Re Contract Gains

TEG Group (The) PLC 05 April 2007 For release 7:00am 5 April 2007 The TEG GROUP PLC (TEG) ('TEG' or 'the Company') Re: Contract Gains TEG to be Awarded Waste Contract from Greater Manchester Waste Limited and Calderdale Council The TEG Group Plc ('TEG' or 'the Company'), the AIM-listed cutting edge green technology company, which converts organic wastes into natural organic fertiliser, announces it has been named as a successful bidder for a 2 year contract ('Interim Contract') to process a total of approximately 44,000 tonnes of green and garden waste from the Greater Manchester region. The Interim Contract with Greater Manchester Waste Limited will be finalised in April and the contract is expected to commence on 1 May 2007. The Contract is worth approximately £900,000 over the 2 year term. The contract includes an extension of up to 1 year. The Interim Contract is a transitional arrangement to cover the period until new plants to process both food waste and green and garden waste are in place under the terms of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority's PFI Contract ('PFI Contract').It comes on the back of TEG's announcement on 29 January 2007 that it is a principal sub-contractor to the Viridor-Laing consortium that has been awarded preferred bidder status for the PFI contract in which TEG is the exclusive supplier of In Vessel Composting ('IVC') technology to the consortium. The Interim Contract is for supply to the TEG plants at Todmorden and at Sherdley Farm, Preston and this will provide the base green waste supply required by the 2 plants over the lifetime of the contract. The first two lines at the Todmorden facility are expected to be on line in advance of the commencement of the contract. Lines 3 and 4 are expected to be completed later in 2007. In addition, the Company has been awarded a contract by Calderdale Council to process food waste from its forthcoming collection trials at the Todmorden facility. The contract will last for 40 weeks, the lifetime of the initial trial, which will be reviewed by the Council following the initial term. Commenting for TEG, Chief Executive Mick Fishwick said: 'We are delighted to have secured this new business with Greater Manchester Waste Limited and Calderdale Council. It represents further waste streams secured for Todmorden, which should come on line in April in time for the commencement of the contracts. We expect to secure a number of further contracts in the near future that will fill the capacity of the first 2 lines at the facility. Construction at Todmorden is well ahead of the original schedule and this has allowed us to bid competitively for these contracts'. ENDS Contact: The TEG Group Plc Tel: 01772 314100 Michael Fishwick, Chief Executive Adventis Financial PR Tel: 020 7034 4758 Tarquin Edwards 07879 458 364 Canaccord Adams (Nomad) Tel : 020 7050 6742/020 7050 6750 Chris Bowman/Robert Finlay Editor's Notes: TEG provides an in-vessel composting technology, which is one of the few approved technologies capable of treating animal by-product (ABP) waste. Plant economics are predominantly driven by the gate fees charged, rather than the value of the end product (compost). The TEG process is an economic alternative to landfill and is entirely LATS compliant. The Silo Cage system, one of the few technologies in Europe capable of treating this waste, is a natural process producing compost as an end product, used as an excellent soil conditioner that fertilises, retains moisture, provides structure and reduces the incidence of plant disease. TEG's Silo-Cages are housed in self-contained buildings, are not unsightly and are environmentally friendly. Customers include local authorities, waste management companies, food processors, farmers and landowners. The Company's expanding market is driven by increasingly stringent EU and UK legislation regulating the treatment and disposal of organic waste. Statutory targets for the diversion of waste from landfill increase annually through to 2020, increasing TEG's market opportunity year on year. The Waste Resource Action Programme estimates that 450 composting plants will be needed by 2020 to satisfy local authority requirements alone, and there is increasing demand from the private sector driven by ABP legislation. NOFCO is a marketing company specialising in the development of end markets for compost products, an important aspect of all plant developments and key to local authority development. The company has an expertise in the development of agricultural and horticultural markets and this capability is to be provided to customers to enhance TEG's overall service offering. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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