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

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anyway 2p by xmas.
:-)

...............I'll get my coat.

Tweenie, your let off is that you didn't specify which xmas!

Remember reading here about 2 years ago "1 by Christmas", how things change, be quite pleased to see 2p now - lol

Dave

Were those imaginary friends of Alan's imaginary or did i imagine it ?

Greenseal !
I would like to know exactly what the problem is.
If its to slow for food packing, it could still be used for other things, all may not be lost yet.

Give it up Jim.

The question should be precisely what are the patents being challenged?.....Starpol, Wrap...?

i see your glass is 3/4 empty, mine is 1/4 full nearly!

Kimoldfield/Greekman

I can't remember which of you said you were thinking of complaining about matters to the FSA.
Although I agree with others this is unlikely to result in anything more than another pile of correspondance, if you are actually embarking on this please Email me tonyrelaxes@hotmail.com

From Monday night I am away and generally out of touch for many weeks. Oh how I would like a NICE surprise when I get back to civilisation.

Tony, before you go, do you still believe (hope!) there is a future with SEO. Do you have any insight you could share that might help lift all the gloom?

Thanks and wishing you a great trip!

Gosh - thats testing my brain !!
I have no great insight or knowledge other than what is out there for all to find out.

2 or 3 years ago SEO had the ideas/products but were basically a bunch of boffins not business people.

They bought Biotec for twice Sphere's bid. The purchase appeared brilliant except they probably couldn't afford it alone and certainly they felt they needed Sphere on board with it to retain them as BioTecs biggest customer and sold them half. That deal is now beginning to look flawed. Did our boffins get outwitted by the French as well as events?

New management came, again more technical than commercial, but significantly moved the internal structuring and financing forward. But they could well have suffered from a behind the scenes vengance campaign from the displaced old management.

We now have a proven businessman in charge, appointed and backed by Institutions. Hopefully unhindered and untainted by the past politics.

He has been coming to terms with what he inherited. Clearly saying some hitherto unpalatable things and shelving a sacred cow or two.

It would be nice to say I think they will succeed, but is that my hope rather than a fair assessment?

Assuming they do start to realise the potential my only fear is being taken out at a price that would not truely reflect that potential. It would look very good on PMs CV and the Institutional Investors to have come, seen, turned it and sold it at (say) 4 times what it was in a short period. But that still won't look too rosy in my portfolio.

Although in or near cities at times during the next two weeks as I ride east, after that for the large part of where I am going on a motorbike there is hardly any electricity, certainly no Internet, or any telephone coverage for miles and miles, in fact days. Therefore worrying about SEO is pointless.
I will just relax.....

I will make my decision on this next week after my intelligence is up-dated.

However, to be honest the price is so low now, I might as well see this one to the bitter end.

Where do you go to get your intelligence updated?

I want shares in that technology.
:-)

Thanks for your candid viewpoint Tony,have a great trip.pinnacles I trust You may share any updated "intelligence" and regarding your last sentence I, and I no doubt, many others will be in the very same boat and I hope its not the Titanic.Cheers.

Who would buy 3m sorry who has bought 3m.

sellsell
Read the research page from top to bottom there must be some thing in there with some value.

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

up a bit today and don't forget they still have starpol or wrap 2000 whatever--I remember them dropping a wrapped champagne bottle out of a helicopter etc. some people are still buying!

wonder if this is to do with Biotec,
or why they are not building plants in the USA.
METABOLIX, INC.
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With ADM we have initiated product and business development activities including pilot production of material at an 8 ton per month scale facility, working with potential customers, and initiation of qualification trials of our material for selected customer applications. We expect that our products will initially be sold to companies that are: establishing themselves as leaders of the emerging market trend toward environmentally responsible products and services;
Intellectual Property
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We own over 320 issued patents and 100 patent applications world wide, and we have licensed from third parties approximately 60 issued patents and over 30 patent applications world wide. All but 5 of these issued patents, and their foreign counterparts, relate to the technology in our current business plan. These patents cover, among other things, the fundamental biotechnology needed to produce PHA Natural Plastics as well as compositions, processes and derived products. Of the licensed patents and patent applications, many are owned by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and exclusively licensed to us. Under the MIT licensing agreement, we currently pay annual license fees. During the fiscl year ended December 31, 2005, these fees totaled approximately $25,000. In addition, under this licensing agreement, we are obligated to pay royalties of future sales of products, if any, covered by the licensed patents.Our patents are directed to compositions of polymers, genes, vectors, expression systems in plants and bacteria, devices, coatings, films, as well as methods of manufacture and use. The terms of such patents are set to expire at various times between 2009 and 2022.
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jimward9
Don't start all the roomers again we have had enough of that over the last two years until SEO come up with a decent RNS we don't know what they are up to. As I have said before on this thread WHAT do the workers and managers do when they arrive to work each day sweet F all. .

IF this is the crux, then Given that the patent only lasts till 2010 , i think they've already lost the fight.

Up 22.9% today - you dont often see a share do that!

If I'd bought 300,000 worth yesterday I'd almost have got back what I've lost.

Damn it! Missed my chance.