MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

10.05.2014

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

HYDRANAUTICS

 

 

Registered Office :

401 Jones Road, Oceanside, CA 92058

 

 

Country :

United States

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

30.06.1975

 

 

Legal Form :

Corporation – Profit

 

 

Line of Business :

Manufactures membrane products for the water treatment industry in the United States and internationally.

 

 

No. of Employees

275

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

B

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

Small

 

Status :

Moderate

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Slow but correct 

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 


NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31, 2014

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.12.2013)

Current Rating

(31.03.2014)

United States

A1

A1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low Risk

 

A2

Moderately Low Risk

 

B1

Moderate Risk

 

B2

Moderately  High Risk

C1

High Risk

 

C2

Very High Risk

 

D

 


 

UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $49,800. In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, they face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers and in medical, aerospace, and military equipment; their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. The onrush of technology largely explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market" in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income. Imported oil accounts for nearly 55% of US consumption. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008. The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, making this the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, in October 2008 the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009 the US Congress passed and President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012 the federal government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through 2011, the direct costs of the wars totaled nearly $900 billion, according to US government figures. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries. In March 2010, President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million American citizens by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on health care - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010. In July 2010, the president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight. In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short term rates near zero until unemployment drops below 6.5% or inflation rises above 2.5%. In late 2013, the Fed announced that it would begin scaling back long-term bond purchases to $75 billion per month in January 2014 and reduce them further as conditions warranted; the Fed, however, would keep short-term rates near zero so long as unemployment and inflation had not crossed the previously stated thresholds. Long-term problems include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits

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Company name    

 

HYDRANAUTICS

 

Address:                                   401 Jones Road, Oceanside, CA 92058 - USA

 

Telephone:                    +1 760-901-2500

 

Fax:                              +1 760-901-2578

 

Website:                       www.membranes.com

 

Corporate ID#:               C0739226

 

State:                           California

 

Judicial form:                 Corporation – Profit

 

Date incorporated:          06-30-1975

 

Stock:                           -

 

Value:                           -

 

Name of manager:          Brett ANDREWS

 

 

ACTIVITIES & OPERATIONS

 

IST

 

Business:

 

Hydranautics, Inc. develops and manufactures membrane products for the water treatment industry in the United States and internationally.

It offers HYDRAcap MAX that provides treatment to reverse osmosis and nanofiltration of water; ESNA1-LF, nanofiltration membranes, which are used for softening applications and the removal of pesticides, bacteria, and viruses; energy-saving polyamide membranes; CPA membranes that provide salt rejection rates; seawater composite membranes, which are used for seawater desalination; low fouling composite membranes that reduce fouling in wastewater and surface  water; and HYDRAcap, which is used to treat surface, ground, sea, and waste water. The company also provides DairyRO membranes that are used for pre-concentrating milk and whey, concentrating whey UF permeate, and polishing whey and milk RO permeate for plant reuse; and SanRO Membrane, which is used in USP water purification systems.

 

In addition, it offers DairyUF membranes for fractionating, purifying, and dewatering of milk and cheese whey; and for whey protein concentration before evaporating and spray-drying. The company’s products are used in various applications in potable water, boiler feedwater, industrial process water, wastewater and surface water treatment, seawater desalination, electronic rinse water, agricultural irrigation, and pharmaceuticals.

It offers its products through distributors in Europe, India, Africa, Belgium, Holland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, the Russian Federation, and the United States.

Hydranautics, Inc. was founded in 1963 and is based in Oceanside, California with additional offices in North America, Central/South America, Europe, India, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Turkey, Israel, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific.

Hydranautics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nitto Denko Corp.

 

Office of the Foreign Assets Control (OFAC):

 

The company is not listed on the OFAC list.

The Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List is a publication of OFAC which lists individuals and organizations with whom United States citizens and permanent residents are prohibited from doing business.

 

Suppliers include:

 

HATTORI TAKESHI CO., LTD.
2-16-8,NISHIKI, NAKA-KU NAGOYA 480-0003 JAPAN

 

EIN:                  95-2949422

 

Staff:                 275 + part time

 

Operations & branches:

 

At the headquarters, we find a factory, warehouse and office, owned.

 

The Company maintains several branches in the U.S.

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS & MANAGERS

 

Shareholders:

 

NITTO DENKO AMERICA INC.

Fremont, CA 94538 – USA

 

which is a subsidiary of:

 

NITTO DENKO CORPORATION

Grand Front Osaka, Tower A, 32-33 Floor, 4-20, Ofuka-cho

Kita-ku, Osaka, 530-0011, Japan

 

Management:

 

Brett ANDREWS has been Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Hydranautics in October 2013.

He served as its Vice President of Sales & Marketing, President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Andrews has over 18 years of experience in the water treatment chemical field. He served as Global Business Manager for Nalco's membrane strategic business unit.

Mr. Andrews is a graduate of Thames Valley University, UK (Chemistry) and North London University, UK (Polymer Technology).

 

K. Scott JACKSON serves as Vice President of Business Operations.

He held senior management roles in the desalination and membrane application industry for more than 24 years, with extensive experience in new and emerging technology companies.

Mr. Jackson began his professional career in the U.S. House of Representatives where he served as Senior Legislative Analyst active in a variety of public policy issues.

 

Subsidiaries

And partnership:                        None

 

 

FINANCIALS

 

In United States, privately held corporations are not required to publish any financials.

 

On a direct call, a financial assistant controlled the present report.

 

Sales declared for year 2013 is in the range of USD 150,000,000=

 

The business is profitable.

 

Banks:  Bank of America

 

 

LEGAL FILINGS

 

Legal filings & complaints:

 

As of today date, there is no legal filing pending with the Courts.

 

Secured debts summary (UCC):

 

 

 

Filing Number

Filing Type

Filing Date

 

Lapse Date

 

 

13-7355905098

Financing Statement

04/12/2013

 

04/12/2018

Secured Party  Organization

KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS USA, INC.

10201 CENTURION PARKWAY NORTH,
JACKSONVILLE, FL 32256

 

 

 

Filing Number

Filing Type

Filing Date

 

Lapse Date

 

 

10-7224447990

Financing Statement

03/03/2010

 

03/03/2015

Secured Party  Organization

CIT TECHNOLOGY FINANCING SERVICES, INC.

10201 CENTURION PARKWAY NORTH
JACKSONVILLE, FL 32256

 

 

 

Filing Number

Filing Type

Filing Date

 

Lapse Date

 

 

09-7192867211

Financing Statement

04/06/2009

 

04/06/2014

Secured Party  Organization

DELL FINANCIAL SERVICES L.L.C.

12234 N. IH-35,

AUSTIN, TX 78753

 

 

 

Filing Number

Filing Type

Filing Date

 

Lapse Date

 

 

08-7180129713

Financing Statement

12/02/2008

 

12/02/2013

Secured Party  Organization

KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS USA INC

100 WILLIAMS DRIVE,
RAMSEY, NJ 07446

 

 

 

Filing Number

Filing Type

Filing Date

 

Lapse Date

 

 

00-33060299

Financing Statement

11/13/2000 08:00

 

11/14/2015

Secured Party  Organization

DEL FINANCIAL SERVICES, L.P.

14050 SUMMIT DR

AUSTIN, TX 78758

 

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COMPANY CREDIT HISTORY

 

Trade references:

 

Date reported:    March 2014

High credit:        USD 25,000

Now owing:                    0

Past due:                      0

Last purchase:   February 2014

Line of business:            Office supply

Paying status:   6 days beyond terms

 

Date reported:    March 2014

High credit:        USD 350,000

Now owing:                    0

Past due:                      0

Last purchase:   February 2014

Line of business:            Payroll

Paying status:   As agreed

 

Date reported:    March 2014

High credit:        USD 2,000

Now owing:                    0

Past due:                      0

Last purchase:   February 2014

Line of business:            Telecommunications

Paying status:   5 days beyond terms

 

Domestic credit history:

 

Domestic credit history appears as follow:

 

Monthly Payment Trends - Recent Activity

 

 

Date

Balance

Current

Up to 30 DBT

31-60 DBT

61-90 DBT

>90 DBT

11/13

$103,200

97%

3%

0%

0%

0%

12/13

$119,600

81%

18%

1%

0%

0%

01/14

$97,000

84%

10%

5%

1%

0%

02/14

$111,800

47%

48%

0%

5%

0%

03/14

$86,900

50%

42%

0%

7%

1%

04/14

$112,100

78%

12%

5%

5%

0%

 

 

National Credit Bureaus gave a medium credit rating.

 

According to our credit analysts, during the last 6 months, domestic payments were made with an average of 5 to 10 days beyond terms.

 

International credit history:

 

Payments of imports are currently made with an average of 2 to 5 days beyond terms.

 

Other comments:

 

The Company maintains a regular business.

 

The bank confirmed some late payments.

 

The Company is in good standing.

This means that all local and federal taxes were paid on due date.

 

The risk is medium.

 

Our opinion:

 

 

A business connection may be conducted but we suggest you to check regularly the way of payments.

 


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.60.05

UK Pound

1

Rs.101.65

Euro

1

Rs.83.07

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

DIV

 

 

Report Prepared by :

PDT

 

               

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

 

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

 

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

 

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

 

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

 

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

 

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

 

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

Credit not recommended

 

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NB

New Business

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This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 

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