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 American Nano Silicon (OTC BB:ANNO)

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Comments & Business Outlook
 
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
 
AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
 
(Unaudited)
 
                         
   
For the Three Months Ended
 
For the Six Months Ended
 
   
March 31,
 
March 31,
       
   
2012
   
2011
   
2012
   
2011
 
                         
                         
Revenues
  $ 16,505     $ 6,265,556     $ 16,505       12,194,992  
                                 
Cost of Goods Sold
    14,555       4,749,509       14,555       9,208,068  
                                 
Gross Profit
    1,950       1,516,047       1,950       2,986,924  
                                 
Operating Expenses
                               
Research and development expense
    17,508       -       96,182       -  
Selling, general and administrative
    370,426       159,149       783,718       330,132  
                                 
Income (loss) from operations
    (385,984 )     1,356,898       (877,950 )     2,656,792  
                                 
Other Income and Expense
                               
Interest expense, net
    (187,907 )     (8,215 )     (270,059 )     (16,380 )
Change of fair value of derivative liabilities
    (352,959 )     (623,963 )     5,150       860,433  
Total other income (expense)
    (540,866 )     (632,178 )     (264,909 )     844,053  
                                 
Income (Loss)  Before  Income Taxes
    (926,850 )     724,720       (1,142,859 )     3,500,845  
                                 
Provision for Income Taxes
    -       202,900       -       396,060  
                                 
Net Income (Loss)
    (926,850 )     521,820       (1,142,859 )     3,104,785  
                                 
Net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest
            111,822       -       215,337  
                                 
Net Income (Loss) attributable to American Nano Silicon Technologies, Inc
    (926,850 )     409,998       (1,142,859 )     2,889,448  
                                 
Other comprehensive income
                               
Foreign currency translation adjustment
    16,608       139,520       226,306       337,845  
                                 
Comprehensive income (loss)
    (910,242 )     661,340       (916,553 )     3,442,630  
Comprehensive Income attributable to the
                               
noncontrolling interest
    -       111,822       -       215,337  
                                 
Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to American Nano Silicon Technologies, Inc
  $   (910,242 )   $ 549,518     $ (916,553 )   $ 3,227,293  
                                 
Income (Loss) per common share
                               
Basic
  $ (0.03 )   $ 0.01     $ (0.03 )   $ 0.09  
Diluted
  $ (0.03 )   $ 0.01     $ (0.03 )   $ 0.09  
                                 
Weighted average number of common shares
                               
Basic
    36,210,558       31,032,289       34,673,898       31,010,413  
Diluted
    36,210,558       31,105,588       34,673,898       31,010,413

Monday, April 23, 2012
Notable Share Transactions
On April 16, 2012 the Registrant’s Board of Directors awarded 2,000,000 shares of common stock to Qiwei Zhang, the Registrant’s Chief Engineer and a member of the Board of Directors.  The shares were awarded as compensation for Mr. Zhang’s role in  the development of a flame retardant agent, which is expected to make a major contribution to the Registrant’s revenues in the future.
 

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Investor Alert
To date, the Company has not commenced full-scale manufacture at its new facilities, although limited production began on January 2, 2012. The primary reason is a lack of working capital to purchase raw materials for its products. In the past, the Company received seller financing for its raw material purchases from its single largest supplier and customer. However, in an effort to minimize this concentration risk, the Company is actively negotiating with other raw materials suppliers to secure beneficial terms and long-term cooperation agreements to facilitate production at its new site. The Company has a working capital deficiency, has suspended manufacturing operations in May 2011 as part of an effort to relocate the production facilities and needs additional cash resources to maintain its operations. These factors raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Our auditors have expressed substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern in the audit report on our consolidated financial statements included with the Annual report on Form 10K for the year ended September 30, 2011. In December 2011, the Company fully completed its relocation to the new manufacturing facility and began limited production on January 2, 2012.The Company will need additional funds to meet its operating and financing obligations until sufficient cash flows are generated from anticipated production to sustain operations and to fund future development and financing obligations. The Company’s largest shareholder and President, Mr. Pu Fachun has the intention to continue providing necessary funding for the Company’s normal operations.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Liquidity Requirements
To date, the Company has not commenced full-scale manufacture at its new facilities. The primary reason is a lack of working capital to purchase raw materials for its products. In the past, the Company received seller financing for its raw material purchases from its single largest supplier and customer, Chongqing Trading Company which supplied the Company with 99% and 98% of its raw materials and also accounted for 44% and 35% of revenues in the past two fiscal years. However, in an effort to minimize this concentration risk, the Company is actively negotiating with other raw materials suppliers to secure beneficial terms and long-term cooperation agreements to facilitate production at its new site. As a result of our negative cash flow and our inability to commence full-scale manufacture as of the date of this report, our auditors have issued a going concern opinion to us. If the Company is not able to reach favorable trade terms, it will seek additional capital resources, such as bank loans, an equity raise, or rely on our management to further loan capital to the Company, in order to fund these work capital needs.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Comments & Business Outlook

Fiscal 2011 Results

  • Sales of $16.1 million compared to sales of $23.4 million in FY 2010, a decrease of $7.3 million
  • Net income was $3.4 million as compared to a net loss of $4.3 million in FY 2010, an increase of $7.7 million or 179 percent.
  • EPS for fiscal 2011 were $0.11 vs a loss of ($0.16) in 2010

Business Outlook

"We are very excited about our prospects in 2012," remarked Mr. Pu. "Our new flame retardant additive will be a welcome addition to our product line, and our new facilities and increased product diversification capacities will help us better meet the demands of our customers. Our goal is to establish our patented technology, Micro Nano Silicon, in a broad range of industries as many of our products based on this unique technology have shown to be more cost effective and environmentally friendly than competitors. While we look to provide additional industries with more effective, cleaner additives, we will also strive to build upon our understanding of nano technology and develop other practical, cost effective and eco friendly products."


Monday, September 12, 2011
Acquisitions
On September 6, 2011 American Nano Silicon Technologies, Inc. (the “Registrant”) acquired the minority interest in its subsidiary corporations from Pu Fachun, who is the Registrant’s Chief Executive Officer. In exchange for those interests, the Registrant issued to Mr. Pu 1,650,636 shares of the Registrant’s common stock. The issued shares represented five percent of the outstanding shares after the issuance. That number of shares were issued because the equity interests acquired represented five percent of the equity in the Registrant’s subsidiaries.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Comments & Business Outlook

Second Quarter 2011 Financial Highlights:

  • Revenue increased 29%, from $4.9 million in Q2 2010 to $6.3 million in Q2 2011
  • Gross profit improved 27%, from $1.1 million in Q2 2010 to $1.5 million in Q2 2011
  • Operating income rose 43%, from $0.95 million in Q2 2010 to $1.36 million in Q2 2011
  • Net income increased from ($4.4 million) in Q2 2010 to $0.5 million in Q2 2011
  • EPS was $0.01 vs. $(0.17).

"I am very pleased that ANNO had a strong second quarter," said Fachun Pu, ANNO's Chief Executive Officer. "Solid growth in our core business, our phosphate-free detergent additive, along with excellent progress in our emerging business, our accelerator and enforcement additive for concrete, drove 29 percent revenue growth from the first quarter of 2010 to the first quarter of 2011. We are especially delighted that our accelerator and enforcement additive for concrete has been embraced by China's rapidly developing construction industry. We are very confident about our future and we intend to continue to invest aggressively in our core areas of business."

Business Outlook

In the future, ANNO looks to produce approximately 30,000 tons per year of its Micro Nano Silicon based flame retardant additive for rubber and plastic materials. The Company considers its flame retardant a technologically and economically viable alternative to halogenated flame retardant products. Compared to its halogenated-based competitors, ANNO's research indicates that its flame retardant additive is more cost effective due to its superior flame retardancy, lower specific gravity, low loading level, and non-blooming characteristic. The Company's studies also show that when its flame retardant is exposed to flame, it is less toxic with lower smoke density and less invasive odor than competitive products.

"Since our sales already exceed our production capacity, we plan to further expand our current capacity for our finished Micro Nano Silicon products from 30,000 tons to 120,000 tons per year. Additionally, we intend to strengthen our sales force so that we are better able to market our products beyond our regional base of customers. Our goal is to establish Micro Nano Silicon in a broad range of industries as our current products based on this unique technology have shown to be more cost effective and environmentally friendly than competitors. We will strive to develop additional uses for Micro Nano Silicon as we look to provide other industries with more effective, cleaner additives," stated Mr. Fachun Pu.


Thursday, February 17, 2011
Comments & Business Outlook
 
(UNAUDITED)
 
                 
       
For the Three months Ended
 
       
December 31
 
       
2010
   
2009
 
                 
                 
Revenues
      $ 5,929,436     $ 4,154,011  
                     
Cost of Goods Sold
      4,458,559       3,198,663  
                     
Gross Profit
      1,470,877       955,348  
                     
Operating Expenses
                 
 
Research and development expense
    -       4,732  
 
Selling, general and administrative
    170,983       52,238  
                     
   
Income from operations
    1,299,894       898,378  
                     
Other Income and Expense
                 
 
Interest expense
      (8,165 )     (32,692 )
 
Change in fair value of warrant liabilities
    1,484,396       -  
   
Total other expense
    1,476,231       (32,692 )
                     
Income  Before  Income Taxes
      2,776,125       865,686  
                     
Provision for Income Taxes
      193,160       146,918  
                     
Net Income
      2,582,965       718,768  
                     
Less: net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest
    103,515       46,665  
                     
Net Income attributable to American Nano silicon Technologies, Inc
    2,479,450       672,103  
                     
Other comprehensive income (loss)
                 
 
Foreign currency translation adjustment
    198,325       (665 )
                     
Comprehensive Income
    $ 2,677,775     $ 671,438  
                     
Income per common share
                 
 
Basic
    $ 0.08     $ 0.03  
 
Diluted
    $ 0.08     $ 0.03  
                     
Weighted average number of common shares
               
 
Basic
      30,989,306       26,578,767  
 
Diluted
      31,607,119       26,578,767

GeoTeam® Note: Adjusted EPS for the 2010 December quarter was $0.04, after subtracting warrant gain.

  • During the quarter ended December 31, 2010, our revenue from the operation of accelerator additive for cement was $870,289, presenting for approximately 15% of the total revenue for the quarter. During the quarter ended December 31, 2009, we did not have this business section with gross margin rate as compare to our detergent and detergent additive section. This is another reason for our increased revenue. As of right now, in China, the increasing number of infrastructure projects drives the demand for cement and other construction materials. In 2010, approximately two billion square meters of cement were produced in China, approximately half of worldwide production. Our management believes that e will be able to market Micro Nano Silicon to the cement industry to lower production costs and assist cement manufacturers' compliance with energy saving regulations. Going forward, we plan to increase our sales force to market our products beyond our regional base of customers. Since our sales already exceed the production capacity of our plant, we are investing aggressively in an expansion of our production capacity.
  • Within the next several quarters, the Company expects to develop applications for Micro-Nano Silicon in industries other than the non-phosphate detergent market. Beginning from the third quarter of fiscal 2010, the Company commenced to distribute micro nano silicon as an accelerator for cement, thereby entering into construction material industry. Other potential applications for Micro-Nano Silicon include use by the paint industry as a pigment agent and use by the plastics industry for structural reinforcement. These and other applications would affect our cost of goods sold, as the products that we would offer to the paint and plastics industries would involve greater manufacturing cost than our current detergent product. In the meantime, as we expand production of our detergent product, we are looking to manage our cost of goods sold more efficiently. In particular, the expansion of our annual production capacity for Micro-Nano Silicon from 30,000 to 120,000 tons should enable us to manage our cost ratio more efficiently, which could increase our gross profit accordingly.
  • The increase in SG&A expense was primarily related to the expenses arising from consulting expenses, investor relation fee and legal fee, and compensation for directors. We expect that the recent financing will represent only the first step of a more intensive relationship with the U.S. capital markets. If that is the case, then SG&A expense in the future are likely to include increased legal, accounting and other expenses relating to our obligations as a U.S. public company.
  • Although our plans to expand our facilities and increase research and development activities will increase our operating expenses in the future, we believe that the top line benefits will more than compensate for the increased expenses, and that we will realize increased income from operations in future periods.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Comments & Business Outlook
AMERICAN NANO SILICON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
 
FOR THE YEARS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 AND 2009
 
(Expressed in US dollars)
 
                 
         
       
September 30,
 
       
2010
   
2009
 
                 
                 
Revenues
      $ 23,403,930     $ 15,916,813  
                     
Cost of Goods Sold
      17,764,941       12,294,361  
                     
Gross Profit
      5,638,989       3,622,452  
                     
Operating Expenses
                 
 
Research and development expense
    82,934       19,074  
 
Selling, general and administrative
    1,062,726       367,901  
                     
   
Income from operations
    4,493,329       3,235,478  
                     
Other Income and Expense
                 
 
Interest expense
      (32,766 )     (32,658 )
 
Loss on private placement
    (4,527,138 )     -  
 
Change of fair value of derivative liabilities
    (3,102,455 )     -  
 
Impairment loss from property and equipment
    (366,642 )     -  
 
Other income (expense)
    1,754       (97 )
   
Total other expense
    (8,027,247 )     (32,756 )
                     
Income  Before  Income Taxes
      (3,533,918 )     3,202,722  
                     
Provision for Income Taxes
      747,214       653,610  
                     
Net Income (Loss)
      (4,281,132 )     2,549,112  
                     
Less: net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest
    301,851       187,230  
                     
Net Income (Loss)  attributable to American Nano Silicon Technologies, Inc.
    (4,582,983 )     2,361,882  
                     
Other comprehensive income (loss)
               
Foreign currency translation adjustment
    319,756       (22,298 )
                     
Comprehensive Income (Loss)
    $ (4,263,227 )   $ 2,339,584  
                     
Income  (loss) per common share
               
 
Basic
    $ (0.16 )   $ 0.09  
 
Diluted
    $ (0.16 )   $ 0.09  
                     
Weighted average number of common shares
               
 
Basic
      28,373,412       26,568,520  
 
Diluted
      28,373,412       26,568,520

GeoTeam® Note: Non-GAAP EPS for

  • Full year 2010 was $0.13.
  • 2010 Fourth quarter was $0.04 vs. $0.03 in 2009.

 


Monday, May 10, 2010
Liquidity Requirements

Going forward, if we are able to raise additional capital, we expect to add more sales force to market our products beyond our regional base of customers.

The Company’s capital resources and cash flow are adequate to sustain operations as currently constituted. However, the Company expects to incur substantial additional costs, including costs related to ongoing research and development activities. The Company's future cash requirements will depend on many factors, including continued scientific progress in our research and development programs, the time and costs involved in obtaining regulatory approvals, the costs involved in filing, prosecuting and enforcing patents, competing technological and market development and the cost of product commercialization. We will require external financing to sustain our operations, perhaps for a significant period of time. We intend to seek additional funding through grants and through public or private financing transactions. At the present time, however, we have no commitment for financing from any source


Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Comments & Business Outlook
First quarter December 2009 excerpts:

Cost of goods sold, which consists of labor, overhead and product cost, was $3,198,663 for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, representing an increase of $274,598 or 9% as compared to $2,924,065 for the quarter ended December 31, 2008. This increase in cost of goods sold was close to the increase in revenue. However, since we commenced full scale production of Micro-Nano Silicon in October, 2009, our per unit cost of goods sold began to decline. We are looking to manage our cost of goods sold more efficiently in fiscal 2010.

In line with our increased revenue, our net income increased to $672,103 for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 as compared to $502,678 for the quarter ended December 31, 2008. Our net income ratio is increasing from quarter to quarter. As our core product segment is gaining more market awareness, we expect to experience steady growth.