Periodic Products Invited to Participate in the Critical Materials Institute Workshop on Rare Earth Elements

Fort Lauderdale, FL – December 28, 2015

Periodic Products Inc. today announced it has been invited to participate in the 2016 Critical Materials Institute (CMI) Workshop on Rare Earths and Uranium from Phosphate Ore. The Company will be presenting results of its recent study on the recovery of rare earth elements from phosphate mining waste products. The CMI workshop is hosted by the Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute, and will be held in Bartow, Florida, January 19 and 20, 2016.

The Critical Materials Institute (CMI) was created by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2013, and is tasked with developing solutions to the domestic shortages of rare earth metals and other materials critical for the U.S. energy industry and national security interests. Institute members include The Ames Laboratory, The Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Colorado School of Mines, the Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute, General Electric, Cytec Inc., and United Technologies.

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Periodic Products to Present Findings of Rare Earth Element Study at American Chemical Society National Meeting

Fort Lauderdale, FL – December 22, 2015

Periodic Products Inc. today announced it will present the results of its rare earth element study, Extraction and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate Ore and Phosphate Mining Waste Products Using 1-Octadecene, Polymer with 2,5-Furandione, Sodium Salt, at the upcoming 251st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, California, March 13-17, 2016.

Attendees to the American Chemical Society National Meeting include approximately 13,000 chemists, chemical engineers, academicians, graduate and undergraduate students, and other related professionals from around the world. Each meeting features presentations organized into technical symposia that highlight significant research advances in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.

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Periodic Products Awarded Taiwanese Patent for Chelation Technology and Related Applications

Fort Lauderdale, FL – December 17, 2015

Periodic Products today announced that the Company has been awarded a Patent from the Intellectual Property Office of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC). The Patent, No. I-495661, is for the Company’s chelation technology, including its proprietary polymers and related plastics and fibers applications.

The Company now holds 18 international patents for its family of polymers.

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Periodic Products Announces Rare Earth Element Study Findings Published

Fort Lauderdale, FL – December 17, 2015

Periodic Products Inc. today announced that the results of its study on the extraction of rare earth elements from phosphates has been published by the Florida Industry and Phosphate Research Institute (FIPR).

The study, The Extraction and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate using PX-107 and Chelok Polymers, confirmed that the Company’s technology successfully recovers rare earth elements (REEs) from waste by-products produced during fertilizer manufacturing. The study demonstrated that the Company’s technology produced yields equal to those currently obtained from mining raw ore containing REEs, and further isolated two commercially important rare earth elements – neodymium and lanthanum – in high concentrations.

The study was co-funded by Periodic Products and FIPR, a scientific research center created by the Florida State Legislature. The results of the study are available on the FIPR website.

“We are pleased with the results of this initial study,” said Dr. Joseph Laurino, president and CEO of Periodic Products. “The study demonstrates our technology’s capacity to extract and recover these valuable rare earth metals.”

When fully implemented, the company’s technology could recover nearly 120,000 tons of rare earth metals – the current United States annual demand – according to Laurino.

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Periodic Products Awarded Philippines Patent for Chelation Technology and Related Applications

Fort Lauderdale, FL – October 28, 2015

Periodic Products today announced that the Company has been awarded a Letters Patent from the Republic of The Philippines. The Patent, No. 1-2020-501053, is for the Company’s chelation technology, including its proprietary polymers and related applications.

The Company now holds 17 international patents for its family of polymers.

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Periodic Products to Participate in Global Technology Metals Market Summit in Toronto, Canada

Fort Lauderdale, FL – October 13, 2015

Periodic Products Inc. today announced it will be participating in the Global Technology Metals Market Summit on October 14, 2015 in Toronto, Canada. Joseph P. Laurino, Ph.D, the Company’s President, CEO and Chief Science Officer, will be a member of the panel discussing “Future High-Tech Uses and Sources of Technology Metals.”

In particular, Dr. Laurino, will explain how the Company’s polymer technologies can efficiently and economically extract rare earth elements from phosphate mining waste, coal ash and rare earth element ore.

The Summit brings together nearly 80 of the world’s leaders in the technology metals industry. The international conference is sponsored by InvestorIntel.com.

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Periodic Products Technology Successfully Recovers Rare Earth Elements

Fort Lauderdale, FL – September 3, 2015

Periodic Products Inc. today released preliminary results of a joint Florida Industry and Phosphate Research Institute (FIPR) study confirming that the Company’s technology successfully recovered rare earth elements from waste by-products produced during fertilizer manufacturing.

Rare earth elements are currently used in the manufacture of cell phones, hybrid engines, specialty magnets, computer hard drives, and an increasing number of electronic components and other consumer products. Rare earth elements are also vital raw materials for the production of military equipment, and have been designated as critical materials for domestic manufacturing by the US Government.

The study, which was co-funded by FIPR – a scientific research center created by the Florida State Legislature – showed that the amount of rare earth elements recovered from waste using the Company’s technology equaled that currently obtained from raw ore. Further, two commercially important rare earth elements – neodymium and lanthanum – were isolated in high concentrations from the waste recovered by the Company’s technology. Industry experts have estimated that approximately 90,000 tons of rare earth elements are discarded with various phosphate mining waste by-products annually.

When the technology is fully deployed, the Company believes approximately 60,000 tons of rare earth elements can be recovered annually from phosphate waste. That figure represents nearly nine times the current domestically mined production level.

According to Dr. Joseph Laurino, president and CEO of Periodic Products, “These waste by-products represent a viable repository of rare earth elements never before accessible to the mining industry.”

“The financial and environmental costs associated with recovering rare earth elements from waste is significantly less than the respective costs of obtaining these elements from raw mined ore,” Laurino adds.

David McLaren, vice-president of business development at Periodic Products, explained that previous recovery attempts were not commercially viable. “Due to various limitations, such as high production cost, low efficiency, impact on fertilizer yield and purity, and the inability to scale up the process, recovery of these substances was just not possible,” said McLaren. “Our technology eliminates all of these limitations while significantly reducing the environmental impact of rare earth element production.”

According to McLaren, the Company’s technology will aid efforts to achieve domestic rare earth element independence, a directive of both the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense.

Detailed results of this study will be presented by Dr. Joseph Laurino at the 30th Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration & Dreyer Conference at the Lakeland Center in Lakeland, Florida on October 8, 2015.

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Periodic Products Awarded Four European Patents for Chelation Technology and Related Applications

Fort Lauderdale, FL– April 28, 2015

Periodic Products today announced that the Company has been awarded four European Patents for its chelation technology, including its proprietary polymers and related applications.

The patents, collectively issued as Patent No. 2215140 with the European Patent Office in Munich, Germany, are individually registered in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy. These four countries represent the largest economies in the European Union (EU).

With the issue of this multiple patent, the Company now holds 15 international patents for its family of polymers.

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Periodic Products Awarded Chinese Patent for Plastics and Fibers and Related Applications

Fort Lauderdale, FL– March 30, 2015

Periodic Products today announced that the Company has been awarded Chinese Patent No. ZL201080029231.5 for its proprietary plastics and fibers. The patent, which is registered with the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China, also covers all related applications of the Company’s polymer technology.

The Chinese patent is the Company’s 11th international patent for its family of polymers.

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