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EQTEC PLC

29 October 2018

29 October 2018

EQTEC plc

("EQTEC" or the "Company")

Director share subscription and share issue

EQTEC plc (AIM: EQT), the technology solution company for waste gasification to energy projects, announces the following subscription for new shares in the Company's ordinary shares of EUR0.001 each ("Ordinary Shares") by certain Directors of the Board. The Ordinary Shares were issued by the Company to the below Directors at an issue price of 0.93 pence per Ordinary Share and were allotted on 26 October 2018.

Ian Pearson, Chairman of EQTEC, commented:

"Following recent agreements, the Company is well capitalised and is continuing to execute on its growth optimisation plan whilst maintaining tight cost control. Today's subscription by the Directors is a demonstration of our belief in the way the outcomes of the Strategic Review recently completed by Ian Price as CEO are being implemented as well as the execution of EQTEC's strategy going forward."

Details of the shares allotted to Directors are set out below:

 
 Director             Number of Ordinary   Allotment Price   Beneficial            Total per cent. 
                       Shares Allotted      per Ordinary      Interest following    held after 
                                            Share             the Purchase          the issue 
 Ian Pearson 
  Non-Executive 
  Chairman                  537,634           0.93 pence            537,634              0.03% 
                     -------------------  ----------------  --------------------  ---------------- 
 Ian Price 
  Chief Executive 
  Officer                   725,806           0.93 pence            725,806              0.04% 
                     -------------------  ----------------  --------------------  ---------------- 
 Gerry Madden 
  Finance Director         569,677           0.93 pence           1,386,817             0.08% 
                     -------------------  ----------------  --------------------  ---------------- 
 Tom Quigley 
  Non-Executive 
  Director                  193,548           0.93 pence            193,548              0.01% 
                     -------------------  ----------------  --------------------  ---------------- 
 

Under the agreement with the Company's Joint Broker VSA Capital Limited, advisor fees totaling GBP39,750 are to be converted into 4,274,194 Ordinary Shares in the Company at an issue price of 0.93 pence per share.

Application will be made for the admission to AIM of these 6,300,859 new ordinary shares and trading is expected to start on 2 November 2018.

Following admission, the Company will have a total of 1,804,744,243 Ordinary Shares in issue carrying voting rights. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries

 
 EQTEC plc                                     +353 (0)21 2409 056 
 Ian Price - Chief Executive Officer 
  Gerry Madden - Finance Director 
 
 Northland Capital Partners Limited - Nomad 
  and Broker                                   +44 (0)20 3861 6625 
 Tom Price / Dugald J. Carlean 
 
 Luther Pendragon - Financial PR               +44 (0)20 7618 9100 
 Harry Chathli / Alexis Gore / Joe Quinlan 
 

Notes to Editors

About EQTEC plc

EQTEC's business model involves sourcing and providing assistance in developing waste elimination projects to which it will ultimately sell its EQTEC Gasifier Technology ("EGT") and O&M services. EGT enables project developers to construct waste elimination plants and recover electrical and thermal energy from the waste streams.

EQTEC sources projects that have a local supply of waste in need of elimination and conversion. It builds relationships and brings together the developers, the waste owners, the building contractors and funders. It then supplies the energy recovery technology and provides engineering services to the projects. Furthermore, EQTEC will provide O&M services to the operating projects generating recurring revenues over the life of the projects.

The Company is quoted on AIM and trades as EQT. Further information on the Company can be found at www.eqtecplc.com

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further detail:

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

(Disclosure in relation to purchase of Ordinary Shares)

 
            1.   Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
                  / person closely associated 
 a)              Name 
                                               *    Ian Pearson - Non-Executive Chairman 
 
 
                                               *    Ian Price - Chief Executive Officer 
 
 
                                               *    Gerry Madden - Finance Director 
 
 
                                               *    Tom Quigley - Non-Executive Director 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
            2.   Reason for the Notification 
                ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)              Position/status             See 1(a) above for positions - all 
                                              Directors of the Company 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 b)              Initial notification        Initial notification 
                  /Amendment 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 3.              Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
                  auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
                ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)              Name                        EQTEC plc 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 b)              LEI                         63540085VSYVDEINJO04 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 4.              Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated 
                  for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
                  (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
                  have been conducted 
                ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)              Description of the          Ordinary Shares of 0.001 cent 
                  financial instrument, 
                  type of instrument 
                 Identification code         IE00BH3XCL94 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 b)              Nature of the transaction 
                                               *    Ian Pearson - purchase of Ordinary Shares 
 
 
                                               *    Ian Price - purchase of Ordinary Shares 
 
 
                                               *    Gerry Madden - purchase of Ordinary Shares 
 
 
                                               *    Tom Quigley - purchase of Ordinary Shares 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 c)              Price(s) and volume(s)      Ian Pearson: Price(s)      Volume(s) 
                                               0.93 pence    537,634 
                                                            ---------- 
 
                                              Ian Price: Price(s)      Volume(s) 
                                               0.93 pence    725,806 
                                                            ---------- 
 
                                              Gerry Madden: Price(s)      Volume(s) 
                                               0.93 pence    569,677 
                                                            ---------- 
 
                                              Tom Quigley: Price(s)      Volume(s) 
                                               0.93 pence    193,548 
                                                            ---------- 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 d)              Aggregated information:     See 4(c) above 
                   *    Aggregated volume 
 
 
                   *    Price 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 e)              Date of the transaction     26 October 2018 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 f)              Place of the transaction    London Stock Exchange AIM 
                --------------------------  -------------------------------------------------- 
 

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