对尼古拉赌注的短卖家有一个新的目标

Short seller Hindenburg Research — fresh off a赢得电动汽车制造商Nikola的简短赌注— has struck again, calling sustainable plastic manufacturing company Loop Industries “smoke and mirrors with no viable technology” and alleging that it has never made money.

Hindenburg占据了基于蒙特利尔循环的短处。

该研究公司据称报告posted on its website on Tuesday that former Loop employees it interviewed claimed Loop operated two separate labs: “one reserved for the company’s two twenty-something lead scientist brothers and their father, where incredible results were achieved, and a separate lab where rank-and-file employees were unable to replicate the supposedly breakthrough results.”

亚博赞助欧冠尚未独立核实汉登堡报告中的每一项索赔，而是谈到匿名条件的前雇员称该报告准确无误。

在这个故事最初发布后发表的声明中，循环表示Hindenburg的报告包含“事实不准确”。

“汉登堡研究直接与循环联系，循环行业认为汉登堡研究已经完成了本报告所需的尽职调查，”该公司在声明中添加。“它所做的索赔是毫无根据的，不正确的，或者基于循环技术的第一次迭代，称为Gen 1，它在2014年和2017年之间使用。2017年，循环重新发明了它的过程并开发了其Gen 2技术，这是循环商业化项目的核心。“

Hindenburg表示，它花了六个月调查公司，采访竞争对手，行业专家和公司合作伙伴，并审查广泛的文件和诉讼记录。Hindenburg表示，它也与监管机构分享了其调查结果。

早期市场交易中的循环股价截至近35％。

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循环在其网站上说,它的使命是“accelerate the world’s shift toward sustainable PET plastic and polyester fiber and away from our dependence on fossil fuels.” Hindenburg alleged in its report that the company’s earlier claims of breaking down PET, a common form of plastic, to its base chemicals at a recovery rate of 100 percent were “technically and industrially impossible” and that the company’s claims that it produced “industrial grade purity” base chemicals from PET were also false.

“Former employees painted a picture of a chaotic company, whose lead scientists are twenty-something ‘liars’, with no relevant work experience other than Loop, that were able to achieve ‘impossible’ results in a secret second lab that rank-and-file employees weren’t allowed to access,” Hindenburg’s report said. “Loop’s supposed proprietary process is a black box that has not shown itself to be more efficient or cost effective than comparable solutions, contrary to the company’s claims, according to former employees and outside experts.”

根据Hindenburg的说法，循环组成了伙伴关系，鼓励投资者基础和借助可靠的技术，包括可口可乐，百事可乐和丹尼的可信度。但卖空的卖家表示，可口可乐和百事可乐不会确认是否将任何塑料作为与循环合作的一部分回收，并且达巴尼的评论表明它没有从循环中购买任何塑料。Hindenburg表示，它怀疑“这些伙伴关系无处可去。”

Hindenburg further alleged that a former Loop employee told the firm that the company’s scientists, under pressure from Loop CEO Daniel Solomita, “were tacitly encouraged to lie about the results of the company’s process internally” and said it has obtained internal documents and photos to back up their claims.

Hindenburg引用了该公司的10月20日投资者演讲，该公司于2015年通过反向合并公开，称其分解宠物塑料的过程是“经过验证的”。

“换句话说，该公司声称已经发现如何将毫无价值的垃圾转化为纯金，这是杜邦，陶氏化学品等多亿元的化学公司，尽管努力已经大规模实现了大量的化学公司“Hindenburg在报告中写道。