ADURAduro Clean Technologies Inc.
Industry Canada smallcap Updated 27 Sep 2026 Price 23 Oct 2026
If management hits its targets, one share by the end of 2029
Held at C$13.67
Promises vs. what happened
12 claims · 8 decksEvery target management put in a slide deck, and whether they hit it, missed it, or quietly dropped it.
The dates slip and the numbers disappear. Two of ten settled promises held. The 2023 revenue and break-even targets were dropped without a word, and every plant milestone came late.
| Promise | Made in | What happened | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choose the plant site | Q3 '25 | Chemelot, Jan '26 | Held |
| About C$10M a year of burn | Q1 '26 | C$9.9M, plus C$4.8M capex | Held |
| Lab expansion Q3 '23 | Q3 '23 | done in 2024 | Late |
| 2–4 new patents in 2024 | Q1 '24 | one filing | Late |
| Detailed plant design in 2025 | Q1 '25 | early works only, Aug '26 | Late |
| +$90M recurring revenue by year 5 | Q3 '23 | gone after one deck | Dropped |
| Commercial sites, 2028–29 | Q3 '25 | dropped from later decks | Open |
| First plant starts on farm plastic | Q1 '26 | not built | Open |
| Commercial units '25/26, break-even '26/27 | Q3 '23 | first plant now early 2028 | Missed |
| Two customer collaborations in 2024 | Q3 '24 | still one in Aug '26 | Missed |
| Pilot plant running, early Q3 '25 | Q1 '25 | Feb '26 | Missed |
| Ontario demo plant with NexGen | Q1 '26 | plant went to the Netherlands | Missed |
What they’re pitching
the headline page, deck by deckThe headline from each quarterly results deck over two years, so you can see what they want you to focus on, and when it changes.
'23Q1
'24Q2
'24Q3
'24Q1
'25Q3
'25Q1
'26Q2
'26
Market sizePage one since Q3 '25
Vs pyrolysisFirst seen Q3 '23
Licence moneyFirst seen Q3 '23
CustomersFirst seen Q1 '24
Pilot plantFirst seen Q2 '24
First plantFirst seen Q3 '25
Paraffinic crudeFirst seen Q2 '26
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Total addressable market by 2030
“Large total addressable markets”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, July 2023 · p. 5 ·
Total addressable market by 2030
“Partial upgrading of heavy crude & asphaltene to lighter crude products”
Deck Aduro Investor Presentation, January 2024 · p. 5 ·
Total addressable market by 2030
“Diverse recycling methods are needed to address global plastic waste problem. The chemical recycling services market is projected to increase from USD$ 15.7B in 2024 to USD$ 149B by 2034. (5)”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, September 2024 · p. 7 ·
Total addressable market by 2030
“TOTAL POTENTIAL”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, January 2025 · p. 4 ·
Total addressable market by 2030
“Multiple Potential Market Applications”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, September 2025 · p. 4 ·
Total addressable market by 2030
“POTENTIAL TOTAL”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, March 2026 · p. 4 ·
Total addressable market by 2030
“POTENTIAL TOTAL”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, May 2026 · p. 4 ·
Chemolysis as a fourth route, against pyrolysis
“CHEMOLYSIS: A fourth new next-generation chemical recycling approach to convert diverse feedstock”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, July 2023 · p. 6 ·
Chemolysis as a fourth route, against pyrolysis
“Our HydrochemolyticTM Technology (HCT) offers a novel, game-changing approach in chemical recycling. HCT can transform more plastic waste into valuable material more sustainably and efficiently than other approaches and technologies today.”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, May 2024 · p. 7 ·
Chemolysis as a fourth route, against pyrolysis
“A new chemical recycling technology, a better approach to converting diverse feedstocks”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, September 2024 · p. 6 ·
Chemolysis as a fourth route, against pyrolysis
“Expanding the chemical recycling landscape with an alternative to thermolysis-based approaches”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, March 2026 · p. 5 ·
Licensing-model economics and a proforma forecast
“Use Case Illustration of Economics: Owned & Operated Vs. Licensing”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, July 2023 · p. 10 ·
Licensing-model economics and a proforma forecast
“Use Case Illustration of Licensing Model Economics – Polyethylene”
Deck Aduro Investor Presentation, January 2024 · p. 16 ·
Customer Engagement Program
“Launched CEP to facilitate early-stage engagement with customers. It starts with Technology Evaluation.”
Deck Aduro Investor Presentation, January 2024 · p. 10 ·
Customer Engagement Program
“Convert existing Customer Engagement participants from technology evaluation to technology collaborations2”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, May 2024 · p. 10 ·
Customer Engagement Program
“Our 2024 target is to move 2 Technology Evaluation engagements to a Technology Collaboration contracts.”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, September 2024 · p. 21 ·
Customer Engagement Program
“Launched CEP to facilitate early-stage engagement with prospective customers.”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, January 2025 · p. 16 ·
Customer Engagement Program
“Stage-gate engagement to evaluate, refine, and commercialize the technology with early adopters.”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, September 2025 · p. 9 ·
Customer Engagement Program
“Commercial engagement testing, feedstocks, and scale-up”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, March 2026 · p. 9 ·
Pilot plant (NGP) and scale-up path
“A key priority in 2024 is to finalize the design of the Next Generation Process.”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, May 2024 · p. 11 ·
Pilot plant (NGP) and scale-up path
“Delivery and commission of NGP Pilot Plant by early Q3”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, January 2025 · p. 12 ·
Pilot plant (NGP) and scale-up path
“NGP Pilot Plant - Commissioning & start of material trials program”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, September 2025 · p. 12 ·
Pilot plant (NGP) and scale-up path
“11 o 10 kg/hr – Pilot Plant Scale o Operating since early 2026 in London, Ontario o Industrial configuration replicating key FOAK conditions o Flexible design enables tuning of process parameters o Supports customer trials on real-world feedstocks o Generates scale-up data to support FOAK design and deployment o Supports training and operational readiness for FOAK deployment o 1,000 kg/hr – First-of-a-Kind Industria…”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, March 2026 · p. 11 ·
Pilot plant (NGP) and scale-up path
“Pilot Plant (10kg/hr)”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, May 2026 · p. 9 ·
First-of-a-kind industrial plant at Chemelot
“Fabrication 1 Ton per Hour - Demonstration Plant”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, September 2025 · p. 11 ·
First-of-a-kind industrial plant at Chemelot
“11 o 10 kg/hr – Pilot Plant Scale o Operating since early 2026 in London, Ontario o Industrial configuration replicating key FOAK conditions o Flexible design enables tuning of process parameters o Supports customer trials on real-world feedstocks o Generates scale-up data to support FOAK design and deployment o Supports training and operational readiness for FOAK deployment o 1,000 kg/hr – First-of-a-Kind Industria…”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, March 2026 · p. 11 ·
First-of-a-kind industrial plant at Chemelot
“Industrial Plant (10,000 MT/yr)”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, May 2026 · p. 9 ·
Paraffinic crude upgrading
“Application of Hydrochemolytic Technology for Upgrading Paraffinic Crude Oil”
Deck Aduro Corporate Presentation, May 2026 · p. 10 ·
What they keep talking about · 8
The themes that show up deck after deck, and the ones that disappear.
- Market size
- The same US$121B / US$120B / US$50B by 2030 market slide in seven of eight decks; 'total addressable' became 'total potential addressable' in 2025.
- Licence money
- Plant economics and +$90M of recurring revenue at 80% margins in July '23; gone after January '24 and never restated.
- Customers
- The customer programme and its participant count to January '25; the paying-customer tally left after January '25, and one collaboration is all it has produced.
- Pilot plant
- Promised for Q3 '25, running from February '26; the scale-up path is the decks' spine from 2024.
- First plant
- The 10,000 t-a-year plant at Chemelot from March '26, 'planned for construction', with no capital cost on any slide.
- Paraffinic crude
- May '26 only: a new petroleum application, added while the plastics plant is still uncosted.
- New
- Cash on hand from September '25; from March '26 a C$10M-a-year burn and an analyst-coverage line naming brokers that underwrote the offerings.
- Quiet
- Patent counts and the paying-customer count after January '25; licence economics after January '24; the commercial-sites row after September '25.
Every quarterly report we’ve saved · 10
The press releases and shareholder letters behind this page.
- Q1 FY2025 release · 6-K 5 Nov 2024
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Archived as text; the links open the copies filed on EDGAR or the investor-relations site.
What analysts asked them
none archivedNo call transcript or briefing write-up is archived for this company.
Who’s in charge, who’s selling
read from the filings · 7 Oct 2026Shareholder votes against the board and pay, plus which executives have been selling their own shares.
Tier 1 · live
The plant's cost is unstated and unfunded; the money will be new shares
Shares have more than doubled since 2022 through three US offerings and a placement. No filing gives the first plant's capital cost; about US$21M of the shelf is left and the share plan is a rolling 15%.
Tier 2 · stable
The founder runs the board, and the board has one committee
Vicus is CEO and executive chair with 24.9%; two of five directors are executives. No compensation or nominating committee: the board sets the CEO's pay. C$77,610 advanced to the CEO in 2021–23 is still owed, interest-free.
Tier 2 · live
Paid promotion before the raises; the covering brokers are the bankers
Retail-investor campaigns from Sep to Nov '25 were followed by the December offering. Water Tower Research is paid for research; brokers with positive ratings were paid on the offerings.
Tier 2 · stable
A small auditor, unaudited controls
De Visser Gray audits for C$40,000–45,000 a year; as an emerging growth company Aduro has no auditor report on controls. Stock pay was 145% of R&D in FY2026.
Tier 3 · stable
Two independent directors sat on boards of companies that failed
The audit chair was CFO of DionyMed (receivership) and a director of James E Wagner (CCAA); Scott was a director of StateHouse (cease-trade order, bankruptcy).
Where shareholders voted no
At each annual meeting shareholders vote on who sits on the board, what the executives are paid and whether the company may create more shares. These are the votes that drew the most "no"s at the last two meetings: the shares voted against (or withheld) each year, then what share of all votes cast that was. Under each one, what the vote was about and what a no means.
| 2024 | 2025 | Share 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott (audit)A board seat. Shareholders vote to keep this person on the board, the group that hires, pays and can fire the CEO. A no, or a withheld vote, says they want this director out, often because of the committee they sit on or a decision they signed off. | 0.1M | not read | — |
| Vicus (CEO, chair)A board seat. | 0.02M | not read | — |
| Auditor (De Visser Gray)The auditor. Keeping the outside accounting firm that checks the company's books. This almost always passes; a sizeable no means shareholders doubt the audit or think the firm has been in place too long. | 0.01M | not read | — |
| Kampian (audit chair)A board seat. | 0.003M | not read | — |
Insiders who sold the most stock
Reported sales by executives and directors, biggest first.
| No Form 4s: MJDS filer | Sold | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Any insider | not on EDGAR | Canadian insiders report to SEDI, which was not read |
| Vicus, CEO | no sale | moved 1.0M shares to a family company for non-voting preferred shares, Sep '26 (13D/A) |
| Directors and officers | ~32% | of shares, at the AIF date (Aug '26) |