OriginClear, Inc. (OriginClear) specializes in providing engineered water treatment solutions and custom treatment systems.
OriginClear structures itself as the Clean Water Innovation Hub (‘CWIB’) and intends to use its well-developed retail investor development capabilities to help bring potentially disruptive companies to market. For the foreseeable future, however, OriginClear intends to devote its entire capabilities to the success of its subsidiary, Water On Demand, Inc. (WODI).
In 2023,...
OriginClear, Inc. (OriginClear) specializes in providing engineered water treatment solutions and custom treatment systems.
OriginClear structures itself as the Clean Water Innovation Hub (‘CWIB’) and intends to use its well-developed retail investor development capabilities to help bring potentially disruptive companies to market. For the foreseeable future, however, OriginClear intends to devote its entire capabilities to the success of its subsidiary, Water On Demand, Inc. (WODI).
In 2023, OriginClear combined three of its operating divisions into the single WODI subsidiary, in the anticipation of a merger of such subsidiary with Fortune Rise Acquisition Corp (‘FRLA’), a special purpose acquisition company.
WODI is composed of three operating units, Modular Water Systems (‘MWS’), Progressive Water Treatment (‘PWT’), and Water on Demand (‘WOD’), the last being a development stage business.
PWT is responsible for a significant percentage of the company’s revenue, specializing in engineered water treatment solutions and custom treatment systems.
MWS houses a worldwide, exclusive master license to the intellectual property of Daniel M. Early, consisting of five patents and related intellectual property, know-how, and trade secrets (‘Early IP’). In April 2023, OriginClear commissioned a valuation of the Early IP. MWS features products differentiated by the Early IP and complemented with additional knowhow and trade secrets.
WOD is an incubation of the company, which intends to offer private businesses water self-sustainability as a service—the ability to pay for water treatment and purification services on a per-gallon basis. This is commonly known as Design-Build-Own-Operate (‘DBOO’).
Water Businesses
The company develops and incubates businesses in its role as the Clean Water Innovation Hub (‘CWIB’).
Water On Demand
The company is developing an outsourced water treatment business called Water On Demand (‘WOD’), which it conducts through its subsidiary, Water on Demand, Inc. (‘WODI’). The WOD model intends to offer private businesses water self-sustainability as a service, the ability to pay for water treatment and purification services on a per-gallon basis, with a percentage of net profits paid to investors and stakeholders. This is commonly known as Design-Build-Own-Operate or ‘DBOO’. The company is evaluating pilot opportunities to enable outsourced water treatment as a managed service, and that is paid by the gallon as an alternative to having to come up with significant up-front capital for in-house wastewater treatment. Recently, the company announced agreements with water services company Enviromaintenance and utility network software provider Klir, to help develop a WOD commercial pilot in the Mobile Home Park sector.
WODI may build, maintain and service the water treatment systems it finances, but as these expand it intends to contract with regional water service companies to carry out these functions. On April 6, 2022, an agreement in principle was reached to work with the first of these intended contractors, Envirogen Technologies (www.envirogen.com), a 30-year international provider of environmental technology and process solutions.
WODI delegates the building and operating of WOD-financed systems to regional water companies under performance contracts, with the aim of developing a network of such partners. This is expected to enable rapid scale-up of the WOD program, and the partner network would create a high barrier to entry for competitors.
On April 9, 2024, the company announced the selection of Klir, Inc. (www.klir.com) to support its planned Water On Demand pilot program focusing on mobile home parks (MHP) in the Greater Central Texas Region.
Progressive Water Treatment Inc.
Progressive Water Treatment (‘PWT’) is a Dallas-based designer, builder, and service provider for a wide range of industrial water treatment applications. PWT aims to offer a complementary, end-to-end offering to serve growing corporate demand for outsourced water treatment.
PWT designs and manufactures a complete line of water treatment systems for municipal, industrial, and pure water applications. Its uniqueness is its ability to gain an in-depth understanding of customers’ needs and then to design and build a turnkey water treatment system using multiple technologies to provide a complete solution for its customers.
PWT utilizes a wide range of technologies, including chemical injection, media filters, membrane, ion exchange, and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) technology in turnkey systems. PWT also offers a broad range of services, including maintenance contracts, retrofits, and replacement assistance. In addition, PWT rents equipment in contracts of varying duration. Customers are primarily served in the United States and Canada, with the company’s reach extending worldwide from Siberia to Argentina to the Middle East.
Modular Water Systems
Modular Water Systems (‘MWS’) offers a unique product line of prefabricated water transport and treatment systems.
With PWT and other companies as fabricators and assemblers, MWS designs, manufactures, and delivers prefabricated water transport (pump and lift stations) under the EveraMOD brand, and wastewater treatment plant (‘WWTP’) products under the EveraSKID and EveraTREAT brands to customers and end-users, which are required to clean their own wastewater, such as schools, small communities, institutional facilities, real estate developments, factories, and industrial parks.
On August 12, 2022, the company announced the inaugural delivery and installation of its pre-engineered EveraBOX to implement a low-risk Liquid Ammonium Sulfate (LAS) disinfectant system for Pennsylvania’s Beaver Falls Municipal Water Authority (BFMA). Typical of MWS products, EveraBOX is manufactured using inexpensive, long-lasting High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) or Polypropylene (PP) materials. These are also classified as Structural Reinforced Thermoplastic Pipe (SRTP).
On January 10, 2024, the company and Buda, Texas-based Plastic Welding and Fabrication, Ltd. (PWF) jointly announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a strategic partnership between OriginClear’s subsidiary, Water On Demand, Inc. (‘WODI’), and PWF.
PWF is already a key fabricator of highly durable, patent-based enclosures for Modular Water Systems (MWS), the technology division of WODI that designs and develops highly scalable systems for self-contained water treatment and transportation. The MOU enhances the strategic relationship and enables MWS to build its complete water systems right where the enclosures are manufactured, for maximum efficiency and speed.
Additionally, the parties signed a Letter of Intent (LOI), which provides a framework for negotiating a definitive agreement for WODI to acquire PWF, and if executed, would establish the first in-house manufacturing facility for WODI’s Modular Water Systems division. The acquisition is expected to be accretive. The parties caution that talks are in an early stage and may not succeed.
On March 26, 2024, the company announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Modular Water Systems (MWS) and Enviromaintenance of Georgetown, TX, to collaborate on sales of standardized systems in the Greater Central Texas Region, from Waco to San Antonio. Enviromaintenance (www.enviromaintenance.com) is a leading provider of large community-scale on-site wastewater treatment and disposal systems, with a significant market presence in the Mobile Home Park (MHP) industry in the greater Austin area.
Patents and Intellectual Property
On June 25, 2018, Dan Early granted the company a worldwide, exclusive non-transferable license to intellectual property consisting of five issued U.S. patents, and design software, CAD, marketing, design, and specification documents (‘Early IP’).
On May 20, 2020, the company agreed on a renewal of the license for an additional ten years, with three-year extensions. The company also gained the right to sublicense, and with approval, to create ISO-compliant manufacturing joint ventures.
The license to the Early IP was included as part of the sale of the MWS assets to WODI on April 14, 2023.
The Early IP consists of combined protection on the materials and configurations of complete packaged water treatment systems, built into containers.
On May 10, 2021, OriginClear had filed a patent application titled ‘System And Method For Water Treatment Incentive’, for using blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFT) to simplify the distribution of payments on outsourced water treatment and purification services billed on a pay-per-gallon basis ahead of inflation.
In addition, Patent No. 8,372,274 relates to the use of vessels or containers made out of this material combined with a configuration of functional modules, or process, for general water treatment.
Patent Nos. 8,561,633 and 8,871,089 are expired, however these may be reinstated. Patent No. 8,561,633 is a stormwater filtration patent that does not pertain to the MWS business model. Patent No. 8,871,089 is a Continuation-in-Part (CIP) on the original Patent No. 8,372,274. This original patent and Patent No. 9,217,244 are the basis for the MWS business, and therefore the status of the CIP is not considered material.
Products, Technology and Services
The company provides on-premise systems enabling very high purification and recycling levels that centralized systems cannot achieve. Systems installed at the point of use become productive assets for businesses that also increase property values. Furthermore, the company’s products help corporations improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) standings with water management services.
The company deploys advanced technologies at the point of use, with modular, prefabricated systems that create durable assets and water independence for industry, commerce and agriculture.
Product Portfolio
The company groups its products into three main categories, which fall under its separate business divisions:
Water Treatment—achieving high-grade purification;
Water Conveyance—water transportation and pumping;
Advanced Technologies—the commercialization of innovative technologies; and
Pay as you go financing for water treatment.
The company’s complete line of compact, on-site, point-of-use products includes advanced purification systems that are skid, rack-mounted, and containerized for reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, media filtration, disinfection, water softening, ion exchange, and electrodeionization (EDI), combined as needed in small to medium commercial and industrial applications, and custom-build projects. Water conveyance products include pump and lifting stations, modular storage tanks, and control monitoring panels.
The company’s line of modular water products and systems create ‘instant infrastructure’ – fully engineered, prefabricated and prepackaged systems that use durable, sophisticated materials. The units are available in standard capacities for onsite closed-loop systems at commercial business locations.
The company’s rugged wastewater treatment plants, highly reliable pump stations, and premium water purification units typically offer 25 percent lower initial costs over conventional systems, with greater quality and full connectivity. These pump stations and wastewater treatment products utilize high-density thermoplastics (HDPE) and proprietary, innovative prefabrication methods and materials that deliver the longest life and strongest products.
Operations & Markets
The company focuses on meeting the needs of businesses looking for compact, advanced water treatment technologies that can be shipped to and installed at the point of use. The company manufactures and distributes its professional-grade water treatment and conveyance products to commercial and industrial customers, fielding both direct and indirect sales channels to reach end-market clients such as hotels and resorts, real estate housing developments, office buildings, military installations, schools, farms, food and beverage manufacturers, industrial warehouse, oil and gas producers, and medical and pharmaceutical facilities.
The company designs and prefabricates an entire line of turnkey containerized units under the Modular Water Systems brand, that enable water conveyance, purification, recycling and wastewater management. The units are assembled at contract locations, typically where the high density polyurethane (HDPE) casings are molded.
These onsite modular products provide clients with water independence through ownership and operational control over water quality, enabling them to increase productivity while reducing environmental, health and safety risks from pollution, contamination and corrosion. A similar benefit is achieved with the company's pump station products.
Modular water products are trusted to balance performance with cost-effectiveness, enabling business users to go well beyond municipal standards for water quality, therefore achieving high levels of satisfaction for their own customers, and improved sustainability for their properties.
The company’s water treatment equipment can boost real estate asset value as a fundamental capital improvement, combined with long-lasting water savings for the corporate bottom line.
Customers
PWT has designed and fabricated water treatment systems for over twenty years. Major markets include potable water for small communities; recirculated and makeup boiler and cooling tower water; produced water & frac flowback water; food and beverage feed and effluent waters; mining effluent; ground water recovery; agriculture effluent; and environmental water treatment for reuse.
Describing the water and wastewater treatment market as a pyramid, the company puts the major cities at the top of the pyramid, medium size cities in the middle and smaller towns, counties, cities, townships, state agencies, federal agencies, private individuals, commercial entities, industrial facilities, agriculture facilities at the base of the pyramid.
Sales and Marketing
PWT’s sales strategy differs from MWS’s efforts. PWT sales are dependent upon relationships with past end-use customers and certain manufacturers’ representatives who have relationships with their regional end-use customers. MWS’s sales strategy is based on developing relationships with consulting engineers and general contractors, as opposed to end-use customers.
As MWS sales strategies develop, PWT will gain recognition with various consulting engineers and general contractors. PWT and MWS are developing a stronger national representatives network to take advantage of the relationships the sales representatives have gained with engineers, contractors, and end-use customers.
PWT and MWS have substantial experience in the water & wastewater market, as well as conventional technologies and their limitations, new technologies, the size and demand of the market, and how products are specified and implemented. They also have a strong customer focus throughout the organization to discover and diagnose customer needs, design, and deliver comprehensive solutions.
Most product lines for each of PWT and MWS are considered ‘pipeline’ products and have a gestational period of 6 months to 3 years. The best strategy to increase the pipeline of opportunities is to have more sales reps with relationships with engineers, contractors and end users.
$H2O
On May 10, 2021, OriginClear filed a patent application for its “System And Method For Water Treatment Incentive”, which includes blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (“NFT(s)”) to simplify the distribution of payments on outsourced water treatment and purification services billed on a pay-per-gallon basis ahead of inflation, or Water On Demand.
On May 16, 2021, the company applied for a registered trademark for the mark $H2O (also referred to as H2O) as the blockchain system representing this activity. The current filing basis is “Intent-to-use basis” (under Trademark Act Section 1(b)).
Intellectual Property
With the spinoff of Water On Demand Inc and its operating divisions, the company holds no patents directly, but indirectly has access to the licensed patents through MWS. The licensed intellectual property consists of five issued U.S. patents, and design software, CAD, marketing, design, and specification documents.
On May 10, 2021, the company announced that it filed ‘System And Method For Water Treatment Incentive’, a patent application for using blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFT) to simplify the distribution of payments on outsourced water treatment and purification services billed on a pay-per-gallon basis ahead of inflation. The application status is provisional.
The ORIGINCLEAR trademark application has newly registered as US Trademark Registration 7,296,730 issued on February 6, 2024. The ORIGINCLEAR logo trademark application has registered as US Trademark Registration 7,296,731 issued on February 6, 2024.
Other trademarks in the process of registration include:
Trademarks: $H2O, WATERPRENEUR, CLEARAQUA, THE WATER COIN FOR THE WORLD, WATER - THE BLUE GOLD, and THE CLEAN WATER INNOVATION HUB.
History
The company was founded in 2007. The company was incorporated in the state of Nevada in 2007. It was formerly known as OriginOil, Inc. and changed its name to OriginClear, Inc. in 2015.
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