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operating results and financial condition.
−Removed: We have a history of losses, and we may not be profitable in
−Removed: any future period.
−Removed: Except for Fiscal 2018 and
−Removed: Fiscal 2021, in each fiscal year since our reorganization in 2006, we have reported losses.
−Removed: For Fiscal year 2023, we recorded a net
−Removed: loss of $3.4 million.
−Removed: We continue to need substantial funds for the development of new products, enhancement of existing products
−Removed: and in order to expand sales.
−Removed: However, sales of our products have not increased as we expected them to and may never increase to the level
−Removed: that we need to expand our operations, or even to sustain them.
−Removed: We can provide no assurance as to when, or if, we will be profitable in
−Removed: Even if we achieve profitability, we may not be able to sustain it.
−Removed: Our independent registered public accounting
−Removed: firm has expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern, which may hinder our ability to obtain future financing.
−Removed: During the fiscal year ended
−Removed: February 28, 2023, the Company incurred a net loss of approximately $3.4 million and had negative cash flows from operating activities
−Removed: of approximately $3.1 million and at February 28, 2023, had a stockholders deficit of approximately $20.3 million and a working capital
−Removed: deficit of approximately $13.7 million.
−Removed: In addition, as of February 28, 2023, notes payable with an aggregate balance of $5.1 million
−Removed: and accrued interest of $1.1 million are past due.
−Removed: These factors raise substantial doubts about the Company’s ability to continue
−Removed: as a going concern within one year of the date that these financial statements are issued.
−Removed: As a result, our independent registered public
−Removed: accounting firm included an explanatory paragraph in its report on our financial statements as of and for the year ended February 28,
−Removed: 2023, with respect to this uncertainty.
−Removed: We do not have any sufficient committed sources of capital and do not know whether additional
−Removed: financing will be available when needed on terms that are acceptable, if at all.
−Removed: This going concern statement from our independent public
−Removed: accounting firm may discourage some investors from purchasing our stock or providing alternative capital financing.
−Removed: The failure to satisfy
−Removed: our capital requirements will adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
+Added: Going Concern
+Added: The Company’s financial
+Added: statements have been prepared under the assumption that the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: As discussed in Note 1 to the financial
+Added: statements, during the year ended February 29, 2024, the Company incurred a net loss of $4.2 million, used cash in operations of $3 million,
+Added: and at February 29, 2024, had a stockholders’ deficit of $21.5 million.
+Added: In addition, at February 29, 2024, notes payable and related
+Added: accrued interest with an aggregate balance of $6.7 million have reached maturity and are past due.
+Added: These factors raise substantial doubt
+Added: about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date that the financial statements are issued.
+Added: In addition, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, in their report on the Company’s February 29, 2024,
+Added: audited financial statements, raised substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Our ability to continue as
+Added: a going concern is dependent upon our ability to increase revenues, obtain additional financing, drive further operating efficiencies,
+Added: reduce expenditures, and ultimately, create profitable operations.
+Added: In the event that the Company does not generate sufficient cash flows
+Added: from operations and is unable to obtain funding, the Company will be forced to delay, reduce, or eliminate some or all of its discretionary
+Added: spending, which could adversely affect the Company’s business prospects, ability to meet long-term liquidity needs or ability to
+Added: continue operations.
+Added: The Company does not have any sufficient committed sources of capital and does not know whether additional financing
+Added: will be available when needed on terms that are acceptable, if at all.
+Added: This going concern statement from our independent public accounting
+Added: firm may discourage some investors from purchasing our stock or providing alternative capital financing.
+Added: The failure to satisfy our capital
+Added: requirements will adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
The effects of a pandemic or widespread
−Removed: outbreak of an illness, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, has had and could continue to have a material adverse impact on our business, results
−Removed: of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: The outbreak of COVID-19
−Removed: was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (“WHO”) during our fourth quarter of Fiscal 2020 and continues to
−Removed: impact our operations and cash flows up to the filing date of this Annual Report for Fiscal 2023.
−Removed: We have implemented measures to mitigate
−Removed: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: We expect our Fiscal 2024 results of operations to be less impacted, however still adversely affected
−Removed: by the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: As a result of the COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic, we have experienced varying degrees of business disruptions and periods of closure of our corporate facilities, as have our
−Removed: customers, partners, suppliers, and vendors, as described in Item 1 — “Business — Recent Developments.”
−Removed: Collectively, these disruptions have had a material adverse impact on our business throughout Fiscal 2023 and Fiscal 2022.
−Removed: introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, the pandemic remains highly volatile and continues to evolve.
−Removed: Accordingly, we cannot predict for how
−Removed: long and to what extent this crisis will continue to impact our business operations or the global economy as a whole.
−Removed: Potential impacts
−Removed: to our business include, but are not limited to:
−Removed: ● our ability to successfully
−Removed: execute our long-term growth strategy;
−Removed: ● potential declines in the level
−Removed: of purchases of products, including our products, caused by higher unemployment and lower disposal income levels, travel and social gathering
−Removed: restrictions, work-from-home arrangements, or other factors beyond our control;
−Removed: ● our ability to generate sufficient
−Removed: cash flows to support our operations, including repayment of our debt obligations as they become due;
−Removed: ● the potential loss of one or
−Removed: more of our significant customers or partners, or the loss of a large number of smaller customers or partners, if they are not able to
−Removed: withstand prolonged periods of adverse economic conditions, and our ability to collect outstanding receivables;
−Removed: ● temporary closures or other
−Removed: operational restrictions of our facilities;
−Removed: ● supply chain disruptions resulting
−Removed: from closed factories, reduced workforces, scarcity of raw materials, and scrutiny or embargoing of goods produced in infected areas,
−Removed: including any related cost increases;
−Removed: ● our ability to access capital
−Removed: markets and maintain compliance with covenants associated with our existing debt instruments, as well as the ability of our key customers,
−Removed: suppliers, and vendors to do the same with regard to their own obligations;
−Removed: ● additional costs to protect
−Removed: the health and safety of our employees, customers, and communities, such as more frequent and thorough cleanings of our facilities and
−Removed: supplying personal protection equipment;
−Removed: ● diversion of management attention
−Removed: and resources from ongoing business activities and/or a decrease in employee morale;
−Removed: ● our ability to maintain an effective
−Removed: system of internal controls and compliance with the requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
+Added: outbreak of an illness, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, has had and could continue to have a material adverse impact on our business,
+Added: results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: While the impact of the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic on our business has largely abated, uncertainties continue from the ongoing effects of the pandemic and an economic slowdown.
+Added: The effects of government agency actions and the Company’s policies and those of third parties to combat future pandemics may negatively
+Added: impact productivity and the Company’s ability to market and sell its products, cause disruptions to its supply chain anon d impair
+Added: its ability to execute its business development strategy.
+Added: These and other disruptions in the Company’s operations and the global
+Added: economy could negatively impact the Company’s business, operating results and financial condition.
Additional discussion related
to the various risks and uncertainties described above is included elsewhere within this “Risk Factors” section of our Form
−Removed: We derive a substantial portion of our revenues
−Removed: from customers in industries susceptible to trends and factors affecting those industries, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: Our axial flux induction technology
−Removed: is geared toward industrial, commercial and EV motor users, and in addition, our mobile power solution is geared to end-markets such as
−Removed: commercial vehicles, communications, transportation industries, and consumer and industrial equipment markets.
−Removed: Factors negatively affecting
−Removed: these industries also negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Any adverse occurrence, including
−Removed: industry slowdown, recession, costly or constraining regulations, excessive inflation, prolonged disruptions in one or more of our customers’
−Removed: production schedules or labor disturbances, that results in significant decline in the volume of sales in these industries, or in an overall
−Removed: downturn in the business and operations of our customers in these industries, could materially adversely affect our business, financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations.
+Added: We derive a substantial portion of our revenues from customers
+Added: in industries susceptible to trends and factors affecting those industries, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: Our axial flux induction
+Added: technology is geared toward industrial, commercial and EV motor users, and in addition, our mobile power solution is geared to end-markets
+Added: such as commercial vehicles, communications, transportation industries, and consumer and industrial equipment markets.
+Added: Factors negatively
+Added: affecting these industries also negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: Any adverse occurrence,
+Added: including industry slowdown, recession, costly or constraining regulations, excessive inflation, prolonged disruptions in one or more
+Added: of our customers’ production schedules or labor disturbances, that results in significant decline in the volume of sales in these
+Added: industries, or in an overall downturn in the business and operations of our customers in these industries, could materially adversely
+Added: affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
As a result of the COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic, global vehicle production has decreased, and some manufacturers have completely shut down manufacturing operations in some countries
−Removed: and regions, including the United States and Europe.
−Removed: As a result, we have experienced, and are likely to continue to experience, delays
−Removed: in the production and distribution of our products and the loss of sales.
−Removed: If the global economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
−Removed: continue or increase, overall customer demand may continue to decrease which could have a further adverse effect on our business, results
−Removed: of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: We will need additional capital in the future
−Removed: to meet our obligations and financing may not be available.
+Added: pandemic, global vehicle production has decreased, and some manufacturers have completely shut down manufacturing operations in some
+Added: countries and regions, including the United States and Europe.
+Added: As a result, we have experienced, and are likely to continue to experience,
+Added: delays in the production and distribution of our products and the loss of sales.
+Added: If the global economic effects caused by the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic continue or increase, overall customer demand may continue to decrease which could have a further adverse effect on our business,
+Added: results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: We will need additional capital in the
+Added: future to meet our obligations and financing may not be available.
During Fiscal 2024 and Fiscal 2023, the Company increased its engineering
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that case, our business and results of operations would be materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: Our capital requirements have
−Removed: been and will continue to be significant.
−Removed: We will require substantial additional funds in excess of our current financial resources for
−Removed: research, development and commercialization of products, to obtain and maintain patents and other intellectual property rights in these
−Removed: technologies and products, and for working capital and other purposes, the timing and amount of which are difficult to ascertain.
−Removed: and as we need additional funds, such funds may not be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
−Removed: If we cannot obtain additional
−Removed: funding when and as needed, our business and results of operation would be materially and adversely affected.
+Added: Our capital requirements
+Added: have been and will continue to be significant.
+Added: We will require substantial additional funds in excess of our current financial resources
+Added: for research, development and commercialization of products, to obtain and maintain patents and other intellectual property rights in
+Added: these technologies and products, and for working capital and other purposes, the timing and amount of which are difficult to ascertain.
+Added: When and as we need additional funds, such funds may not be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
+Added: If we cannot obtain
+Added: additional funding when and as needed, our business and results of operation would be materially and adversely affected.
Our intellectual property rights are valuable,
−Removed: and any inability or failure to protect them could reduce the value of our products, services and brand, which would have a material adverse
−Removed: effect on our business.
−Removed: Our patents, trademarks, and
−Removed: all of our other intellectual property rights are important assets for us.
−Removed: There are events that are outside of our control that pose
−Removed: a threat to our intellectual property rights.
−Removed: For example, effective intellectual property protection may not be available in every country
−Removed: in which our products and services are distributed or made available.
−Removed: Also, the efforts we have taken to protect our proprietary rights
−Removed: may not be sufficient or effective.
−Removed: Due to our lack of financial resources, we may not be able to adequately protect our technology portfolio
−Removed: or apply for new patents to extend our intellectual property portfolio.
−Removed: The expiration of patents in our patent portfolio may also have
−Removed: an adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: Any significant impairment of our intellectual property rights could harm our business and or our ability
−Removed: Protecting our intellectual property rights is costly and time consuming and we may need to resort to litigation to enforce
−Removed: our patent rights or to determine the scope and validity of third-party intellectual property rights and we may not have the financial
−Removed: resources to pay for such litigation.
−Removed: Some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of complex patent litigation more effectively
−Removed: than we can because they have substantially greater resources.
−Removed: We seek to obtain patent protection
−Removed: for our innovations.
+Added: and any inability or failure to protect them could reduce the value of our products, services and brand, which would have a material
+Added: adverse effect on our business.
+Added: Our patents, trademarks,
+Added: and all of our other intellectual property rights are important assets for us.
+Added: There are events that are outside of our control that
+Added: pose a threat to our intellectual property rights.
+Added: For example, effective intellectual property protection may not be available in every
+Added: country in which our products and services are distributed or made available.
+Added: Also, the efforts we have taken to protect our proprietary
+Added: rights may not be sufficient or effective.
+Added: Due to our lack of financial resources, we may not be able to adequately protect our technology
+Added: portfolio or apply for new patents to extend our intellectual property portfolio.
+Added: The expiration of patents in our patent portfolio may
+Added: also have an adverse effect on our business.
+Added: Any significant impairment of our intellectual property rights could harm our business and
+Added: or our ability to compete.
+Added: Protecting our intellectual property rights is costly and time consuming and we may need to resort to litigation
+Added: to enforce our patent rights or to determine the scope and validity of third-party intellectual property rights and we may not have the
+Added: financial resources to pay for such litigation.
+Added: Some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of complex patent litigation
+Added: more effectively than we can because they have substantially greater resources.
+Added: We seek to obtain patent
+Added: protection for our innovations.
It is possible, however, that some of these innovations may not be protectable.
−Removed: In addition, given the costs of obtaining
−Removed: patent protection, we may choose not to protect certain innovations that later turn out to be important.
−Removed: Furthermore, there is always
−Removed: the possibility, despite our efforts, that the scope of the protection gained will be insufficient or that an issued patent may be deemed
−Removed: invalid or unenforceable.
−Removed: Our inability or failure to protect our intellectual property rights could have a material adverse effect on
−Removed: our business by reducing the value of our products, services and brand.
+Added: In addition, given the
+Added: costs of obtaining patent protection, we may choose not to protect certain innovations that later turn out to be important.
+Added: there is always the possibility, despite our efforts, that the scope of the protection gained will be insufficient or that an issued
+Added: patent may be deemed invalid or unenforceable.
+Added: Our inability or failure to protect our intellectual property rights could have a material
+Added: adverse effect on our business by reducing the value of our products, services and brand.
We occasionally become subject to commercial
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and future legal proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty.
−Removed: Also, our insurance coverage may be insufficient or not provide any coverage
−Removed: at all for certain claims, our assets may be insufficient to cover any amounts that exceed our insurance coverage, and we may have to
−Removed: pay damage awards or otherwise may enter into settlement arrangements in connection with such claims.
+Added: Also, our insurance coverage may be insufficient or not provide any
+Added: coverage at all for certain claims, our assets may be insufficient to cover any amounts that exceed our insurance coverage, and we may
+Added: have to pay damage awards or otherwise may enter into settlement arrangements in connection with such claims.
Any such payments or settlement
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payable debt outstanding plus accrued interest of approximately $19.3 million, of which $11.9 million was short term.
−Removed: As of February 28, 2023, notes payable with an aggregate balance of
−Removed: $5.1 million and accrued interest of $1.1 million are past due,
−Removed: In March 2022, the Company
−Removed: reached a settlement that resolved the various claims asserted against us by former director, Robert Kopple, and his affiliated entities.
+Added: As of February
+Added: 29, 2024, notes payable with an aggregate balance of $5.3 million and accrued interest of $1.4 million are past due,
+Added: In March 2022, the
+Added: Company reached a settlement that resolved the various claims asserted against us by former director, Robert Kopple, and his
+Added: affiliated entities.
In July 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Kopple and his affiliates brought suit against the Company relating to more than $13 million and the current equivalent
−Removed: of more than approximately 23 million warrants, exercisable for seven years at a price of $0.10 per share, which Mr.
−Removed: Kopple and his affiliated
−Removed: entities (collectively the “Kopple Parties”) claimed to be owed to them pursuant to various agreements with the Company entered
−Removed: into between 2013-2016.
−Removed: Under the terms of the settlement, the Company agreed to pay an aggregate amount of $10 million over a period
−Removed: of seven years, including $3 million initial payment in June 2022.
−Removed: $150,000 was paid in June 2022, and the balance of the initial payment
−Removed: of $2.85 million was extended to May 29, 2023.
−Removed: In exchange for the extension, the Company paid extension and forbearance fees of $165,000
−Removed: in cash and accrued deferred forbearance fees of $430,000.
−Removed: Beginning January 2023, interest accrues on the unpaid balance at a rate of
−Removed: 6%, compounded annually.
−Removed: All amounts, including all accrued interest and deferred fees, are to be paid no later than eight years from
−Removed: the date of the initial payment.
−Removed: The Kopple Parties have also received seven-year warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of approximately
−Removed: 3.3 million shares of our common stock at a price of $0.85 per share.
−Removed: The settlement also provides for standard mutual general release
−Removed: provisions and includes customary representations, warranties, and covenants, including certain increases in the amount payable to the
−Removed: Kopple Parties and the right of such parties to enter judgment against the Company if the Company remains in uncured default in its payment
−Removed: obligations under the settlement.
+Added: Kopple and his affiliates brought suit against the Company relating to more than $13 million
+Added: and the current equivalent of more than approximately 23 million warrants, exercisable for seven years at a price of $0.10 per
+Added: share, which Mr.
+Added: Kopple and his affiliated entities (collectively the “Kopple Parties”) claimed to be owed to them
+Added: pursuant to various agreements with the Company entered into between 2013-2016.
+Added: Under the terms of the settlement, the Company
+Added: agreed to pay an aggregate amount of $10 million over a period of seven years, including $3 million initial payment in June 2022.
+Added: $150,000 was paid in June 2022, and the balance of the initial payment of $2.85 million was extended to May 29, 2023.
+Added: for the extension, the Company paid extension and forbearance fees of $165,000 in cash and accrued deferred forbearance fees of
+Added: Beginning January 2023, interest accrues on the unpaid balance at a rate of 6%, compounded annually.
+Added: including all accrued interest and deferred fees, are to be paid no later than eight years from the date of the initial payment.
+Added: Kopple Parties have also received seven-year warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of approximately 3.3 million shares of our
+Added: common stock at a price of $0.85 per share.
+Added: The settlement also provides for standard mutual general release provisions and includes
+Added: customary representations, warranties, and covenants, including certain increases in the amount payable to the Kopple Parties and
+Added: the right of such parties to enter judgment against the Company if the Company remains in uncured default in its payment obligations
+Added: under the settlement.
“Legal Proceedings”, “Liquidity and Capital Resources” in “Item 7.
−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, Footnote 9 “Notes Payable-Related
−Removed: Parties” and Footnote 17 “Subsequent Events “in the Notes to Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual
−Removed: Report on Form 10-K for additional information regarding the transactions.
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, and Footnote 9 “Notes
+Added: Payable-Related Parties” in the Notes to Financial Statements included
+Added: elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information regarding the transactions.
+Added: During the year ended February
+Added: 29, 2024, the note was amended multiple times to extend the payment dates of the balance of the initial payment of $2,850, originally
+Added: due in June 2022, and the first installment payment of $1,000, originally due in June 2023 (collectively, the “past due principal”).
+Added: As a result of these amendments, the Company incurred additional extension and forbearance fees totaling $450 and adjustment to principal
+Added: balance of $23 that was recorded as part of interest expense.
+Added: As of February 29, 2024, outstanding principal balance amounted to $10,938,
+Added: including the $3,850 past due principal (see below).
+Added: In March 2024, the Company
+Added: and Kopple again amended the note payable.
+Added: The amendment (i) replaced the requirement to pay the $3,850 past due principal balance with
+Added: the requirement to pay $2,000 due December 15, 2024, effectively extending the payment of $1,850 to future periods;
+Added: (ii) increased the
+Added: stated interest rate to 10%;
+Added: (iii) added a fee of $15 monthly until the Company makes a principal payment of $2 million by December 2024;
+Added: (iv) effective August 30, 2024, the Company will grant Kopple a conversion right that gives Kopple the option to be able to convert the
+Added: note payable into equity of the Company at a conversion price of the lower of $1.00 per share or 50% of the 10 day volume weighted average
+Added: price of the Company’s common stock;
+Added: (v) during Fiscal 2025, will require the Company to pay 20% of all collected revenues within
+Added: 10 days of the end of each fiscal quarter;
+Added: (vi) will require the Company to pay Kopple 20% of any amount raised in new capital in the
+Added: form of equity, debt or convertible debt above $3.5 million;
+Added: (vii) reduces the exercise price of the warrants granted to Kopple in March
+Added: 2022 from $0.85 per share to $0.50 per share;
+Added: and (vii) extends the warrant expiration date from March 8, 2029, to March 31, 2031.
+Added: The Company will account for this amendment in the first quarter ended March 31, 2024, for fiscal year 2025.
We expect to obtain the money
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Our business is not diversified.
−Removed: increase market acceptance of our products, modify our products and services, or compete with new technologies, we may never be profitable.
+Added: cannot increase market acceptance of our products, modify our products and services, or compete with new technologies, we may never be
We currently focus all of
−Removed: our resources on the successful commercialization of our axial flux induction motors and AuraGen ® mobile power family of
−Removed: Because we have elected to focus our business on a single technology line rather than diversifying into other areas, our success
−Removed: will be dependent upon the commercial success of these products.
−Removed: If we are unable to increase market acceptance of our products, if we
−Removed: are unable to modify our products and services on a timely basis so that we lose customers, or if new technologies make our technology
+Added: our resources on the successful commercialization of our axial flux induction motors and AuraGen ® mobile power family
+Added: Because we have elected to focus our business on a single technology line rather than diversifying into other areas, our
+Added: success will be dependent upon the commercial success of these products.
+Added: If we are unable to increase market acceptance of our products,
+Added: if we are unable to modify our products and services on a timely basis so that we lose customers, or if new technologies make our technology
obsolete, we may never be profitable.
−Removed: Most of our competitors are larger and better
−Removed: financed than we are and have a greater presence in the marketplace.
+Added: Most of our competitors are larger and better financed than
+Added: we are and have a greater presence in the marketplace.
Our business may be adversely affected by industry competition.
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Furthermore, we must compete with many larger and better-established companies in the hiring and retention of qualified personnel.
−Removed: we believe we have significant technological advantages over our competitors, realizing and maintaining such advantages will require us
−Removed: to develop customer relationships and will also depend on market acceptance of our products.
+Added: we believe we have significant technological advantages over our competitors, realizing and maintaining such advantages will require
+Added: us to develop customer relationships and will also depend on market acceptance of our products.
We may not have the financial resources,
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not focus adequate resources on selling our products or may otherwise be unsuccessful in selling them.
−Removed: In addition, we cannot assure you
−Removed: that we will be able to establish OEM relationships on favorable terms or at all.
+Added: In addition, we cannot assure
+Added: you that we will be able to establish OEM relationships on favorable terms or at all.
The lack of success of distributors or OEM customers
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or an inability to replace certain suppliers could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
−Removed: We currently do not have the
−Removed: capability to manufacture most of the AuraGen ® components on a commercial scale.
−Removed: Therefore, we rely extensively on contracts
−Removed: with third party manufacturers for such components.
−Removed: The use of third-party manufacturers increases the risk of delay of shipments to our
−Removed: customers and increases the risk of higher costs if our manufacturers are not available when required.
+Added: We currently do not have
+Added: the capability to manufacture most of the AuraGen ® components on a commercial scale.
+Added: Therefore, we rely extensively on
+Added: contracts with third party manufacturers for such components.
+Added: The use of third-party manufacturers increases the risk of delay of shipments
+Added: to our customers and increases the risk of higher costs if our manufacturers are not available when required.
Our suppliers and manufacturers
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to possible delays and other disruptions to the supply chain.
−Removed: Although we generally aim to use standard
−Removed: parts and components for our products, some of our components are currently available only from limited sources.
−Removed: We may experience delays in
−Removed: production of the AuraGen ® if we fail to identify alternate vendors, or if any parts supply is interrupted or reduced or
−Removed: if there is a significant increase in production costs, each of which could materially adversely and affect our business and operations.
+Added: Although we generally aim to use standard parts and components
+Added: for our products, some of our components are currently available only from limited sources.
+Added: We may experience delays
+Added: in production of the AuraGen ® if we fail to identify alternate vendors, or if any parts supply is interrupted or reduced
+Added: or if there is a significant increase in production costs, each of which could materially adversely and affect our business and operations.
We will need to renew sources of component
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prior manufacturers and suppliers or locate other suitable manufacturers and suppliers for subassemblies and other components.
−Removed: we entered into discussions with several of our prior suppliers and we are in the process of negotiating settlements of old payables and
−Removed: arranging new supply contracts.
+Added: we entered into discussions with several of our prior suppliers and we are in the process of negotiating settlements of old payables
+Added: and arranging new supply contracts.
Although we believe that there are a number of potential manufacturers and suppliers of the components,
we cannot guarantee that contracts for components can be obtained on favorable terms or at all.
−Removed: Any material adverse change in terms of
−Removed: the purchase of these components could increase our cost of goods.
−Removed: We need to invest in tooling to have a more
−Removed: extensive line of products.
+Added: Any material adverse change in terms
+Added: of the purchase of these components could increase our cost of goods.
+Added: We need to invest in tooling to have a
+Added: more extensive line of products.
If we cannot expand our tooling, it may not be possible for us to expand our operations.
−Removed: We are currently limited in
−Removed: the products that we are able to manufacture because of the limitations of our tooling capabilities.
−Removed: In order to have a broader line of
−Removed: products that address industrial and commercial needs, we must make a significant investment in additional tooling or pursue new alternatives
+Added: We are currently limited
+Added: in the products that we are able to manufacture because of the limitations of our tooling capabilities.
+Added: In order to have a broader line
+Added: of products that address industrial and commercial needs, we must make a significant investment in additional tooling or pursue new alternatives
to replace traditional tooling.
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or to sell our products into certain countries.
−Removed: If we cannot obtain
−Removed: the required approval from government agencies, then our business may be adversely affected.
−Removed: We depend on third party suppliers
−Removed: for our parts and components, some of which are located outside of the United States.
−Removed: In the event that some of these suppliers are barred
−Removed: from selling their products in the United States, or cannot meet other U.S.
−Removed: government regulations, we would need to locate other suppliers,
−Removed: which could delay or prevent us from shipping product to our customers.
−Removed: We use copper, steel and aluminum in our product and in the event
−Removed: of government regulations or restrictions of these materials we may experience a shortage of these materials to manufacture our product.
+Added: obtain the required approval from government agencies, then our business may be adversely affected.
+Added: We depend on third party
+Added: suppliers for our parts and components, some of which are located outside of the United States.
+Added: In the event that some of these suppliers
+Added: are barred from selling their products in the United States, or cannot meet other U.S.
+Added: government regulations, we would need to locate
+Added: other suppliers, which could delay or prevent us from shipping product to our customers.
+Added: We use copper, steel and aluminum in our product
+Added: and in the event of government regulations or restrictions of these materials we may experience a shortage of these materials to manufacture
Furthermore, U.S.
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government approval.
−Removed: obtain the required approvals from government agencies to obtain materials or contract with suppliers or if we are restricted by government
−Removed: regulation from selling our products into certain countries, our business may be adversely affected.
−Removed: Acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic
−Removed: alliances may have an adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: In March 2017, we entered
−Removed: into a joint venture agreement with a Chinese partner.
−Removed: This joint venture arrangement and other transactions and arrangements involve
−Removed: significant challenges and risks, including that they do not advance our business strategy, that we get an unsatisfactory return on our
−Removed: investment, that we have difficulty integrating and retaining new employees, business systems, and technology, or that they distract management
−Removed: from our other businesses.
−Removed: If an arrangement fails to adequately anticipate changing circumstances and interests of a party, it may result
−Removed: in early termination or renegotiation of the arrangement.
−Removed: The success of these transactions and arrangements will depend in part on our
−Removed: ability to leverage them to enhance our existing products and services or develop compelling new ones.
−Removed: It may take longer than expected
−Removed: to realize the full benefits from these transactions and arrangements, such as increased revenue, enhanced efficiencies, or increased
−Removed: market share, or the benefits may ultimately be smaller than we expected.
−Removed: These events could adversely affect our operating results or
−Removed: financial condition.
−Removed: During Fiscal 2020, the joint venture ceased operation in compliance with the Chinese government’s COVID-19
−Removed: As a result, during Fiscal 2020 the Company recorded an impairment expense of $250,000 writing-off the Jiangsu Shengfeng investment
−Removed: due to operational and future cash-flow uncertainties associated with AuraGen ® market development prospects in China through
−Removed: the joint venture.
−Removed: We rely on highly skilled personnel and,
−Removed: if we are unable to retain or motivate key personnel or hire qualified personnel, we may not be able to grow effectively.
+Added: If we cannot obtain the required approvals from government agencies to obtain materials or contract with suppliers or if we are restricted
+Added: by government regulation from selling our products into certain countries, our business may be adversely affected.
+Added: We rely on highly skilled personnel and, if we are unable to retain or motivate key personnel
+Added: or hire qualified personnel, we may not be able to grow effectively.
Our performance is largely
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Our continued
−Removed: ability to compete effectively depends on our ability to attract new employees and to retain and motivate our existing employees and consultants.
−Removed: The incentives to attract, retain and motivate employees and consultants provided by our ability to pay competitive salaries and rates
−Removed: as well as offering additional incentives such as stock option grants or by future arrangements may not be as effective as in the past.
−Removed: If we do not succeed in attracting excellent personnel or retaining or motivating existing personnel, we may be unable to grow effectively.
+Added: ability to compete effectively depends on our ability to attract new employees and to retain and motivate our existing employees and
+Added: The incentives to attract, retain and motivate employees and consultants provided by our ability to pay competitive salaries
+Added: and rates as well as offering additional incentives such as stock option grants or by future arrangements may not be as effective as
+Added: If we do not succeed in attracting excellent personnel or retaining or motivating existing personnel, we may be unable to
+Added: grow effectively.
Our business is subject to the risks of
−Removed: earthquakes and other natural catastrophic events, and to interruptions by man-made problems such as computer viruses, terrorism, or pandemics.
+Added: earthquakes and other natural catastrophic events, and to interruptions by man-made problems such as computer viruses, terrorism, or
Our corporate headquarters
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of operations.
−Removed: Failure to maintain effective internal controls
−Removed: over financial reporting could adversely affect our business and the market price of our Common Stock.
+Added: Failure to maintain effective internal
+Added: controls over financial reporting could adversely affect our business and the market price of our Common Stock.
Pursuant to rules adopted
−Removed: by the SEC under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, we are required to assess the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting
−Removed: and provide a management report on our internal controls over financial reporting in all annual reports.
−Removed: This report contains, among other
−Removed: matters, a statement as to whether our internal controls over financial reporting are effective and the disclosure of any material weaknesses
−Removed: in our internal controls over financial reporting identified by management.
−Removed: Section 404 also requires our independent registered
−Removed: public accounting firm to audit the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: by the SEC under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, we are required to assess the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial
+Added: reporting and provide a management report on our internal controls over financial reporting in all annual reports.
+Added: This report contains,
+Added: among other matters, a statement as to whether our internal controls over financial reporting are effective and the disclosure of any
+Added: material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting identified by management.
+Added: Section 404 also requires our independent
+Added: registered public accounting firm to audit the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
As described in ITEM 9A, Controls
−Removed: and Procedures contained herein in this Annual Report, management concluded that the Company’s internal controls over financial
−Removed: reporting were not effective for the Fiscal year ended February 28, 2022 and identified material weaknesses in its financial reporting
−Removed: internal controls.
−Removed: The Company implemented a plan to remediate the material weaknesses in Fiscal 2023, and has concluded that as of February
−Removed: 28, 2023 its internal controls over financial reporting were effective.
−Removed: While the Company believes it has addressed and remediated the
−Removed: material weaknesses, there can be no guarantee that other weaknesses in its financial reporting controls will not be identified in the
−Removed: Presently, the Company does not have the financial resources to fully comply with all requirements of Section 404.
−Removed: future, we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting during this continuous evaluation
−Removed: process, our management may not be able to assert that such internal controls are effective.
−Removed: Therefore, if we are unable to assert
−Removed: that our internal controls over financial reporting are effective in the future, or if our auditors are unable to attest that our internal
−Removed: controls are effective or they are unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal controls, we could lose investor
−Removed: confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which would have an adverse effect on our business and the market
−Removed: price of our Common Stock.
−Removed: Trading on the OTC Markets is volatile and
−Removed: sporadic, which could depress the market price of our common stock and make it difficult for our stockholders to resell their shares .
+Added: and Procedures contained herein in this Annual Report, management has concluded that as of February 29, 2024, its internal controls over
+Added: financial reporting were effective.
+Added: While the Company believes it has addressed and remediated material weaknesses identified in 2022,
+Added: there can be no guarantee that other weaknesses in its financial reporting controls will not be identified in the future.
+Added: Presently, the
+Added: Company does not have the financial resources to fully comply with all the requirements of Section 404.
+Added: If, in the future, we identify
+Added: one or more material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting during this continuous evaluation process, our management
+Added: may not be able to assert that such internal controls are effective.
+Added: Therefore, if we are unable to assert that our internal controls
+Added: over financial reporting are effective in the future, or if our auditors are unable to attest that our internal controls are effective
+Added: or they are unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal controls, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy
+Added: and completeness of our financial reports, which would have an adverse effect on our business and the market price of our Common Stock.
+Added: Trading on the OTC Markets is volatile
+Added: and sporadic, which could depress the market price of our common stock and make it difficult for our stockholders to resell their shares .
Our common stock is quoted
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any shares of our common stock.
−Removed: UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
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