2ZK offers a transportable "mini mill" business model for locally processing biomass into sustainable energy. Their mini mills can process 3,000-100,000 tons of biomass per year, including wood residues and waste, into pellets. This provides local biomass owners value by turning a low-cost raw material into a higher value pellet. 2ZK has an operational pilot plant and seeks growth capital to duplicate this model across Europe and beyond, where abundant local biomass is available but underutilized.
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PréSentation 2 Zk Mini Mill 091109
1. 2ZK - Tuzetka
What is energy
…. without fuel?
« Rent a mill »: integrated concept
for local processing of biomass for
sustainable energy
2. We are in the biomass business
Biomass is (almost) CO2 - neutral
3. Summary
Our market:
•Why biomass
•What is needed?
•Our Objective : to be present upstream where the biomass is
•Uses of our CO2-neutral biomass
•Where is the biomass
Our offering:
•Transportable « Mini mill » based model
•Commercial value for customers: turn capital cost into operational cost
•The mini mill
•The transportable mini mill
Our perspectives
•What we have and are today
•What we need
•The numbers
•Expansion and exit
4. Why Biomass?
A) EU 20-20-20 plan (January 2008):
• 20% renewable energy source: wind, solar, hydro and …
biomass
• plus 20% reduction of consumption
• for 20% CO2 emissions reduction
B) Fuel independency
C) commitments withing Kyoto framework, COP15
We source, process and supply biomass
5. What is needed?
Biomass 2020: 170 Mio tons oil equivalent
or
400 Mio tons Biomass
400 Mio T biomass! = 40 Mio Ha
Pellets in 2015: 20 Mios tons (2Bios€)
7. Our objective:
to be present upstream
« where the biomass is »
...and use otherwise unexploitable biomass
8. Uses of our CO2-neutral biomass
Customers in EU 27 including France, Germany, Spain
Supply from: wood and agro residues, the waste industry
(sludges, manure, algae,….)
For cogeneration and district heating today
• Delays and failures due to shortage of biomass
(e.g. 1Mwth per year= 1.000T of biomass)
• Efficiency through proximity to the biomass
9. Where is the Biomass?
1) Western-EU27
* small-scale biomass: 500 -1000T mobile lines for local
treatment
* alternative sources: waste, manure, sludge, algae multi-
biomass mobile concept!
2) Central Europe (Ukraine, Hungary)
* Large quantities of traditional and cheaper biomass
competitive with fossil fuels
When: NOW! As stricter and stricter
regulations creates larger and larger demand
10. Our offering
Transportable « Mini mill » based model
- Local pelletising of any biomass including waste
- Flexibility through movability and modularity
- 3.000 Tons per year 100.000 Tons/year
- In house development, multi biomass concept
- No operational or set-up hurdles (rent with operator)
11. Commercial value for the customer
Added value through local pelletising
-30€ or 0 €/Ton 100-150 €/Ton
Price advantage for the biomass owners/Price per ton
Costs/margins
200 €
for biomass
owner
150 €
100 €
50 €
0€
Waste Residue (straw) Pellets for Pellets for Mini mill
industry domestic
-50 €
Waste treatment Purchase raw material Transport1heating
Processing Transport 2 Packaging
Distribution
Turn capital costs into operational costs
12. The mini mill:
• Own plant (6.000T/year) in operation
• Replicable and scalable concept
• Locally processing material
• Locally sourced material (originally used for
agriculture)
• Robust
(Lada vs BMW)
We have gone
through
the learning curve
13. Transportable mini mill
- Easy to transport (one trailer) and to install
- Based on agro equipment, no electronics
- Developed by a biomass specialist – competitive & patented
sourcing
- Komsomolets (UA): 350 workers, R&D dpt., active on grain
market (domestic and export), successfull prior experience
14. What we have today...
Seed capital
• Today FFF for the seed capital (pilot plant and R&D)
• Pilot plant: production & sales, skills
• Now, we are raising equity for a scalable expansion 2010-2015
Operational staff
• Hands-on management: 6 cre-active people with technical and
local back ground, 14 workers
• Development with a manufacturer of agro equipment
(Komsomolets – 350 workers – R&D team, prototyping dpt.,…)
15. What we have today...
Operational staff
• Hands-on management: 6 cre-active people and assistants with
technical and local back ground, 14 workers
• Patrick de Jamblinne: Operations manager, contacts with investors, customer
relations
•Loïc Lerminiaux: land sourcing, plantations, day to day management Ukraine
• Guus Keder: contacts with investors, expansion « x to liquid »
•Igor Nikolaenko: plant manager Ukraine, sourcing management
• Development with an Ukrainian manufacturer of agro
equipment (Komsomolets – 350 workers – R&D team,
prototyping dpt.,…)
16. What we need...
Growth capital
• € 1 million equity for scalable expansion 2010-2015
To duplicate executive skill-sets
• Build on our experience
Strategic Partners / Shareholders
• « Bring more than money »
17. The numbers...
in k€ per year (>2015) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Total of mini mills in operations 3 9 13 21 25 25
Global efficiency (loss coeff x 41% 45% 50% 45% 51% 51%
productivity)
Yearly incomes (VAT excl.) 352 1.153 2.025 2.869 4.050 4.219
EBITDA (income-curr. exp.) -15 244 552 784 1.213 1.289
EAT (Earning after taxes) -75 -80 15 38 192 256
Cash flow -27 204 474 702 1.087 1.163
Expected IRR of 40%
1€ invested is generating 0,7€ annual cash flow (average over 5
years)
18. Expansion and exit
Expansion:
• Geographically: where the biomass is!
• Technic: upgrade per mill with higher output
• Downstream: add more value to biomass (i.e.
torrefaction-pyrolysis, district heating, gasification…)
Exits:
• Trade sale, take over
• IPO
19. Thank you for your attention.
Any questions?
2ZK - Tuzetka
www.2zk.eu
Patrick de Jamblinne: patrick@2zk.eu - + 32 478 475 433
Loïc Lerminiaux: loic@2zk.eu - +380 672 350 309
Guus Keder: guus@2zk.eu - +32 475 243 248