Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.
Effective September 6, 2022 (the "Closing Date") Enviro Technologies U.S., Inc.
(the "Company" or "Enviro") completed a Share Exchange Agreement (the "Closing")
with Banner Midstream Corp., a Delaware corporation ("Banner Midstream") and
Ecoark Holdings, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("Ecoark") and the sole shareholder
of Banner Midstream (the "Agreement"). On the Closing Date Enviro acquired 100%
of the issued and outstanding shares of Banner Midstream in exchange for
12,996,958 shares of the Company's common stock (the "Exchange"). Effective on
the Closing Date, Banner Midstream is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.
Immediately following the Closing Ecoark owns approximately 70% of the issued
and outstanding shares of Enviro common stock. Ecoark is quoted on the Nasdaq
Capital Market under the symbol "ZEST".
On the Closing Date all intercompany balances owed by Banner Midstream to Ecoark
were eliminated. Furthermore, pursuant to the Agreement (i) on August 23, 2022,
Enviro issued John A. DiBella and Raynard Veldman 6% unsecured convertible
promissory notes in the principal amount of $815,565 and $90,000, respectively,
convertible at the option of the holder at $0.06 per share, with a maturity date
of 12 months from the Closing Date in satisfaction all of their accrued payroll
and Mr. Veldman's advances to Enviro (the "Payroll Notes"), and (ii) on the
Closing Date Enviro issued John A. DiBella a 6% unsecured promissory note in the
principal amount of $139,000, with a maturity date of three months from the
Closing Date in satisfaction of Mr. DiBella's advances to Enviro (the "Short
Term Note").
Banner Midstream has two operating subsidiaries: Pinnacle Frac Transport LLC
("Pinnacle Frac") and Capstone Equipment Leasing LLC ("Capstone"). Pinnacle Frac
provides transportation of frac sand and logistics services to major hydraulic
fracturing and drilling operations. Capstone procures and finances equipment to
oilfield transportation service contractors.
Pinnacle Frac provides transportation of frac sand and logistics services to
major hydraulic fracturing and drilling operations. Its transportation services
entail using third party drivers who assist in transporting sand and related
materials to customers' locations for the customers' hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking. The logistics services Pinnacle Frac provides for its customers'
fracking and drilling enterprises, include the operation of a 24/7 dispatch
service center based in Texas through which Banner Midstream dispatches the
trucks for hauling frac sand and related equipment. Pinnacle Frac uses
independent third party owner-operators of trucks to service its customers in
their fracking operations by transporting materials, mainly frac sand. Its
transportation and logistics services operations are primarily centered in the
Southern United States, although Banner Midstream also occasionally services
fracking operations in the Northeastern United States.
Pinnacle Frac uses a third party's licensed software known as "Sandbox" to
monitor and execute its transportation and logistics operations. Use of this
service offers the following benefits for customers and other industry
participants: reduced road traffic; reduced personnel on frac site; and
eliminate silica dust particles.
By operating a call center and using specialized licensed software to meet
customers' demand for timely delivery and movement of fracking materials,
Pinnacle Frac facilitates customers' fracking operations through the life cycle
of the drilling process.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process that creates fractures extending
from the well bore into the rock formation to enable natural gas or oil
contained in the rock to move more easily from the rock pores to a production
conduit, or an opening at the surface designed to allow for extraction of the
energy resource. The hydraulic fracturing technique is used to enable the
extraction of natural gas or oil from shale and other forms of "tight" rock, or
in other words, impermeable rock formations that lock in oil and gas and make
fossil fuel production difficult. The process entails blasting water, chemicals,
and sand into these formations at pressures high enough to crack the rock in
which the targeted resources is embedded, allowing the once-trapped gas and oil
to flow to the surface.
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Because the process is highly reliant on an ample supply of sand and other
materials, Pinnacle Frac capitalizes on this demand by helping its customers
timely supply the materials to the drilling site in sufficient quantities to
complete the process. Banner Midstream's customers consist of oil and gas
drilling to which Banner Midstream may be the prime contractor, and third party
. . .
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
The information contained above in Item 1.01 is hereby incorporated by reference
into this Item 2.03. The description of the Payroll Notes and Short Term Note
does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to
the full text of the Payroll Notes, which are filed as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit
10.2 to the Company's Form 8-K Current Report filed on August 29, 2022 and full
text of the Short Term Note which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to this report.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities.
The information contained above in Item 1.01 is hereby incorporated by reference
into this Item 3.02. The issuance of the 12,996,958 shares of the Company's
common stock described above is exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2)
as promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, as transactions by an issuer not involving any public
offering.
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
At the Closing, the Board of Directors of Enviro fixed the number of directors
of Enviro at four and appointed Jimmy R. Galla and Jimmy "JD" Reedy, two
individuals designated by Banner Midstream, to serve on the Board of Directors.
As such time as Enviro complies with Section 14(f) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and Rule 14f-1 thereunder, Raynard Veldman and John A. DiBella, the
Enviro directors prior to the Closing, shall resign. On the Closing Date, John
A. DiBella, the sole officer of Enviro tendered his resignation as the sole
officer of Enviro, and the Board of Directors of Enviro appointed Jimmy Galla as
Enviro's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Jim Galla
currently serves as Chief Accounting Officer of Ecoark. Jay Puchir, the Chief
Financial Officer of Ecoark, currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and
President of Banner Midstream. JD Reedy currently serves as Chief Operating
Officer of Banner Midstream. Mr. DiBella continues to serve as the sole officer
of Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company
and Banner Midstream and Mr. DiBella will use their best efforts to enter into a
mutually agreed upon advisor agreement. Biographical information for the new
officers,directors and key management appointed pursuant to the Exchange are as
follows:
Name Age Position(s)
Jimmy R. Galla 55 Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and
Director
Jimmy "JD" Reedy 53 Director and Chief Operating Officer of Banner
Midstream
Jay Puchir 46 Chief Executive Officer and President of Banner
Midstream
Jimmy R. Galla has served as Ecoark's Chief Accounting Officer since October 22,
2020. He had previously served as the Ecoark's Director of Financial Reporting
since July 20, 2020, and prior to that he served as an accounting consultant to
Ecoark from January 2017 to March 2020. From October 2017 to July 2020, Mr.
Galla served as VP, Financial Accounting Lead Analyst, Deputy Controller
Department of Citibank, Inc.
Jimmy "JD" Reedy has served as Chief Operating Officer of Banner Midstream since
April 2019. During the two years prior to that he was VP of Sales for its
predecessor.
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Jay Puchir has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Ecoark since April 12,
2022 and Treasurer of Ecoark since October 22, 2020. Mr. Puchir has also served
as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Banner Midstream since its
formation in April 2018. He previously was Chief Financial Officer of Agora
Digital Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Ecoark, from September 2021 to April
2022. Mr. Puchir served in various roles as an executive at Ecoark including
Director of Finance from December 2016 to March 2017, Chief Executive Officer
from March 2017 to October 2017, Chief Financial Officer from October 2017 to
May 2018 and Chief Accounting Officer from March 2020 to October 2020. He served
as Chief Executive Officer of Banner Energy Services Corp. from November 2019 to
August 2020 and as Chairman from February 2020 to August 2020. Mr. Puchir is a
licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of South Carolina.
Mr. Puchir entered into a three-year employment agreement with Banner Midstream
which expires in March 2023. He receives an annual base salary of $280,000 which
was increased by the Board from the initial base salary of $180,000. Under his
employment agreement, Mr. Puchir also received 50,000 stock options and is
entitled to receive an annual bonus of up to 30% of his annual base salary based
on based on performance criteria established by the board of Ecoark. Pursuant to
Mr. Puchir's employment agreement, in the event of termination by Banner
Midstream without "cause," or resignation for "good reason," Mr. Puchir is
entitled to receive an amount of base salary for the longer of (i) the remainder
of the applicable term, and (ii) three months, and a lump sum cash payment equal
to six times the "applicable percentage" of his monthly COBRA premium cost.
Generally, "good reason" is defined as (i) a material reduction of Mr. Puchir's
annual base salary (which must be by at least 20% in order to constitute a
material reduction), or (ii) a material breach of the terms of the employment
agreement by Banner Midstream. The foregoing description of the employment
agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by
reference to the full text of the Employment Agreement, which is filed as
Exhibit 10.4 to this report.
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
On September 6, 2022, Ecoark and the Company issued a press release announcing
the signing of the Agreement. A copy of this press release is furnished as
Exhibit 99.1 to this report. Pursuant to General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K,
the information in this Item 7.01 of Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1, is being
furnished and shall not be deemed "filed" for the purposes of Section 18 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or otherwise be subject to the liabilities of
that section, nor is it incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company
under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, whether
made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation
language in such filing.
Item 9.01. Financial Statement and Exhibits.
(a) Financial statements of business acquired.
The financial statements required in connection with the closing of the
Agreement pursuant to Rule 8-04(b) of Regulation S-X will be filed by amendment
to this report within the time prescribed pursuant to Item 9.01(a) of Form 8-K.
(b) Pro forma financial information.
The financial statements required in connection with the closing of the
Agreement pursuant to Rule 8-04(b) of Regulation S-X will be filed by amendment
to this report within the time prescribed pursuant to Item 9.01(a) of Form 8-K.
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(d) Exhibits.
Incorporated by Reference Filed or
Furnished
No. Exhibit Description Form Date Filed Number Herewith
2.1 Share Exchange Agreement dated August 23, 8-K 8/29/2022 2.1
2022 by and among Enviro Technologies U.S.,
Inc., Banner Midstream Corp. and Ecoark
Holdings, Inc.*
10.1 6% Unsecured Convertible Promissory Note 8-K 8/29/2022 10.1
dated August 23, 2022 payable to John A.
DiBella
10.2 6% Unsecured Convertible Promissory Note 8-K 8/29/2022 10.2
dated August 23, 2022 payable to Raynard
Veldman
10.3 6% Unsecured Promissory Note effective Filed
September 6, 2022 payable to John A. DiBella
10.4 Employment Agreement dated March 27, 2020 by Filed
and between Banner Midstream Corp. and Jay
Puchir+
99.1 Press release dated September 6, 2022 Furnished
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded
within the Inline XBRL document)
* Certain schedules and other attachments have been omitted. The Company
undertakes to furnish the omitted schedules and attachments to the Securities
and Exchange Commission upon request.
+ Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
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