Company: CNEY
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001477932-25-007791
Chunk: 23

Company: CN ENERGY GROUP. INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 23
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 authorizations from regulatory authorities can increase the costs or delay the construction or commencement of production or otherwise affect the planned design and features of the facility. We cannot be sure that the operating entities will not exceed the budgeted costs of the facility or that the facility will commence production within the contemplated time frame, if at all. Budget overruns and delays with respect to the construction could have a material adverse impact on the operating entities’ results of operations.

Uncertainties as to the future of existing and planned environmental and health and safety laws and regulations, as well as delays of or changes to these laws and regulations, could have a material adverse effect on demand for the operating entities’ products.

The operating entities’ strategic growth initiatives rely significantly upon the enactment of restrictive environmental and health and safety laws and regulations, particularly those that would require industrial facilities to reduce the quantity of air and water pollutants they release. If stricter regulations are delayed, are not enacted as proposed, are enacted but subsequently repealed or amended to be less strict, or are enacted with prolonged phase-in periods, demand for the operating entities’ products could be materially and adversely affected and they may not be able to meet sales growth and return on invested capital targets, which could materially and adversely affect the operating entities’ financial results.

For example, a significant market driver for the operating entities’ activated carbon products and biomass electricity is the Notice on Issuing the Work Plan for Greenhouse Gas Emission Control During the 14th Five-Year Plan Period (the “Work Plan”) of the State Council of the PRC (the “State Council”), which supports the development of clean energy, including biomass electricity, and restricts the emission of industrial pollutants. Although the Work Plan would potentially promote the use of activated carbon products, we are unable to predict with certainty when and how the Work Plan will affect demand for the operating entities’ products. Changes to, or delays in implementing, the Work Plan could reduce or delay an expected increase in future demand for the operating entities’ products, which could have a material adverse effect on the operating entities’ business and financial results.

On the other hand, increased costs to utilities and other potential customers in complying with environmental regulations could limit production and reduce or delay an expected increase in demand for the operating entities’ products, which could also have a material adverse effect on the operating entities’ business and financial results.

Disclosure of the operating entities’ trade secrets and other proprietary information, or a failure to adequately protect these or the operating entities’ other intellectual property rights, could result in increased competition and