for more information about stanelco click on the links.

driver's research page link
http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=7681#lastread
website link
http://www.stanelco.co.uk/index.htm

Page 5 of 7 if you wanna know more Alan.

http://www.gloveboxsociety.org/files/tech_library/tech-11.pdf

I just read all the post from last night theres a lot of analysing going on about who is supplying who, even though I run the Research Page I can not suss it out myself there has been so many announcement this year its no wonder we are all a bit confused. What I do know is that SEO are thinking very big take a look at the SEO statement regarding French government decision to eliminate all non-biodegradable plastic bags by January 2010.

Biotec has the capabilities to pioneer, innovate and commercialize biodegradable plastic bags. With the support of its owners Stanelco and SP Metal, Biotec is well placed to benefit from the policy and will be able to gear up manufacturing and have the capability to meet the demands of the French market by 2010, which will be in excess of one million tons.

Its all on the Research Page.

http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=7681#lastread

Thanks Bema and Greekman,
Told you I felt a stupid day coming on!!
I just have a nagging feeling there is an important part of the jigsaw that is out there and i just haven't spotted it yet. It could be good or bad, but I can't put my finger on it.
Both applications were something of a shock to me as I had considered neither, but the gauntlets one was more of a tease as this is an application that has nothing to do with biodegradability, or costs, but purely about the integrity of the seal, and the BNFL report mentions Stanelco specifically as the supplier of RF sealing equipment.
Still think that Starpol will be the headline act, but finding it all a bit blurry now as to what is marching onwards, what is generating cash, and what is considered a high hanging fruit. One would have thought the soup was less of a low hanging fruit and more of a windfall, just needing to be picked up!!
alan

I would think a simple email to HQ would sort that out Driver. Maybe i should offer to compile another set of questions? Its been a while since i last bothered Howard.

Good idea Bema - shame we didn't have all that ready to give him some reading on the red eye from Philly!!

I have loads of questions I would like answering but firstly, most of them may appear a little ignorant, or even stupid, and secondly, I think the answers may be a touch enigmatic and just make me want to ask even more questions.
Having said that, knowledge is power and if you do compile a list, let me know and I'll make a few offerings.
Alan

Well last time, on behalf of FYB he couldn't answer around half the questions but that is fair enough as far as i'm concerned.

Can i set up some kind of personal messanger with MAM as i don't want to clog the thread?

Morning all.

I agree with Alan re the next RNS. I'd be suprised if something comes out before the end of the 30 day agreement with ASDA-UK wise at any rate.

US is more of an unknown quantity. The traders are indeed having a field day! Very rocky for the PI who are sticking with it longterm. (Sigh)-its one of those days!!

morning all. alan, at the moment there is very little generating cash, which is why there will be another set of losses announced in the next results. all the broker notes predict this , so the market will not be surprised by it.

Hi all,

I can't get the MAM messenger working so please post questions for HQ to the board.

I shall write up the letter Sunday evening and post Monday AM. I won't be about Fri or Sat but i promise to read up and include all genuine contributions from here and FYB.

Bema
Just set up a new thread titled (Subject) Questions to seo, click on investors room, then create topic, put seo in the epic box so it stays on the seo page.

Thanks driver, will do.

Is it me or could there be a large buyer out there?

You mean the one that keeps snapping up the offer at 16.25? - yes - I think so

Now 1:5 @ 16 : 16.5 and 50k v 424k

That's the chap

The "questions for stanelco" thread is now up and running so post there if you need to. I won't mention it here again until any answers come back.

Biscuit - he must have heard us talking ??

Could be interesting.

Companies fund EU packaging and consumer study

By Ahmed ElAmin

20/10/2005 - In a bid that could help food processors pick the best marketable package for their products, European associations have launched a consumer study to find out their concerns.

Could I suggest, greenseal/starpol and frogpack.

http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?n=63351-packaging-waste-functional

Wal-Mart Switches to Corn-Based Plastic Packaging
By Harold Brubaker, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Oct. 20--Wal-Mart is going green.

The retail giant, which is also the nation's largest grocery seller, is beginning to switch from petroleum-based to corn-based plastic packaging.

The first substitution, starting Nov. 1, involves 114 million clear-plastic clamshell containers used annually by the retailer for cut fruit, herbs, strawberries and brussels sprouts, Wal-Mart executive Matt Kistler said yesterday at a conference in Philadelphia.

"With this change to packaging made from corn, we will save the equivalent of 800,000 gallons of gasoline and reduce more than 11 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions," said Kistler, vice president for product development and private brands for the company's Sam's Club division.

"This is a way to make a change positive for the environment and for business," he said at the Sustainable Packaging Forum at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel.

The adoption of environmentally friendly packaging at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which has an unparalleled ability to mandate change in the consumer products world, is a huge win for NatureWorks L.L.C., a Minnesota-based division of agricultural commodity giant Cargill Inc.

It comes as high oil and natural gas prices -- the sources for most plastics -- are ratcheting up the cost of plastic materials.

Kistler did not say whether the new plastic costs more or less than the materials it replaces, but he said Wal-Mart expects the price of corn-based plastics to be less volatile than those of petroleum-based plastics.

Snehal Desai, global commercial director for NatureWorks, said the company's plastic -- known as PLA, or polylactic acid -- is competitively priced with petroleum-based plastic, which is commonly used for soda and water bottles.

A big difference between PLA plastic and its petroleum-based competitors -- beyond its origin in an annually renewable resource -- is PLA's ability to be composted in carefully regulated municipal operations. It is also recyclable, like most other plastics.

Containers and packaging accounted for 32 percent of municipal solid wastes by weight in 2003, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Tara Stewart said the company, which will feature the packaging in its 3,779 Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and Neighborhood Market stores in the United States, is just beginning to figure out the lifecycle of the new plastics. "We don't have answers for everything yet," she said.

Kistler said the new plastic also will be used to make calling cards and gift cards sold at Wal-Mart for the holidays.

In addition, it will be used for the windows in cake and doughnut boxes, where it provides still another benefit: Because the corn-based plastic "breathes," condensation does not form inside the pastry boxes. Kistler said that during a test, doughnut sales increased.

Small retailers are also getting into the act. Fair Food, which operates a farm stand at Reading Terminal Market selling mostly organic products from local farms, recently switched to biodegradable cellophane bags made from a component of plants and trees.

At $95 for 1,000 bags, including shipping, that's about double the cost of the bags the nonprofit retailer used previously, said manager Ann Karlen.

But environmentally friendly packages are not always more expensive, said Margaret Papadakis, senior buyer of packaging for Starbucks Coffee Co.

The Seattle company will soon introduce new packaging for many of its chocolate candies that eliminates harmful bleached paperboard, uses half the material of the old design, and is expected to save $500,000 a year, she said.

The Philadelphia conference focused on "sustainability," a term that refers not just to a material's ability to be recycled, but also how valuable it remains when it is reused. In plastics, for instance, the goal is to avoid the downward spiral into less valuable products such as park benches.

"Just because a material or package is recyclable doesn't necessarily mean it is sustainable," said David Luttenberger, director of Packaging Strategies Inc., of West Chester, which produced the conference

http://www.rednova.com/news/science/277847/walmart_switches_to_cornbased_plastic_packaging/index.html?source=r_science

I know this is not Starpol - yet

Sold out again, will buy on any weakness.