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

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.

and there we go - the rampers are liars yet again - no big deal with Walmart for SEO announced this week - time to sell off again soon ?

ii,

No one lied. People speculated. There is a difference. Be accurate.

It'll come.....

I am not sure that I understand what is happening today.

There is no great volume, no great sell off, no great buying, no bloody RNS - everything seems to have stagnated - waiting to see what Wilma is going to do perhaps???

Baza

......and almost as though it was listening to me - it ticks up. Must try complaining more often !!

Baza

497696 shares bought - again - I am sure that I keep on seeing this number of shares or something similar being bought on a daily basis ?? - is that a key number - am I getting paranoid !!!!

Baza

Bugz,

Exactly, its in the wording. Well said.

No Baza,
You're not getting paranoid, but there are loads of people saying that you are, behind your back!
Alan

Tee Hee - time to give it a rest I think - your comment earlier on made me think - I am in this for the long term - yet I watch it on a daily (hourly even) basis.

Pause for thought !!

Baza

Me too Baza,
I look at this as a savings pot for my kids, and yet I am completely hooked on the best stockmarket soap opera in years. This really could become a West End knockout, except that an analogy of that kind is bound to invite our friend ii to start on about greek tragedies and whitehall farces.
Back to the pills though, Baza. If a comment I made, made you think then you really don't get out often enough.
Alan

addictive, innit!!

hi all
does this make sence .wm are going green .nw packageing is not green
still needs sp. tretment why not buy seo .you can put waste straight into
the bin .is this to easy or i;am wrong about this

Agree with you, on the surface it does look as easy and as simple as you say.

Champion Inversor starts again monday

And thats where I'm puzzled and troubled, greekman. Everything seems to be just right and yet there is no fanfare and no announcement of any definite link up, order or anything else. Every fibre of my soul tells me that these things take lots of time and patience, especially as we are dealing with capital equipment in Greenseal, but I am left with a nagging feeling that something, somewhere doesn't quite fit, and that is the reason why the reports are always just vague enough to keep us guessing.
I am a long term supporter of this stock and perhaps I have caught a dose of Bazas paranoia, or it is symptomatic of my impatience.
I will put my finger on what is troubling me, but like all the best detective novels it will be on the last page!!
Alan

Might have a bit of fun trading SEO: long, short, long, short long - in Champion Investor that is! Been learning the art from our traders. Is there a measure that compares stocks on cumulative % movement - SEO must rank highly.

Sorry sd didn't pick up on my allusion to double bottom. Didn't you see the Gillian Carnegie at the Tait in Tuesday's Times?

Eric

Just posted this on FYB, may clear some of the confusion up, unless I am totally wrong, but this is my take on the whole thing, whats everyone elses ?

Wendy and all, sorry to repost my post of yesterday, but reread the below Press Release. I agree that Biotec purchase from natureworks the Polylactide which is the largest component of Starpol 2000, no questions there what so ever. However re read the below, it tends to suggest that Natureworks are adopting the Starpol 2000 blend of material and will be marketing it as a Natureworks product. Does anyone else agree or disagree with my inturpertation of the below. If that is the case then it is not confusing whatsoever. (N.B. SEO are an IPR company, they own the IPR to Starpol (Biotec does not own the IPR to Starpol), Biotec is just a company that manufactures Starpol (forget that SEO own 50% of Biotec), SEO could have done a deal with any manufacturer in the world to manufacture Starpol under license, they just went one better and bought a manufacturing plant to manufacture Starpol. SEO can still license the manufacture of Starpol to any company in the world as SEO own the IPR to Starpol, including cargill / natureworks who are a manufacturer)



From the Orlando Business Wire release a little while ago:

Snehal Desai, NatureWorks LLC commercial vice president said, "We are delighted with the diversity, functionality and competitiveness of the Starpol 2000 range of products and believe the marketplace will welcome this broad extension of offerings of NatureWorks PLA based materials."

Therefore I think that Natureworks supply some ingredients to Biotec who then produce the Starpol. I think Natureworks are going to possibly be using some of the Starpol 2000 in their own range of products (above snippet of the news wire tends to suggest same", which is what I think the News if any will be tomorrow. Secondly Starpol is the only PLA based material that can be used in MAP packing and requires "Greenseal" to seal it. I think once the US Government has approved it for use, then Walmart / Natureworks will release a further press statement titled along the lines "packaging development etc etc"

Biodiesel Biobased News

Stanelco Signs Supply Agreement with NatureWorks(R) LLC; NatureWorks PLA Largest Component of Stanelco's Starpol 2000 Biodegradable, Compostable Plastic Materials
ORLANDO, Fla., Sep 23, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Stanelco, the UK-based radio frequency (RF) applications group, has entered into a supply agreement with NatureWorks LLC, Minnetonka, MN, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill Inc. The agreement covers the supply of NatureWorks PLA, (Polylactide, a starch derivative), which is the largest component of Stanelco's recently announced Starpol 2000(TM) range of biodegradable, compostable plastic materials.

This relationship will materially assist commercialization of Starpol 2000 into Stanelco's target application segments. It is planned that a minimum of 15,000 tons of Starpol 2000 will be produced and sold within the next 12 months.
Starpol 2000 is available in a range of blends that can be formed into sheet material for products such as short shelf-life food trays, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) trays and blown films for a diverse range of products including carrier bags, compost bags, waste bags and agricultural films.

"This is a landmark agreement that further demonstrates the materials created by Biotec are both ground breaking and commercial. We have been actively carrying out pre-production runs of the material with a number of major corporations in both Europe and North America. Starpol 2000 has demonstrated a functionality far beyond any other current biodegradable alternative and at an overall cost that is competitive with the existing plastics used in our target market, namely food packaging," said Howard White, president of Stanelco Inc. and Stanelco PLC group managing director.

"Just as importantly, the material is also easily sealable with our GREENSEAL(TM) technology project which continues to progress well and will enable us to offer a complete biodegradable, environmentally responsible packaging solution at a competitive cost," said White.

Snehal Desai, NatureWorks LLC commercial vice president said, "We are delighted with the diversity, functionality and competitiveness of the Starpol 2000 range of products and believe the marketplace will welcome this broad extension of offerings of NatureWorks PLA based materials."

About Stanelco PLC

The Stanelco Group of companies (the Group) has brought together expertise in radio frequency (RF) technology, RF applications and biodegradable material sciences to create a revolutionary range of packaging technologies.

Stanelco's philosophy is that new products and processes must offer solutions and applications which:

-- give higher added value,

-- are greener, more environmentally sustainable than those they replace,

-- and have protectable intellectual property rights.

Stanelco was founded in 1953 and is a world leader in the development of radio frequency technologies for processing polymers for edible and packaging applications and the design and man



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