
Also contemporaneously with the closing of the Merger, Kreido split-off another wholly-owned subsidiary, Gemwood Leaseco, Inc., a Nevada corporation, through the sale of all of the outstanding capital stock of Gemwood Leaseco, Inc. (the “Split-Off”). As a consequence of the sale of Gemwood Leaseco, Inc., we discontinued all of our business operations which we conducted prior to the closing of the Merger, and spun off all material liabilities existing prior to that date in any way related to our pre-closing business operations. Our primary operations are now those formerly operated by Kreido Laboratories, as well as other business activities which we have developed since January 12, 2007, as described in this Prospectus.
As the result of the Merger, the Split-Off and the change in our business and operations from a day spa and salon services company to a technology company focusing on the production of biofuel, a discussion of the past financial results of our company is not pertinent and our financial results as consolidated with Kreido Laboratories, the accounting acquirer, are presented here. Thus, the discussion of our financial results addresses only Kreido Laboratories.

 

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Kreido Laboratories is a corporation founded to develop proprietary technology for building micro-composite materials for electronic applications. In 1995, Kreido Laboratories began to develop the technology used in the design and assembly of our STT® Reactor. Kreido Laboratories thereafter sought to develop the technology to improve the speed, completeness and efficiency of certain chemical reactions, including esterifications and transesterifications, in the special chemical industries. We designed and developed the STT® Reactor which incorporates our proprietary “spinning tube-in-tube” design configuration to improve the speed and yield of chemical reactions. One of the EPA’s largest laboratories has been using our STT® Reactor-based technology since 2004 to develop and evaluate new chemical processes and develop and optimize protocols for use of the STT® Reactor by public and private entities. Beginning in the last quarter of 2005, Kreido Laboratories began to evaluate the advantages of the STT® Reactor specifically for the production of biodiesel. In the first quarter of 2006, Kreido Laboratories elected to focus exclusively on the biodiesel industry and began to prepare and execute our current business plan.
Plan of Operations
We plan to commercialize our proprietary equipment system for biodiesel production on an industrial scale and to become one of the leading providers of biodiesel in the United States and elsewhere. We expect to execute our business plan by generating revenues from multiple sources; 1) by building and operating our own STT® Reactor-based Biodiesel Production Units with an anticipated biodiesel production capacity of approximately 100 MMgpy by the end of 2008; 2) licensing our STT® Reactor-based technology to others which may require one of our production units to be in operation, and 3) in the longer term, by investing in businesses that will develop or use our STT® Reactor-based technology for production of biofuels and specialty chemicals.
To date, we have accomplished the development and production of our STT® Reactor internally and the development of the STT® Production Unit by outsourcing to a professional engineering firm and a manufacturer of engineered packaged systems. Our engineering partner is R.C. Costello & Assoc. Inc. of Redondo Beach, California. This firm provides engineering design and improvements for chemical plants, natural gas plants and refineries, with an emphasis on process intensification. The firm has 11 years’ experience in reaction engineering, distillation and process safety.
Our manufacturing partner is Certified Technical Services L.P. of Pasadena, Texas. This firm has been a heavy industrial contractor and manufacturer of engineered packaged systems for 20 years.
We plan to directly market and distribute the biodiesel that we produce in our owned and operated facilities to diesel blenders and other distributors of diesel products. We plan to use diversified feedstock in our plants.
We anticipate that we will execute our business strategy with the following actions:
   
place one pilot STT® Reactor in the field, producing ASTM-quality biodiesel;
 
   
hire additional construction project management, manufacturing, production plant operations, sales, marketing and business development personnel;
 
   
construct at least one of our own production plants equipped with STT® Production Units; and
 
   
enter into discussion with parties interested in licensing the STT® Production Units for both domestic and international biodiesel production.
We are developing three biodiesel production plants, each of which will employ our STT® Production Units. The development of the biodiesel production plants will require significant expenditures on equipment and materials and we expect to use a majority of the proceeds of the January 2007 private placement in the construction of the pilot and production plants. As feedstock and biodiesel prices change or as the demand for superior biodiesel production technology increases, we may determine that it is in our best interest to sell or license our STT® Production Units in the near term in lieu of building our second and third plants as soon as we currently plan. Because of the compact size of our reactor and ability to process different feedstocks, we believe that our STT® Production Unit technologies will provide us with cost and efficiency advantages when compared to companies developing conventional biodiesel plants. In the execution of our business plan, we anticipate that we will increase our number of employees in the next 12 months to approximately 85 employees.

 

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The three plants planned for development are expected to be located in Chicago, Illinois and Wilmington, North Carolina as well as in a location to be determined for which we are negotiating with a large terminal operator with operations currently in the Gulf region, southeast and Pacific northwest region of the U.S..
Since our business over the next 18 months consist primarily of constructing up to three biodiesel production plants and pilot plant, the results of our operations and financial condition will reflect that of a biodiesel refinery, engineering and construction company. If we are successful in implementing our current business plan of building biodiesel production plants then our results of our operations should reflect that of a biodiesel refiner and marketer. Accordingly, the results of operations and cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 are not anticipated to be indicative of the results of operations and cash flows for future long-term periods.
We believe that we can satisfy our cash requirements for at least the next 8 months, however we may need to raise up to an additional $20 million in the fourth quarter of 2007 in order to support our current plan’s funding needs.
Consolidated Results of Operations for fiscal year ended March 31, 2007
Operating Expenses
Loss from operations for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $724,000, resulting from $20,000 of research and development expenses and $704,000 of general and administrative expenses.
Other Income (Expense)
Other income (expense) for fiscal year 2006 was $192,000, comprised principally of interest income.
Net Loss
Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $533,000, equivalent to a loss of $0.01 per common share.
Comparison of three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006
Operating Expenses
Operating expenses in the three months ended March 31, 2007 increased by $246,000 compared to $478,000 for the same period in 2006. Research and development expense for the three months ended March 31, 2007 decreased by approximately $311,000, or 94%, compared to $331,000 for the same period in 2006. The decrease related to the shift away from research and development and into the commencement of the construction of the biodiesel production plants and our commercial STT reactor which are being capitalized. General and administrative costs increased to $704,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2007 from $147,000 for the same period in 2006. The increase was related to legal fees and consulting costs related to the Merger and private placement offering, increased costs associated with a public company and an increase in administrative personnel. We expect operating costs, especially general and administrative costs to increase over the next few years as construction activities increase and as we continue to grow and add personnel. Additionally, we will continue to incur additional costs associated with the requirements of operating as a public reporting entity.
Other Income (Expense)
Other income (expense) for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was other income of $192,000 compared to other expense of $190,000 for the same period in 2006. Other income for the three months ended March 31, 2007 consisted of interest income compared to the same period in 2006 consisting of $211,000 of interest expense offset by $21,000 of other income. We expect interest expense for 2007 to be minimal due to the conversion and retirement of debt in January 2007.

 

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Net Loss
Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $533,000, or a 20% decrease compared to the net loss of $669,000 for the same three month period for 2006. There were no net sales or gross profit for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006. We expect to incur net losses for the next couple of years as we continue to construct our biodiesel production plants.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Net cash used by operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $495,000 and was comparable to the $475,000 used in operations for the same period in 2006.
Net cash used by investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $1.6 million which was a significant increase from $55,000 used by investing activities for the same period in 2006. The cash used in 2007 consisted primarily of the purchase and construction of equipment and facilities associated with the building of our biodiesel production plants. Costs of the plants consisted of labor and overhead, engineering and general contractor costs and the purchase of equipment such as centrifuges, tanks, control panels and other equipment and machinery used in the construction of the plants. We also invested $32,000 and $54,000, respectively, in patents for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006.
Net cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $22.9 million consisting primarily of the private placement sale of our common stock netting proceeds to us of approximately $23 million. This was offset by the repayment of outstanding notes and the payment of capital leases. The cash used in financing activities was $10,000 for payments of capital lease obligations for the three months ended March 31, 2006.
Concurrently with the closing on January 12, 2007 of the Merger of Acquisition Sub and Kreido Laboratories, which was treated as a recapitalization of our company for accounting purposes, we consummated a private offering of 18,518,519 units of our securities at a purchase price of $1.35 per Unit. Each Unit consisted of one share of our common stock and a warrant to acquire one share of our common stock at an exercise price of $1.85 per share. The warrants are exercisable for a period of five years from January 12, 2007. The private placement of the Units resulted in our receiving from the gross proceeds of approximately $25 million, net proceeds of approximately $23 million.
We anticipate that the net proceeds of the private placement offering of the Units will enable us to carry out our current operating plan to the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2007. Based upon our projected activities, we believe that an additional $20 million in financing will be sufficient to support our current operating plan. However, if our operating plan changes, we may require additional financing at an earlier time. Financing may not be available on terms acceptable to us or our investors, and may be available only on terms that would negatively affect existing stockholders. If adequate funds are not available, we may not be successful in executing our operating plan as anticipated.

 

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Revenue Recognition
Our revenues are expected to be derived from licensing our patented processes, leasing our patented equipment to carry out the licensed processes, providing on-going technical support and know-how, and in the future, the sale of biodiesel. Revenues from product sales will be recorded upon shipment. Revenues from technology licensing will be, based upon the nature of the licensing agreement, recorded upon billing due date established by contractual agreement with the customer or over the term of the agreement. For sales arrangements with multiple elements, we will allocate the undelivered elements based on the price charged when an element is sold separately. Through the end of March 31, 2007, we have recognized no significant commercial or licensing revenue. It is anticipated that once we have built and begin operating the commercial biodiesel production plants, the majority of revenue will be based upon the sale of biodiesel to distributors.
Research and Development
Research and development costs related to the design, development, demonstration, and testing of reactor technology are charged to operations as incurred.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
We consider all highly liquid investments with a maturity date of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents.
Use of Estimates
Preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods covered by the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Depreciation and Amortization
The provision of depreciation of property and equipment is calculated when put into service on a straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the related assets, generally ranging from five to seven years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of the useful life of the related asset or the lease term.
Patents
Capitalized patent costs consist of direct costs associated with obtaining patents. Patent costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over 15 years, which is the expected life beginning in the month that the patent is issued. Patent costs are capitalized beginning with the filing of the patent application.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
We continually evaluate whether events and circumstances have occurred that indicate the remaining estimated useful life of long-lived assets may warrant revision or that the remaining balance of long-lived assets may not be recoverable in accordance with SFAS No. 144, Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets. When factors indicate that long-lived assets should be evaluated for possible impairment, we use an estimate of the related undiscounted future cash flows over the remaining life of the long-lived assets in measuring whether they are recoverable. If the estimated undiscounted future cash flows exceed the carrying value of the asset, a loss is recorded as the excess of the asset’s carrying value over its fair value. No assets were determined to be impaired as of March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006.

 

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Stock-Based Compensation
Prior to January 1, 2006, we accounted for employee stock-based compensation using the intrinsic value method supplemented by pro forma disclosures in accordance with APB 25 and SFAS 123 “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” (“SFAS 123”), as amended by SFAS No. 148 “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation — Transition and Disclosures.” Under the intrinsic value based method, compensation cost is the excess, if any, of the quoted market price of the stock at the grant date or other measurement date over the amount an employee must pay to acquire the stock. Under the intrinsic value method, we recognized stock-based compensation common stock on the date of grant.
Effective January 1, 2006, we adopted SFAS 123(R) “Share Based Payment” using the modified prospective approach and accordingly prior periods have not been restated to reflect the impact of SFAS 123(R). Under SFAS 123(R), stock-based awards granted prior to January 1, 2006 will be charged to expense over the remaining portion of their vesting period. These awards will be charged to expense under the straight-line method using the same fair value measurements which were used in calculating pro forma stock-based compensation expense under SFAS 123. For stock-based awards granted on or after January 1, 2006, we determined stock-based compensation based on the fair value method specified in SFAS 123(R), and we will amortize stock-based compensation expense on the straight-line basis over the requisite service period.
For periods prior to January 1, 2006, SFAS 123(R) requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from initial estimates. Previously under APB 25 to the extent awards were forfeited prior to vesting, the corresponding previously recognized expense was reversed in the period of forfeiture. There is no stock-based compensation expense for the quarter ended March 31, 2007.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The carrying values reflected in the balance sheets for cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their fair values due to the short maturity of these instruments. The carrying value of convertible notes payable and capital leases approximates their fair value based upon current market borrowing rates with similar terms and maturities.
Comprehensive Loss
Except for net loss, we have no material components of comprehensive loss, and accordingly, the comprehensive loss is the same as the net loss for all periods presented.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In February 2007, the Financial Accounting Board (FASB) issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities” (“SFAS 159”) which permits entities to choose to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value that are not currently required to be measured at fair value. SFAS 159 will be effective for us on January 1, 2008. We are currently evaluating the impact of adopting SFAS 159 may have on our financial condition or results of operations.

 

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In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (“SFAS 157”). SFAS 157 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosure of fair value measurements. SFAS 157 applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements and, accordingly, does not require any new fair value measurements. SFAS 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. We do not believe that the adoption of SFAS 157 will have a significant effect on our financial statements.
In July 2006, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (“FIN 48”), which is an interpretation of SFAS No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes (“SFAS 109”). FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an enterprise’s financial statements in accordance with SFAS 109 and prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. FIN 48 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. FIN 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. We do not believe that the adoption of FIN 48 will have a significant effect on our financial statements.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(c) of Regulation S-B, promulgated by the SEC.

 

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RISK FACTORS
An investment in our common stock is highly speculative and involves a high degree of risk. Investors should carefully consider the risks below before making an investment decision. Our business, financial condition or results of operations could be materially adversely affected by any of these risks. In such case, the trading price of our common stock could decline and investors could lose all or part of their investment.
Risks Related to the Contemplated Conduct of our Business
We have had no operating history as a producer of biodiesel or as a producer of equipment systems for the biodiesel industry. Our anticipated results of operation and financial condition are planned and estimated on the basis of our assumptions with respect to our anticipated operations.
We have no operating history in our contemplated biodiesel production business and, to date, have not earned any revenues in connection with that business. We have no experience operating, selling or licensing processing equipment or complete systems to the biodiesel or other fuel industry. We have only recently, in the fourth quarter of 2005, begun to pursue commercial applications for the STT® Reactor in the biodiesel industry. Accordingly, it may be difficult for investors to evaluate our business prospects or our ability to achieve our business objectives. If our efforts do not result in both revenues and profits, we may be forced to cease operations and liquidate, and investors may lose their entire investment.
If we cannot successfully address these risks, our contemplated business and the anticipated results of our contemplated operations and financial condition would suffer.
We have been a development stage company since 1995 and have a history of significant operating losses. We may not ever achieve or maintain profitability.
We have incurred significant operating losses since our inception, and, as of March 31, 2007, we have accumulated a deficit of approximately $23.7 million. We may continue to incur operating losses, depending largely upon the commercial success of our STT® Reactor and STT® Production Units. To date, we have neither sold nor licensed any commercial-scale products. We will need to generate revenues in excess of our expenses to become profitable, and we may be unable to do so. If we do not become profitable, the value of our common stock may decline.
Our operating losses may increase as we continue to incur costs for manufacturing, sales and marketing, research and development and legal and general corporate activities. Whether we achieve and maintain profitability depends in part upon our ability, alone or with others, to successfully complete the development of biodiesel production facilities, to sell biodiesel at a profit, to successfully complete the development of our equipment systems and to sell or license those equipment systems at prices that enable us to generate a profitable return.
We may be required to implement our business plan other than as described herein.
We may find it necessary or advisable to substantially alter or materially change our commercialization activities to respond to changes that occur in the future.
Although core to our business plan is to own and operate biodiesel production plants in the United States for our own account, part of our contemplated business strategy is to license STT® Production Units to others primarily outside the United States. The portion of our contemplated business model that calls for us to license STT® Production Units to others is dependent on the market’s willingness to adopt a new biodiesel production technology. Our STT® Production Unit may never gain acceptance from the biodiesel market, which would put in jeopardy that portion of our business model that relies on licensing STT® Production Units to others. This risk is amplified by the fact that, although we are currently building our first commercial-scale STT® Production Units, we have not completed building our first such unit. None of our products are currently being used to produce biodiesel on a commercial scale.

 

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Should biodiesel producers fail to adopt our STT® Biodiesel Production Units, or should a superior competing technology be developed, it may not be possible to fund our operations as expected. The degree of market acceptance of our STT® Biodiesel Production Units will depend on numerous factors, including the effectiveness of our product and the biodiesel market’s willingness to use a new processing technology.
Our ability to execute our business plan is dependent on the growth and maintenance of substantial demand for biodiesel in the United States. It is impossible to predict what the current demand for biodiesel is since so little of it is currently being produced and all that is being produced is being sold. Accordingly, the failure of a biodiesel market to develop could adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.
We have not produced or operated any commercial-scale STT® Reactors or STT® Production Units.
We have designed, built, and licensed two bench-scale STT® Reactors to the specialty chemical and pharmaceutical markets and have designed and built pilot-scale STT® Reactors ranging from 8 to 100 ml capacity. We have also designed and are now building commercial-scale STT® Production Units for producing biodiesel. We have yet to license our first STT® Production Unit or install one in our own biodiesel production plant. We do not know if our commercial-scale STT® Production Unit will produce biodiesel fuel to ASTM standard in the volumes that we anticipate or whether our equipment systems will gain commercial acceptance in the biodiesel industry. Therefore, we are uncertain whether we will be able to sell, license or lease any STT® Biodiesel Production Units to any third parties. If we are unable to produce and operate our equipment systems on a commercial scale and generate biodiesel to ASTM standard, then we may be forced to cease operations or to raise additional capital to further develop our equipment systems. Additional capital may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all.
We are likely to require additional funding to execute our business plan, and additional funding may not be available. If additional funding is available, it may not be offered to us on terms that are satisfactory to our board of directors.
We anticipate that we will require additional capital in the future to sufficiently fund our operations. We may not be able to obtain additional capital on terms favorable to us or at all. We have consumed substantial amounts of capital to date, and we expect to increase our operating expenses over the coming years as we build our pilot unit and first production unit, expand our facilities and infrastructure and prepare for commercialization activities.
Based upon our projected activities, we believe an additional $20 million will be needed in the fourth quarter of 2007 in order to support our current operating plan’s funding needs. However, if this plan changes, we may require additional financing at an earlier time. Financing may not be available on terms acceptable to us or our investors, and may be available only on terms that would negatively affect the existing stockholders. If adequate funds are not available, we likely will not be successful in executing our business plan as anticipated and, as a result, we may be forced to cease operations and liquidate, in which case investors may not be able to receive any return of their invested capital.
We cannot be certain that additional financing will not be needed beyond our current and projected needs or will be available when required and, if available, that it will be on terms satisfactory to us. Future financings may be dilutive to existing stockholders. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flow and are otherwise unable to obtain funds necessary to meet our funding requirements, this would adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition
A substantial part of our assumptions regarding our financial advantages in the biodiesel production business are estimates and therefore may not be correct.
We believe that our STT® Production Units will have higher yields and a less per gallon cost than conventional biodiesel production systems. This is based, in part, on what we believe will be favorable facilities construction costs. If the actual cost exceeds the costs that we project to construct our planned production facilities, it would adversely affect the amortization of our capital costs. This in turn would decrease or eliminate certain of our anticipated costs advantages with respect to conventional biodiesel plants.

 

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We believe that the per gallon cost of producing biodiesel will be less than petrodiesel based primarily on the cost of feedstock and raw materials used in making biodiesel. We have relied on historical costs for process inputs, such as feedstocks and other materials used in the production process. These historical costs may not remain at or below the levels that we project through 2008, which is the time at which we expect that our facilities will begin to produce biodiesel. If the costs of these inputs increase, then the costs advantages that we anticipate may not be present, and we may not be able to achieve our expected profits or any profits at all.
Moreover, in comparing the projected market price of biodiesel to the price of petrodiesel, we have estimated that the producer price for B100 when we project that our plants will first come on line will be $3.00 per gallon. According to the Energy Management Institute Alternative Fuels Indexsm, the average producer price of B100 diesel across 52 major metropolitan areas in the United States during the week ending May 10, 2007 was $3.28 per gallon, and net of site specific transportation and handling costs, it was $3.12 per gallon. It is possible that this price range will not remain the relevant price range for biodiesel in and after 2008. It is possible that potential oversupply conditions may adversely affect the price level or that demand for biodiesel may not be as strong as forecasted. If the wholesale price for biodiesel does not remain at a level that permits us to generate revenues in excess of our costs, after taking into account tax incentives and credits, then we may not become or remain profitable, in which case we might be forced to cease operations and liquidate.
Our ability to execute our business plan depends on conditions the satisfaction of which is not under our control.
Our ability to successfully execute our business plan depends on the satisfaction of several conditions, including:
   
obtaining all required permits, consents and regulatory approvals from government agencies and other third parties for our anticipated construction and operation of owned biodiesel production plants and related facilities, as well as for the future operation of those facilities;
 
   
successfully commercializing the STT® Reactor technology for biodiesel;
 
   
arranging reasonably priced insurance to cover operating risks and other adverse outcomes which could impair the business; and
 
   
market conditions for fuels that make biodiesel a competitively priced product.
Since we have yet to begin full operation as a biodiesel business, there is no certainty that we will be able to achieve satisfaction of any or all of the above conditions. If we fail to do so, we may be forced to cease operations and to liquidate, in which case investors may not be able to receive any return of their invested capital.
We are dependent upon our officers for management and direction, and the loss of any of these persons could adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.
We are dependent upon our officers for implementation of our business plan. Our key officers include Joel Balbien, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Philip Lichtenberger, our Senior Vice President of Operations and interim Chief Financial Officer, and Alan McGrevy, our Vice President of Engineering. We have recently appointed John M. Philpott as our Chief Accounting Officer and Larry Sullivan as our Chief Technology Officer. The loss of any of these officers could have a material adverse effect upon the anticipated results of our contemplated operations and financial condition and would likely delay or prevent the achievement of our contemplated business objectives. We do not maintain “key person” life insurance for any of our officers.
We may be unable to effectively manage our growth.
Our strategy envisions expanding our business beyond our status as a development stage company. We anticipate significant expansion in our manpower, facilities and infrastructure in the future and expect that greater expansion will be necessary to address potential growth in our customer base and market opportunities. To manage the expected growth of our operations and personnel, we will need to improve our transaction processing, operational and financial systems, procedures and controls. The current and planned personnel, systems, procedures and controls may not be adequate to support our future operations. We may be unable to hire, train, retain and manage required personnel or to identify and take advantage of existing and potential strategic relationships and market opportunities.

 

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If we fail to effectively manage our growth, our anticipated results of operation and financial condition could be adversely affected. Growth may place a strain on our management systems and resources. We must continue to refine and expand our business development capabilities, our systems and processes, and our access to financing sources. As we grow, we must continue to hire, train, supervise and manage new employees. We cannot assure that if we do expand our business that we will be able to:
   
meet our capital needs;
 
   
expand our systems effectively, efficiently or in a timely manner;
 
   
allocate our human resources optimally;
 
   
identify and hire qualified employees or retain valued employees; or
 
   
incorporate effectively the components of any business that we may acquire in our effort to achieve growth.
We may be unable to attract and retain key personnel.
Our development and success is dependent upon our management’s ability to effectuate our transition into a biodiesel technology-development and production company. Our anticipated product development and manufacturing efforts capability will require additional management not yet part of us. There is intense competition for qualified management, research, development and manufacturing personnel in the chemical, engineering and biofuels fields. Therefore, we may not be successful in attracting and retaining the qualified personnel necessary to develop our business.
New technologies could render our biodiesel production system obsolete.
The development and implementation of new technologies may result in a significant reduction in the costs of biodiesel production. For instance, any technological advances in catalysis and/or large scale micro-channel reactor systems could have an adverse effect on our contemplated business. We cannot predict whether new technologies may become available, the rate of acceptance of new technologies by competitors or the costs associated with new technologies. In addition, advances in the development of alternatives to biodiesel could significantly reduce demand for or eliminate the need for biodiesel.
Any advances in technology that require significant capital expenditures to remain competitive or that reduce demand or prices for biodiesel could adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.
Strategic relationships with feedstock suppliers, fabricators, building contractors, equipment suppliers and other unrelated third parties on which we rely are subject to change.
Our ability to develop our business will depend on our ability to identify feedstock suppliers, construction contractors, equipment fabricators and customers and to enter into suitable commercial arrangements with those suppliers, contractors, fabricators and customers. Our success in this area will also depend on our ability to select and evaluate suitable projects, as well as to consummate transactions in a highly competitive environment.
The demand for construction and contract manufacturing companies that are qualified to build biodiesel production plants and equipment has increased. Some companies report that their construction backlogs are as many as four years. We do not have the capability in-house to construct and fabricate our own biodiesel production plant and equipment and we intend to rely on strategic relationships with third-party construction and fabrication companies, some of which we have not yet developed. Furthermore, the recent growth in biodiesel plant construction has caused a backlog on certain specialized equipment. One example of such specialized equipment is centrifuges, for which there is a reported backlog of six months for some models. The failure to secure agreements with construction companies and/or for the requisition of such specialized equipment may adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.

 

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To develop our business, we plan to use the business relationships of our management to form strategic relationships. These relationships may take the form of joint ventures with other private parties or local government bodies, contractual arrangements with other companies, including those that supply feedstock that we will use in our business, or minority investments from third parties. We may not be able to establish these strategic relationships, or, if established, we may not be able to maintain these relationships, particularly if members of the management team leave us. In addition, the dynamics of our relationships with strategic partners may require us to incur expenses or undertake activities we would not otherwise be inclined to incur or undertake to fulfill our obligations to these partners or maintain these relationships. If we do not successfully establish or maintain strategic relationships, we may not be able to achieve our business goals and that could adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.
Our anticipated production, sale and distribution of biodiesel are dependent on the sufficiency of necessary infrastructure, which may not be put into place on a timely basis, if at all. In this case, our anticipated results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected by these infrastructure disruptions.
Substantial development of infrastructure will be required by persons and entities outside our control for our operations, and the biodiesel industry generally, to grow. Areas requiring expansion include, but are not limited to:
   
adequate rail capacity, including sufficient numbers of dedicated tanker cars;
 
   
sufficient storage facilities for feedstock and biodiesel;
 
   
increases in truck fleets capable of transporting biodiesel within localized markets; and
 
   
expansion of blending facilities and pipelines to handle biodiesel.
Substantial investments required for these infrastructure changes and expansions may not be made or may not be made on a timely basis. Any delay or failure in making the changes to or expansion of infrastructure could hurt the demand and/or prices for our products, impede our delivery of products, impose additional costs on us or otherwise have a material adverse effect on our anticipated results of operations or financial condition. Our business is dependent on the continuing availability of infrastructure, and any infrastructure disruptions could adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.
We may be unable to locate suitable properties and obtain the development rights needed to build and expand our business, in which case we will not be able to produce our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.
Our business plan focuses in part on designing, building and operating biodiesel production plants for our own account within existing liquids-handling terminals adjacent to river, lake and seaports. Our ability to secure suitable plant locations could create unanticipated costs and delays in implementing our business plan. If we are not successful in identifying and obtaining development rights on suitable properties for building and operating biodiesel production plants, our future prospects for profitability will likely be substantially limited, and adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.
We may be adversely affected by environmental, health and safety laws, regulations and requirements, any of which could require us to pay or satisfy costs or incur expenses substantially in excess of our business plan.
As we pursue our business plan, we will become subject to various federal, state, local and foreign environmental laws and regulations, including those relating to the discharge of materials into the air, water and ground, the generation, storage, handling, use, transportation and disposal of hazardous materials, and the health and safety of our employees. The cost of compliance with environmental, health and safety laws could be significant. A violation of these laws, regulations and/or permit conditions can result in substantial fines, natural resource damages, criminal sanctions, permit revocations and/or facility shutdowns, as well as civil liabilities to affected property owners. In addition, new laws, new interpretations of existing laws, increased governmental enforcement of environmental laws or other developments could require us to make additional significant expenditures.

 

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The hazards and risks associated with producing and transporting biodiesel, in particular due to the presence of methanol (such as fires, natural disasters, explosions and abnormal pressures and blowouts) may also result in personal injury claims or damage to property and third parties. As protection against operating hazards, we intend to maintain insurance coverage against some, but not all, potential losses. However, we could sustain losses for uninsurable or uninsured risks, or in amounts in excess of existing insurance coverage. Events that result in significant personal injury or damage to our property or third parties or other losses that are not fully covered by insurance could have a material adverse effect on the anticipated results of our contemplated operations and financial condition.
Our anticipated results of operation and financial condition will suffer if we cannot obtain or maintain governmental permits or licenses that are necessary for the operation of our biodiesel production units.
Our pilot plant and biodiesel production facilities operations will require licenses and permits from various governmental authorities. We believe that we will be able to obtain all necessary licenses and permits to carry on the activities that we contemplate. However, our ability to obtain, sustain or renew such licenses and permits will be subject to governmental regulations and policies which are subject to change. Our inability to obtain or retain any of these licenses or permits may have a material adverse effect on our anticipated results from operations and financial condition.
Our success will depend in part on our ability to protect our intellectual property.
Our success, competitive position and future revenues will depend in large part on our ability, to obtain, secure and defend patent protection for our products, methods, processes and other technologies, to preserve our trade secrets, to prevent third parties from infringing on our proprietary rights, and to operate without infringing on the proprietary rights of third parties. Our interest in these rights is complex and uncertain.
We hold five issued patents (plus one pending application for U.S. patents) on our STT® technology for biodiesel production in the United States and internationally. These issued patents expire between 2011 and 2023. We will seek to obtain additional patents that we believe may be required to commercialize our products, technologies and methods. We also have patent applications pending in several foreign jurisdictions. We anticipate filing additional patent applications both in the United States and in other countries, as appropriate. However, we cannot predict:
   
the degree and range of protection any patents will afford us against competitors, including whether third parties will find ways to invalidate or otherwise circumvent our patents;
 
   
if and when patents will issue;
 
   
if our issued patents will be valid or enforceable;
 
   
whether or not others will obtain patents claiming aspects similar to those covered by our patents and patent applications; or
 
   
whether we will need to initiate litigation or administrative proceedings which may be costly whether we win or lose.
Even issued patents may later be found unenforceable, or be restricted or invalidated in proceedings instituted by third parties before various patent offices and courts. Changes in either the patent laws or in the interpretation of patent laws in the United States and other countries may diminish the value of our intellectual property. We are therefore unable to predict the scope of any patent claims in our or in third-party patents that may be issued or may be enforceable.

 

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To help protect our proprietary know-how and our inventions for which patents may be unobtainable or difficult to obtain, we rely on trade secret protection and confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants and advisors. If any of our trade secrets, know-how or other proprietary information is disclosed, the value of our trade secrets, know-how and other proprietary rights would be significantly impaired and our business and competitive position would suffer.
A dispute regarding the infringement or misappropriation of our proprietary rights or the proprietary rights of others could be costly and result in delays in our commercialization activities. Our success depends, in part, on our ability to operate without infringing on or misappropriating the property rights of others.
Any legal action claiming damages or seeking to enjoin commercial activities relating to the affected products, methods, and processes could require us to obtain a license to continue to use, manufacture or market the affected products, methods or processes, which may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, if at all, or could prevent us from making, using or selling the subject matter claimed in patents held by others and subject us to potential liability damages or could consume a substantial portion of our managerial and financial resources whether we win or lose.
Risks Related to our Participation in the Biodiesel Industry
Increases in the construction of biodiesel production plants may cause excess biodiesel production capacity in the market. Excess capacity may adversely affect the price at which we are able to sell the biodiesel that we produce and may also adversely affect our anticipated results of operation and financial condition.
In 2006, only 200 million gallons of biodiesel were produced in the United States. According to the National Biodiesel Board, as of January 31, 2007, there is a reported 864 MMgpy of biodiesel production capacity in the United States, with another 1.7 billion gallons per year under construction (for a total of 2,564 MMgpy) (see http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelfactsheets/Production_Capacity.pdf).
With such an increase in biodiesel production capacity in the United States, compared to historical production levels, there is risk that there will be a significant amount of excess biodiesel production capacity, thereby resulting in significant price competition and the closure of less competitive biodiesel facilities. Although this existing and pending capacity growth is very large compared to historical production levels, we believe that the market will purchase as much biodiesel as is available, so long as the prices for biodiesel (net of the impact of tax credits and other similar incentives) are competitive with those of petrodiesel.
Our anticipated results of operations, financial condition and business outlook will be highly dependent on commodity prices and the availability of supplies, both of which are subject to significant volatility and uncertainty.
Our operating results will be substantially dependent on commodity prices, especially prices for biodiesel and petroleum diesel, as well as feedstock, equipment and materials used in the construction and operation of our biodiesel production plants. As a result of the volatility of the prices and the scarcity of these items, our results may fluctuate substantially, and we may experience periods of declining prices for our products and increasing costs for our raw materials, which could result in operating losses. Although we may attempt to offset a portion of the effects of fluctuations in prices by entering into forward contracts to supply biodiesel or purchase feedstock or other items or by engaging in transactions involving exchange-traded futures contracts, the amount and duration of these hedging and other risk mitigation activities may vary substantially over time, and these activities also involve substantial risks.
The price of feedstock is influenced by market demand, weather conditions, animal processing and rendering plant decisions, factors affecting crop yields, farmer planting decisions and general economic, market and regulatory factors. The principal feedstocks for biodiesel currently are soybean oil and palm oil and are the feedstocks most susceptible to price risk due to market demand. Factors affecting crop yield and planting decisions include government policies and subsidies with respect to agriculture and international trade, and global and local demand and supply. The significance and relative effect of these factors on the price of feedstock is difficult to predict.

 

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Any event that tends to negatively affect the supply of feedstock, such as increased demand, adverse weather or crop disease, could increase feedstock prices and potentially harm our business. In addition, we may also have difficulty, from time to time, in physically sourcing feedstock on economical terms due to supply shortages. Such a shortage could require us to suspend operations until feedstock is available at economical terms, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, anticipated results of operations and financial condition. The price we pay for feedstock at a facility could increase if an additional multi-feedstock biodiesel production plant is built in the same general vicinity or if alternative uses are found for lower cost feedstock.
Biodiesel fuel is a commodity whose price is determined based in part on the price of petroleum diesel, world demand, supply and other factors, all of which are beyond our control. World prices for biodiesel fuel have fluctuated widely in recent years. We expect that prices will continue to fluctuate in the future. Price fluctuations will have a significant impact upon our revenue, the return on our investment in biodiesel production plants and our general financial condition. Price fluctuations for biodiesel fuel may also impact the investment market and our ability to raise investor capital. Although market prices for biodiesel fuel rose to near-record levels during 2005, there is no assurance that these prices will remain at current levels. Future decreases in the prices of biodiesel or petroleum diesel fuel may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and anticipated results of operations.
Both supply and demand in the United States biodiesel industry are highly dependent upon federal and state legislation.
The production of biodiesel is made significantly more competitive by federal and state tax incentives. The federal excise tax incentive program for biodiesel was originally enacted as part of the JOBS Act but is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2008. This program provides blenders, generally distributors, with a one cent tax credit for each percentage point of virgin vegetable oil-derived biodiesel blended with petroleum diesel. For example, distributors that blend virgin soybean-derived biodiesel with petroleum diesel into a B20 blend biodiesel would receive a 20 cent per gallon excise tax credit. The program also provides blenders of recycled oils, such as yellow grease from restaurants, with a one-half cent tax credit for each percentage point of recycled oil-derived biodiesel blended with petroleum diesel. For example, distributors that blend recycled oil-derived biodiesel with petroleum diesel into a B20 blend biodiesel would receive a 10 cent per gallon excise tax credit. In addition, approximately 31 states provide mandates, programs and other incentives to increase biodiesel production and use, such as mandates for fleet use or for overall use within the state, tax credits, financial grants, tax deductions, financial assistance, tax exemptions and fuel rebate programs. These incentives are meant to lower the end-users’ cost of biodiesel in comparison to petroleum diesel. The elimination or significant reduction in the federal excise tax incentive program or state incentive programs benefiting biodiesel could adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.
Reductions in support of biodiesel from government, consumer or special interest groups could adversely impact our business plan and our anticipated results of operation and financial condition.
Federal and state governments in the United States and governments abroad have implemented incentives and mandates in support of biodiesel. Similarly, there has been support from consumers and special interest groups, such as agricultural and environmental groups. Support has even come from the petroleum industry itself, such as BP’s (formerly known as British Petroleum) “beyond petroleum” marketing campaign, and the automobile industry, such as General Motors’ “live green, go yellow” flex-fuel ethanol marketing campaign. The loss of these incentives, including the failure to renew incentives that terminate, could adversely affect our anticipated results of operations and financial condition.

 

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We may be unable to effectively compete in the biodiesel industry.
In many instances, our competitors and potential competitors have, or will have, substantially greater financial, technical, research, and other resources and larger, more established marketing, sales, distribution, and service organizations than we have. Moreover, competitors may have longer operating histories and greater credit worthiness (i.e., in competing for feedstock) than we have, and competitors may offer discounts as a competitive tactic. Our competitors may succeed in developing or marketing technologies or products that are more effective or commercially attractive than our products, or that would render our technologies and products obsolete. Also, we may not have the financial resources, technical expertise, or marketing, distribution, or support capabilities to compete successfully in the future.
We anticipate that competition for the licensing of biodiesel reactors will come primarily from companies that offer competing novel biodiesel production technologies. To compete effectively in licensing biodiesel production technology, we will need to demonstrate the advantages of our STT® Reactor over well-established, traditional chemical reactors, as well as novel technologies and systems. We will also experience competition from other producers of biodiesel.
Our ability to succeed as a biodiesel production company will depend, to a large extent, on our ability to compete for, and obtain, feedstock, obtaining suitable properties for constructing biodiesel production plants and sales of biodiesel and related products. Competition will likely increase as energy prices on the commodities market, including biodiesel and petrodiesel, rise as they have in recent years. This increased competition may also have an adverse impact on our ability to obtain additional capital from investors.
A substantial reduction in crude petroleum oil prices could have an adverse impact on our contemplated business plan by making biodiesel fuel relatively more expensive compared to petrodiesel. Were such a reduction to occur, it would likely adversely affect our anticipated results of operation and financial condition.
With the current elevated prices compared to historical prices of crude petroleum oil, and by extension, petrodiesel, biodiesel can be produced for a cost that is economically practical when compared to the cost to produce petrodiesel. However, if the price of crude petroleum oil should drop substantially, this could have a material adverse effect on the entire biodiesel industry and us.
Risks Related to Investment in our Common Stock
The public market for our common stock is volatile.
Our common stock is currently quoted for trading on the OTC Bulletin Board and since the closing of our private placement offering in January 2007 the trading price has been volatile. An active public market for the common stock may not be sustained.
The market price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly in response to factors, some of which are beyond our control, including the following:
   
actual or anticipated variations in operating results;
   
the limited number of holders of the common stock, and the limited liquidity available through the OTC Bulletin Board;
   
changes in financial estimates by securities analysts;
   
changes in the economic performance and/or market valuations of other energy companies;
   
the timing and type of financing and related dilution impact on the stockholders;
   
our announcement of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments;
   
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sales or other transactions involving our capital stock;
   
changes in the market for biodiesel fuel commodities or the capital markets generally, or both;
   
changes in the availability of feedstock on commercially economic terms;
   
changes in the demand for biodiesel fuel, including changes resulting from the expansion of other alternative fuels;
   
changes in the social, political and/or legal climate;
   
announcements of technological innovations or new products available to the biodiesel production industry; and/or
   
announcements by relevant domestic and foreign government agencies related to incentives for alternative energy development programs.
We may not be able to attract the attention of major brokerage firms.
Because we have not yet actively commenced business, or because we became public through a “reverse merger,” security analysts of major brokerage firms may not provide coverage of us. Moreover, brokerage firms may not desire to provide financial advisory services or to conduct secondary offerings on our behalf in the future.
Our common stock may be considered “a penny stock” and may be difficult to sell.
The SEC has adopted regulations which generally define “penny stock” to be an equity security that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share or an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to specific exemptions. The market price of our common stock is less than $5.00 per share and therefore may be designated as a “penny stock” according to SEC rules. This designation requires any broker or dealer selling these securities to disclose certain information concerning the transaction, obtain a written agreement from the purchaser and determine that the purchaser is reasonably suitable to purchase the securities. These rules may restrict the ability of brokers or dealers to sell the common stock and may affect the ability of investors to sell their shares. In addition, since the common stock is currently traded on the OTC Bulletin Board, investors may find it difficult to obtain accurate quotations of the common stock and may experience a lack of buyers to purchase such stock or a lack of market makers to support the stock price.
A significant number of our shares will be eligible for sale, and their sale could depress the market price of our common stock.
Sales of a significant number of shares of our common stock in the public market following the effectiveness of a registration statement on Form SB-2 could harm the market price of our common stock. As additional shares of our common stock become available for resale in the public market pursuant to this registration statement and otherwise, the supply of common stock will increase, which could decrease the price of our common stock. Some or all of the shares of common stock not being registered on the registration statement on Form SB-2, may be resold from time to time in the open market pursuant to Rule 144, and these sales may have a depressive effect on the market for our common stock. In general, a person who has held restricted shares for a period of one year may, upon filing with the SEC a notification on Form 144, sell into the market shares of common stock in an amount equal to the greater of 1% of the outstanding shares or the average weekly number of shares sold in the last four weeks prior to such sale. Such sales may be repeated once every three months, and any of the restricted shares may be sold by a non-affiliate after they have been held for two years. Substantially all of the former shareholders of Kreido Laboratories have entered into lock-up agreements pursuant to which they have agree to not sell the company shares issued to them in the Merger for a period of 12 months following the merger date of January 12, 2007.

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Further, the Registration Rights Agreement mandates that if we fail to have the registration statement on Form SB-2 declared effective by the SEC by June 14, 2007, we will have to pay each purchaser of Units such number of Units as liquidated damages equal to five percent of the number of Units held by such purchaser. The total liquidated damages will be ten percent if the registration statement is not declared effective by July 14, 2007 and fifteen percent if the registration statement is not declared effective by August 13, 2007. We will have to pay similar liquidated damages should (i) sales of shares of common stock be unable to be made by purchasers of Units after the effective date of the registration statement under certain circumstances or (ii) if our common stock is not listed or included for quotation on an Approved Market or the trading of our common stock is suspended or halted on an Approved Market for more than two full, consecutive trading days with certain exceptions excusing such events. The issuance of these additional Units will dilute the percentage ownership of our other stockholders and the sale of these additional shares may depress the market price of our common stock. Approved Markets include the NASD Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board, the Nasdaq National Market, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. or the American Stock Exchange, Inc.
Our principal stockholders will have significant voting power and may take actions that may not be in the best interests of other stockholders.
Our officers, directors, principal stockholders, and their affiliates control a significant percentage of the outstanding shares of common stock. If these stockholders act together, they will be able to exert significant control over our management and affairs requiring stockholder approval, including approval of significant corporate transactions. This concentration of ownership may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control and might adversely affect the market price of the common stock. This concentration of ownership may not be in the best interests of all our stockholders.
Investors should not anticipate receiving cash dividends on our common stock.
We have never declared or paid any cash dividends or distributions on our common stock. We currently intend to retain future earnings to support operations and to finance expansion and therefore do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.
We may not be able to continue as a going concern.
Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. We have a history of operating losses that are likely to continue in the future. We have included an explanatory paragraph in Note 3 of our financial statements, to the effect that our significant losses from operations and our dependence on equity financing raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Our financial statements do not include any adjustments that might be necessary should we be unable to continue as a going concern.
Our operations must begin to provide sufficient revenues to improve our working capital position. Additionally, we will require additional capital to construct our planned biodiesel facilities. If we are unable to raise additional capital we may not be able to continue as a going concern.
Item 3. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Our management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of March 31, 2007. Based on this evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of March 31, 2007, our disclosure controls and procedures were (1) designed to ensure that material information relating to us, including our consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to our chief executive officer and chief financial officer by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report was being prepared and (2) effective, in that they provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.

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No change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) occurred during the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2007 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II
Item 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Currently, no legal proceedings, government actions, administrative actions, investigations or claims are pending against us or involve us that, in the opinion of our management, could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition.
Item 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
On January 12, 2007, we closed a private offering of 18,518,519 Units of its securities to 81 accredited investors, as defined under Regulation D, Rule 501(a) promulgated by the SEC, raising an aggregate of $25,000,000 in cash and cancelled indebtedness, each Unit consisting of one share of Common Stock and an investor warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock for a period of five years at an exercise price of $1.85 per share. This offering was exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D as promulgated by the SEC. Each of the investors represented to us that he, she or it was an accredited investor and the reason therefore, that he, she or it received no advertising, article or other general form of solicitation in connection with the offer and sale of the Units. None of the securities were sold through an underwriter and, accordingly, there were no underwriting discounts or commissions involved. We paid placement agent and finder’s fees of 7% of the purchase price of applicable Units to the registered broker-dealers and investment advisors that introduced us to purchasers of those Units.
On January 12, 2007, and in connection with the Merger, the Kreido Laboratories shareholders surrendered all of their issued and outstanding common stock of Kreido Laboratories and received shares of our common stock. Additionally, all of the issued and outstanding options to purchase shares of Kreido Laboratories common stock were exchanged for options to purchase shares of our common stock, and the holders of warrants to purchase 3,705,015 shares of Kreido Laboratories capital stock prior to the Merger converted their shares on a net exercise basis and the remaining warrant holders received new warrants to purchase shares of our common stock in the Merger. We have reserved 571,334 and 1,164,583 shares of our common stock, respectively, for issuance upon exercise of these new warrants and new options. These transactions were exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. None of the securities were sold through an underwriter and accordingly, there were no underwriting discounts or commissions involved.
Item 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None
Item 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
None
Item 5. OTHER INFORMATION
We do not currently have a Nominating Committee of the board of directors of our company. Our board of directors anticipates that our board of directors will consist of five members. Our board of directors is looking for qualified candidates to fill the vacancies on our board of directors. Our directors hold office until the next meeting of the stockholders at which directors are elected, or until the earlier of their death, resignation or removal, or until their successors have been qualified.

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Item 6. EXHIBITS
The following exhibits are either filed herewith or incorporated herein by reference:
         
Exhibit No.   Description   Reference
 
2.1
  Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization, dated as of January 12, 2007, by and among Kreido Biofuels, Inc., a Nevada corporation, Kreido Acquisition Corp., a California corporation and Kreido Laboratories, a California corporation.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
3.1
  Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Kreido Biofuels, Inc. (f/k/a Gemwood Productions, Inc.).   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 3, 2006 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
3.3
  Amended and Restated Bylaws of Kreido Biofuels, Inc.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Annual Report on Form 10-KSB filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
4.1
  Form of Investor Warrant of Kreido Biofuels, Inc.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
4.2
  Form of Lock-Up Agreement by and between Tompkins Capital Group and each of the officers and directors of Kreido Biofuels, Inc., and certain stockholders of Kreido Laboratories.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.1
  Escrow Agreement, dated as of January 12, 2007, by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc., Joel A. Balbien and Gottbetter & Partners, LLP.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.2
  Form of Subscription Agreement, dated as of January 12, 2007, by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and the investors in the Offering.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.3
  Form of Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 12, 2007, by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and the investors in the Offering.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.4
  Split-Off Agreement, dated as of January 12, 2007, by and among Kreido Biofuels, Inc., Victor Manuel Savceda, Kreido Laboratories and Gemwood Leaseco, Inc.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).

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Exhibit No.   Description   Reference
 
10.5
  Employment Agreement, dated November 1, 2006, by and between Kreido Laboratories and Joel A. Balbien.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.6
  Form of Indemnity Agreement by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and Outside Directors of Kreido Biofuels, Inc.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.7
  2006 Equity Incentive Plan.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.8
  Stock Option Agreement by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and Joel A. Balbien dated as of January 12, 2007.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.9
  Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and participants under the 2006 Equity Incentive Plan.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.10
  Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and participants under the 2006 Equity Incentive Plan.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.11
  Employment Agreement, dated March 19, 2007, by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and John M. Philpott.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 23, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.12
  Binding Term Sheet by and between Kreido Labratories and Tompkins Capital Group dated as of September 1, 2006*   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Annual Report on Form 10-KSB filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.13
  Amendment to Binding Term Sheet by and between Kreido Labratories and Tompkins Capital Group dated as of October 25, 2006*   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Annual Report on Form 10-KSB filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.14
  Form of Indemnity Agreement for officers and directors*   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Annual Report on Form 10-KSB filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).

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Exhibit No.   Description   Reference
 
10.15
  Employment Agreement, dated April 4, 2007, by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and Philip Lichtenberger.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 10, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.16
  Employment Agreement, dated April 10, 2007, by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and Alan McGrevy.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 16, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
10.17
  Employment Agreement, dated April 28, 2007, by and between Kreido Biofuels, Inc. and Larry Sullivan.   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2007 (File No. 333-130606).
 
       
31.1
  Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, as required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934*    
 
       
31.2
  Certification of the Chief Financial Officer, as required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934*    
 
       
32.1
  Certification of the Chief Executive Officer provided pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*    
 
       
32.2
  Certification of the Chief Financial Officer provided pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*    
 
*  
Filed herewith

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
         
  KREIDO BIOFUELS, INC.
 
 
  By:             /s/ Joel A. Balbien    
    Joel A. Balbien, CEO and Director   
    (Duly Authorized Officer and
Principal Executive Officer)
 
 
  Date:  May 15, 2007  

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EXHIBIT INDEX

     
Exhibit No.   Description
 
31.1   Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, as required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
   
31.2   Certification of the Chief Financial Officer, as required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
   
32.1   Certification of the Chief Executive Officer provided pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
 
   
32.2   Certification of the Chief Financial Officer provided pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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