PCT LTD focuses its business on acquiring, developing and providing sustainable, environmentally safe disinfecting, cleaning and tracking technologies.
The company acquires and holds rights to products and technologies, which are commercialized through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, Paradigm Convergence Technologies Corporation (PCT Corp. or Paradigm). PCT Corp. is a technology development, design, assembly and manufacturing company specializing in providing cleaning/sanitizing/disinfec...
PCT LTD focuses its business on acquiring, developing and providing sustainable, environmentally safe disinfecting, cleaning and tracking technologies.
The company acquires and holds rights to products and technologies, which are commercialized through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, Paradigm Convergence Technologies Corporation (PCT Corp. or Paradigm). PCT Corp. is a technology development, design, assembly and manufacturing company specializing in providing cleaning/sanitizing/disinfectant fluid solutions and fluid-generating equipment that create environmentally safe solutions for global sustainability. PCT Corp. markets new products and technologies for the healthcare, agriculture, oil and gas and other industries through multiyear system and service contracts that provide equipment and support for its customers.
The company holds and defends its patents, trademarks, intellectual property and distribution rights to its products and technologies.
PCT Corp. has developed several models of electrochemical activation generators and systems for the production of Hydrolyte, an EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) registered, sanitizer/disinfectant microbiocide that is environmentally responsible and for use around humans and animals. Hydrolyte is market tested with commercial customers and is fully launched into the hospital and healthcare market. The company intends to focus on leveraging the opportunities presented by Hydrolyte during 2021 within the healthcare market, as well as building into its oil and gas and agriculture markets.
During 2020, PCT Corp.’s distribution network was expanded throughout the United States, including Puerto Rico, as well as into the United Kingdom. A distributor-focused website was launched (www.pctcorporation.com) to build the company’s Hydrolyte brand and promote fluid sales.
In building out the company’s production capabilities, PCT Corp. developed strategic operating relationships with firms that are leaders in production, manufacturing and distribution within the various industries where the markets for its technologies exist.
Disruptive Oil and Gas Technologies Corp
In July 2021, the company incorporated a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Disruptive Oil and Gas Technologies Corp (Disruptive O&G), in the State of Nevada. Disruptive O&G is formed to allow the company flexibility in operations dealing with the oil and gas industry. As of December 31, 2021, Disruptive O&G had not commenced operations.
In October 2021, the company entered into a contribution agreement (the ‘Contribution Agreement’) among Nano Gas Technologies, Inc. (Nano Gas), NGT Energy Inc, Pentagon Technical Services, Inc. (Pentagon) and Disruptive O&G. Pursuant to the Contribution Agreement, Nano Gas assigned a patent, titled ‘Nanobubble Dispersions in Electrochemically Activated Solutions’, to Disruptive O&G in return for a 46.25% ownership interest in the entity and Pentagon was issued a 7.5% ownership interest in the entity for services.
Technologies Development Corp
In July 2021, the company incorporated a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Technologies Development Corp (TDC), in the State of Nevada. TDC was formed in anticipation of expanding the company’s operations through the development of additional technologies, joint venturing with industry partners or other purposes as determined by management. As of December 31, 2021, TDC was inactive; however, subsequent to year-end, TDC has located a company with unique technology and is in discussions to structure a potential transaction in the second quarter of 2022.
Principal Technology: Hydrolyte and PCT Catholyte
Paradigm’s generator systems make two products in the cleansers, hard-surface sanitizers, and disinfectants categories:
Hydrolyte U.S. EPA Registration No. 92108-1 is a hard-surface sanitizer and/or disinfectant with the lowest EPA toxicity rating possible (4); and
PCT Catholyte, a similarly safe, mild detergent, degreaser and surfactant that is applied using mop buckets, sprayers and floor cleaning machines for basic janitorial cleaning purposes.
Both products are outputs of a single process of electrochemical activation (ECA) generation process using the company’s technology and input ingredients derived from naturally occurring salt minerals and water. Commercially, the primary product is Hydrolyte, and the second product of the process, Catholyte, is a product for which parallel markets exist and profitable revenue streams are being developed.
The company had two registrations of Hydrolyte with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during 2019 but retained only the Registration (92108-1) at the end of 2019, having sold the duplicate registration to a third-party entity. Hypochlorous acid- (HOCl-) based solutions, such as Hydrolyte are approved for specific uses and with specific directions by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for cleaning and sanitizing applications and by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for use in food processing. These ‘approvals’ are covered in various Federal Codes.
By nature, Hydrolyte is a metastable, aqueous solution of hypochlorous acid generated through the electrochemical activation (ECA) process. It has a high redox potential (900 millivolts) and a biocidal effect than chlorine and other toxic chemicals. Hydrolyte is 99.5% water + salt rendering it of less concern to humans; yet, it is effective against the various classes of pathogens comprising bacteria, viruses, spores and yeast. In March 2020, the company became sanctioned to use the U.S. EPA’s ‘emerging viral pathogens claim’, which assisted its commercialization efforts to provide Hydrolyte to many distributors.
This company’s proprietary production, distribution and applications technologies have solved these problems. Its production equipment allows the Hydrolyte solution to be produced with specific, predetermined concentration of HOCl within the range of concentrations typically employed (50 to 600 Parts Per Million (PPM)), as well as the desired pH level (the pH scale measures how acidic or Alkaline a substance is) that may be desirable for any given application.
Production
Hydrolyte is generated with the company’s proprietary equipment. The production technology for Hydrolyte generates a product with predetermined PPM and pH properties, i.e., the equipment can be calibrated to deliver any desired PPM level. The scalable Hydrolyte generation systems technology will be housed in portable and mobile units, which can be moved within a building or from site to site, although more permanent installations, probably employing larger generation systems, will be made in situations where such installation is appropriate or required. The company’s models of Hydrolyte generator equipment is classified, dependent upon configuration and volume of output: Annihilyzer Infection Control System – Hospital/Healthcare, Annihilyzer Infection Control System – Rack Model, Hydrolyte Generator – Large and Medium Volume, SurvivaLyte Manual Generator – Small Volume, Annihilyzer Hospital 360 SMART Spray Cart, and School/Hospitality Industry and General Business 360 SMART Utility Cart.
Other models and newer generations of the Annihilyzer Infection Control System and Hydrolyte generating equipment are in research and development.
Markets
The primary applications for the Hydrolyte technology are in cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting in a variety of market sectors and settings, including:
Institutional facilities, such as hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, correctional facilities and schools;
The agriculture industry for pre- and post-harvest disinfection of crops, sanitization in food processing, and certain applications in animal husbandry;
The oil and gas industry where Hydrolyte can provide a process to disinfect water used in hydraulic fracking processes (‘frac water’) and to kill sulfate reducing bacteria in ‘sour’ oil and gas wells; and catholyte can be used to clean equipment and aid in product recovery when applied ‘down hole’; and
Other potential market opportunities are available, e.g., disinfecting and sanitizing of water in public and private water systems and industrial waste-water systems.
Institutional Facilities: Hospitals, Health Care Facilities and Schools
PCT Corp. has developed various models of equipment to be deployed as an integrated product dispensing, tracking (patented RFID (radio-frequency identification) tracking features) and management systems for applications in the institutional facilities market. This integrated technologies solution, branded as PCT Corp.’s Annihilyzer Infection Control System, has been designed primarily for hospitals, large long-term care, assisted living and nursing home facilities. In various configurations (utilizing a rack model), it could be deployed in other health care facilities, including urgent care centers, medical, dental and veterinary offices. It is adaptable to deployment in schools, prisons, hotels, and various other facilities, although the primary marketing and sales goal for PCT Corp. remains with the hospital market. A complete and custom turn-key cleaning and disinfection program solution could be provided to each facility.
At the physical core of the Annihilyzer System is PCT Corp.’s on-site generation equipment, housed in the Annihilyzer Filling Station (the Hydrolyte generating portion of the equipment), also containing the company’s patented tracking system, managed disbursement and bottling system for fluid production, containerization and use. Spray bottles and other containers are labeled when filled or refilled with product identification and date of production using printed labels and radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. Reading these labels and tags before use assures that the correct and ‘fresh’ product is always being used. Each room is also given an RFID tag. By reading the RFID room tags with a mobile app in a Mobile Data Terminal (ruggedized smartphone), the system tracks what is cleaned and disinfected, when, with what product, and by whom. The station is Wi-Fi connected to smartphones, so it could receive and store all of the data collected. The data could be used to generate a complete record of all cleaning, disinfecting and sanitizing activity, including personnel time and task data.
The company created and offers a proprietary automated electrostatic spray cart for use in hospital (or hospitality-industry) settings, allowing for disinfecting of rooms once a patient (guest) has vacated the room.
PCT Corp. deploys its on-site production equipment under service contracts, charging an installation and set-up fee followed by monthly contract fees (some pricing models might include, or might be based on, a price per gallon of product used), over a contract period of approximately 3 – 5 years. The equipment is deployed and maintained through PCT Corp.’s personnel at first, then through specially-trained distributors. The company is exploring the use of licensed commercial services companies to provide the future on-site support, as required. The product generators and other components of the on-site systems are monitored remotely by a PCT Corp. equipment specialist(s), but the company is considering contracting with a monitoring company that provides expertise in remote monitoring and response systems.
Agricultural Antimicrobial Pesticide
In the agricultural sector, the company’s microbicide is branded as ‘Hydrolyte Green’. The company’s testing and field trials continue to indicate that it could provide pre-harvest disinfection and decontamination solutions for any number of field crops that are affected by various bacterial and fungal pathogens. Through USDA grants and multiple studies by universities worldwide, hypochlorous acid solutions have been tested and proven effective in post-harvest applications to include sanitizing at point of harvest, point of packing, and points of sale.
PCT Corp.’s agricultural research program continued throughout 2019 and is intended to support a continuous rollout of scientifically tested and certified applications for the treatment and prevention of various specific microbial infestations of various crops. This research activity is expected to capture the test data required for regulatory approvals, and market acceptance of, the specific uses for the specific crops. During 2018, the company executed a distribution and license agreement with an agricultural chemical specialty company and is involved in additional field trials of Hydrolyte Green.
Intellectual Property
In 2016, Paradigm acquired an EPA sub-registration (#82341-1-92108), which provides for entry into the facilities and agricultural markets. The company is pursuing sales under this registration and label. In addition, the company has registered its products in several states, under its U.S. EPA No. 92108-1.
In 2017, the company entered into a Registration Transfer Agreement (‘Transfer Agreement’) and a Data License and Assignment Agreement (Data Agreement) with a third party. Pursuant to the Transfer Agreement, the company received the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Registration number 82341-4 for Excelyte VET.
In 2017, Paradigm acquired the complete intellectual property, including know-how, trade secrets and patent rights to the hardware, firmware and software comprising the product inventory generation, disbursement, containerization, tracking and reporting system, trademarked as the Annihilyzer System. The Annihilyzer System is designed to be employed on-site in healthcare facilities. The company already owns IP rights in the generation system employed in this integrated technology system.
The company has developed proprietary know-how related to the electrolytic cells and systems that generate its Hydrolyte and Catholyte products. Paradigm continues, through its research and development program, to perfect the production innovation, know-how, trade secrets and patentable innovations incorporated into the improved production, inventory management and reporting systems. Current focus is on customizing system and equipment design to suite the production parameters and conditions in various specific venues and applications, e.g., agricultural field setting vs. packing house or oil and gas field.
In 2018, the company entered into an agreement to purchase the original U.S. EPA Registration No. 83241-1 for EcaFlo Anolyte. The company continued to make installment payments to complete the purchase of this label and, during 2019, sold the rights to this registration to a third-party for a price that included the remaining portion of the registration that the company had not yet paid to the owner, thus completing the transaction and conveying the registration to the new owner.
Research and Development
PCT Corp.’s research and development costs for the year ended 2021 were $38,630.
History
The company, a Nevada corporation, was founded in 1986. It was incorporated in 1986. The company was formerly known as Bingham Canyon Corporation and changed its name to PCT LTD in 2018.
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