Trade show update

RNS Number : 4700R

Symphony Environmental Tech. PLC

28 October 2013

 



SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PLC

("Symphony", "Group" or the "Company")

RECORD ATTENDANCE AT SYMPHONY'S STAND AT K-SHOW AND RECORD VALUE OF ORDERS

Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc (AIM: SYM), global specialists in advanced plastics and tyre recycling technologies - in harmony with public health & the environment, is pleased to announce that it attended the K-Show in Dusseldorf, Europe's largest exhibition for the plastics industry, attracting customers and suppliers from all over the world.  This year's K-Show proved to be the best so far for Symphony, with a record attendance at its stand and a record value of orders placed during the show.

Said Symphony's CEO, Michael Laurier, who was present throughout the event "There was exceptional demand for d2w - our well-established oxo-biodegradable masterbatch, as the best and least expensive option for biodegradation of plastics.  It turns plastic into a biodegradable material at the end of its useful life.  Great interest was also shown in our new d2p range of anti-fungal and anti-microbial plastics, and our d2t range of anti-counterfeiting technologies."

"More than 600 requests for further information were recorded by Symphony's staff, from end users, processors and raw material producers."

Visits to the stand were made by many members of the Oxo-biodegradable Plastics Association and by Symphony's distributors from around the world.  Many plastics recyclers also visited for confirmation of the compatibility of d2w with post-consumer plastics recycling.

For further information, please contact:

Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc
Michael Laurier, CEO	Tel: [phone]
Ian Bristow, FD
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe
Mark Percy / David Foreman (Corporate Finance)	Tel: [phone]
Paul Jewell / David Banks (Corporate Broking)

NOTES TO EDITORS:

About Symphony Environmental Technologies plc

Symphony has developed oxo-biodegradable technology which turns plastic at the end of its service-life into a material with a completely different molecular structure.  It is then no longer a plastic and can be bioassimilated in the open environment in the same way as a leaf. The technology is branded d2w® and appears as a droplet logo on many thousands of tonnes of plastic packaging and other plastic products around the world. In some countries oxo-biodegradable plastic is mandatory.  For a video of d2w® plastic degrading see http://degradable.net/play-videos/4.

Symphony also supplies d2p technology that can be used in most types of plastic products to help reduce contamination and deterioration by harmful bacteria and fungi. See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61WdX-_JjmwIn addition Symphony has developed the d2Detector®, a portable device which analyses plastics and detects counterfeit products.  Symphony's d2t tagging and tracer technology is also available for further security. See www.d2t.net

Symphony has a diverse and growing customer-base and has established itself as an international business with 78 distributors around the world. Products made with Symphony's plastic technologies are now available in 97 countries and in many different product applications. Symphony is certified to ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards.

Symphony is a member of The British Plastics Federation (BPF), the Oxo-biodegradable Plastics Association (www.biodeg.org) (OPA), the Society for the Chemical Industry (UK), and the Pacific Basin Environmental Council. Symphony actively participates in the Committee work of the British Standards Institute (BSI), the American Standards Organisation (ASTM), the European Standards Organisation (CEN), and the International Standards Organisation (ISO).

In addition, Symphony Recycling Technologies ("SRT") is developing innovative and cost-effective recycling systems to convert scrap tyres and other waste-streams into valuable products, and has recently announced its "SymTyre S300." (http://symphonyrecycling.net/technology/symtyres300/)  This is a compact machine which can flat-pack a scrap tyre in under a minute, making huge savings in the space needed to store and transport scrap tyres, with resulting savings of cost, road-space, and harmful emissions, and reducing the unsightly and uneconomic use of thousands of acres of land for tyre-dumps. The machine also prevents scrap tyres being used on the road again, and protects against the spread of disease by mosquitoes breeding in rainwater which collects in the tyres.  This is the first stage of an integrated tyre-recycling technology which SRT is developing.

Further information on the Symphony Group can be found at www.symphonyenvironmental.com.

 

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