MagneGas Completes $556,000 Financing
Transaction Completed to Clear Accrued Financing Costs
Without Consuming Growth Driven Working Capital
TAMPA, Fla., June 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MagneGas Corporation ("MagneGas" or the "Company")(NASDAQ:MNGA), a leading clean technology company in the renewable resources and environmental solutions industries, announced today that it has completed a $556,000 convertible preferred offering with its investment banking partners to clear accrued financing expenses. The terms of this transaction were disclosed in an 8-K filing dated June 28, 2019.
“We are pleased to complete this transaction,” commented Ermanno Santilli, Chief Executive Officer of MagneGas. “We appreciate the flexibility demonstrated by our banking partners during our rapid growth, and their support has been an integral part of our ability to execute on a series of acquisitions to expand our industrial gas footprint across Texas and California in this year. Our growth strategy has resulted in rapid sales growth of over $1.0 million in monthly averaged for the second quarter of 2018.”
“This was a very opportunistic, targeted financing designed to clear a sizable liability while preserving our working capital liquidity,” commented Scott Mahoney, Chief Financial Officer. “We remain highly focused on generating improved cash flows, enhancing liquidity, and reducing our liabilities. This transaction enabled us to make meaningful progress on all three of these fronts.”
About MagneGas Corporation
MagneGas Corporation (MNGA) owns a patented process that converts various renewables and liquid wastes into MagneGas® fuels. These fuels can be used as an alternative to natural gas or for metal cutting. The Company's testing has shown that its metal cutting fuel “MagneGas2®” is faster, cleaner and more productive than other alternatives on the market. It is also cost effective and safe to use with little changeover costs. The Company currently sells MagneGas2® into the metal working market as a replacement to acetylene.
The Company also sells equipment for the sterilization of bio-contaminated liquid waste for various industrial and agricultural markets. In addition, the Company is developing a variety of ancillary uses for MagneGas® fuels utilizing its high flame temperature for co-combustion of hydrocarbon fuels and other advanced applications. For more information on MagneGas, please visit the Company's website at http://www.MagneGas.com.
The Company distributes MagneGas2® through Independent Distributors in the U.S and through its wholly owned distributors, ESSI, Green Arc Supply, Trico Welding Supply and Complete Welding of San Diego. ESSI has 3 locations in Florida, Green Arc 2 locations in Texas and one location in Louisiana, Trico has two locations in northern California, and Complete Welding has one location in southern California. For more information on ESSI, please visit the company’s website at http://www.weldingsupplytampa.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined within Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements relate to future events, including our ability to raise capital, or to our future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Any forward-looking statement reflects our current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
For a discussion of these risks and uncertainties, please see our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Our public filings with the SEC are available from commercial document retrieval services and at the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.
Investor Contacts:
Tirth Patel
Edison Advisors
T: 646-653-7035
tpatel@edisongroup.com
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