“Water is the most important problem facing agriculture and horticulture in Queensland. With our new plantings using EcoCover, we immediately reduced out watering regime by 50% (saving on water, transport and labor costs, as well as improving our public image) and will in all probability reduce this by a further 50% if our present monitoring continues to show such outstanding results”.

• Queensland City Council, Australia

Read what other EcoCover users say from around the world.

What makes EcoCover such an interesting and profitable business opportunity?  EcoCover is an environmentally sustainable investment that reuses waste, enhances plant growth and improves the soil.  There is no competition for EcoCover.  Plastic resin, made mainly from oil and natural gas  is price connected to the cost of dwindling fossil fuels.  Plastic is not sustainable economically or environmentally.  Over 12 million hectares of plastic is used annually in agriculture and landscaping around the world.  EcoCover replaces plastic.

Emerging markets are huge and essential, such as this January 18, 2007 UN announcement to plant one billion new trees this year to combat the effects of global warming.  EcoCover Weed Squares are an excellent mulch and weed control for tree seedlings.  A tree planting project in Australia recently used 84,000 square meters of EcoCover.  To mulch a billion trees would take about 480  EcoCover manufacturing plants running 3 shifts 5 days a week 240 days to create a billion square meters of EcoCover Mulch Mat.  Sale price of a billion Weed Squares would be approximately US $150 billion. Time to repay the manufacturing plant investment? Less than 8 months.

There are lots of profitable opportunities and ideas available for business investment but few, if any, like EcoCover and few that are organic.  Are other ideas sustainable?

That depends on your view of the future.  The forward thinking inventors of EcoCover were in the plastic film and plastic mulch business in New Zealand.  Plastic film and mulch are commodities.  EcoCover is brand-able, and patented.  The future will be much different from the cheap energy world of the past 50 years.  Successful businesses and products in the future will be compatible with Mother Nature, have low input costs, be energy efficient and environmentally neutral or positive.  EcoCover meets all of these requirements.

Agricultural productivity improvements will be in great demand as population increases, energy costs rise and environmental wisdom grows to realize that we cannot continue to pollute the planet with poisonous chemicals and non biodegradable materials used in agriculture.  Landfills are filling up.  Taking up and disposing of agricultural plastic is a significant expense for growers and a major environmental problem for all of us.  EcoCover solves these problems.  Till it in and replant, that's all there is to it.

News Item January 29, 2007: Organic Farming Is Here to Stay

The EcoCover business opportunity proposition is to purchase one or more manufacturing plants which you own outright with a license to manufacture patented EcoCover products.

• You need about Rand 16 million in investment and working capital, less for an already established business with current cash flow.
   
• You are purchasing a complete automated manufacturing line and ancillary equipment to manufacture the products.
   
• The purchase price includes on-site installation, start-up and commissioning.
   
• The purchase price includes training for your workers and maintenance personnel.
   
• You have the right to manufacture EcoCover products under license.
   
• You get a head start marketing program so that you can begin sampling and selling the products before the plant is in operation.

Besides investment funding, what else do you need?

• A 930 square meter (or larger) building or manufacturing floor space, preferably with floor to ceiling clearance of 7 to 8 meters.
   
• Basic utilities including 3 phase electricity, a source of heating gas (natural, propane, LNG, butane) and potable water - about 600 liters per shift of production.
   
• Material handling equipment (a fork lift truck or cranes) and storage racks
   
• Five plant workers, an office administrator and a plant manager-salesperson

EcoCover new product developments are ongoing.  For example, the manufacturing plant opportunity in early 2005 was:

• The EcoCover plant on site commissioned (meaning installed, started up, workers trained, trials run)
   
• The manufacturing plant capable of producing standard mulch mat and weed squares
   
• Positive results from early research findings

The present manufacturing plant opportunity is:

• The EcoCover plant on site commissioned (meaning installed, started up, workers trained, trials run)
   
• The EcoCover plant is now capable of producing mulch mat, weed squares, EcoCrop mat, EcoCoverRF™ (Hessian reinforced EcoCover) + new derivatives (EcoPotTops), hanging basket liners, etc. with the primary processes all run on the same manufacturing line.
   
• The new EcoPin™ as a stand alone highly profitable product, see www.ecopinusa.com useful as biodegradable landscape pins and temporary survey markers.
   
• Additional plant features that include: in line slitting and cutting (at no additional cost) which saves a secondary manufacturing process; new glue system and changeover spray bars; faster output (EcoCrop Mat line speed); new software package for full automatic start up, monitoring, shut down and operation.
   
• Positive feedback from EcoCover users all around the world.
   
• Significant new research validating new product claims with outstanding results with more research in process (university research in India and Norway)
   
• Continuing new product development. See EcoCover product developments in process here.

The value added through continuing research and development is as great as the initial offer, and this is all at no additional cost. There are other incentives for the first plant purchasers in the around the world including South Africa.  EcoCover is doing everything possible to make this a great opportunity.

If an EcoCover plant investment sounds like the right profitable business opportunity for you, please call me today at 001+931 967 2053 to discuss or email ron.castle@ecocover-america.com and ask me to call you.  Include your name and mailing address and I will mail you a sample of the EcoCover product.  An executive overview of the product, an executive plant investment overview, a detailed account of EcoCover's development, research reports and other details are all available by email.  Complete a confidentiality agreement I have working financial models in Excel, a DVD and other information I can send you immediately by email and mail.

Learn more about the EcoCover ground floor opportunity.  Please contact me today.

“It always seems impossible until its done.” Nelson Mandella
"The harder you work, the luckier you get.” Gary Player

Cheers,

Ron Castle
EcoCover Business Development

If you are outside of South Africa, please inquire.  I will send you the information and get you connected with the EcoCover representative in your area.