Has anyone any ideas as to why this stock has powered head today. I noticed that it moved slightly up just before close yesterday.

About time that it moves. I guess most people are out of this dog......

another contract........keep it coming sym!

Why the drop in SP nonetheless? End of tax year profit-taking or something else?
SD

perhaps to do with another spike up today with oil prices....mind you everything in my portfolio showing red apart from mdw.

Really,everyone should invest in Symphony Plastics.They are doing wonders with the recent contracts with Saudi Arabia and Quatar , signed within such a short time of each other....and the sp drops.Typical of today's horrible market.
Buy these shares.Think of our environment.

Here, here!

Hunter Hall is a leading international ethical fund manager, based in Australia,
with $AUD 2.8 billion under management. The Hunter Hall Global Deep Green Trust
implements its positive ethical investment policy by investing only in companies
which make a positive impact on environmental, humanitarian, social, and
sustainability issues. In addition, it excludes investment in countries which
support commercial whaling and donates one third of management fees to charity,
including projects which support biodiversity.

Hunter Hall's Executive Chairman, Peter MacDonald Hall, said today: "We are
investing in Symphony because we want to see its cost-effective degradable
plastic technology used to reduce the appalling problem of plastic waste which
floats on the oceans and pollutes the rivers, fields and streets of the world.
We also support the work it is doing in the field of waste-to-energy.

Our generation of humanity has the responsibility to take up the struggle to
understand the issues and to use our rationality to change human behaviour to
re-create a sustainable and balanced world."

"Our generation of humanity has the responsibility to take up the struggle to
understand the issues and to use our rationality to change human behaviour to
re-create a sustainable and balanced world."

You can't argue with that.

Balanced world ? god help us. But then its his problem ? or is he out to get us. KILL HUMANITY AND SAVE THE EARTH.

Not sure where you're coming from here BAYLIS or why you've started a thread based on that statement but I would have thought that sustainability and giving back to the planet what we take is pretty self-explanatory.

anyone here got an inclination of why the s.p. is reversing...having stated progress was being made within the company...

watcher

SEE POST 65. HAPPY NEW YEAR

China has launched a surprise crackdown on plastic bags today by banning supermarkets and shops from handing out free carriers from June 1st.

China uses up to 3 billion plastic bags a day, the most in the world. But people fail to dispose of them properly, wasting valuable oil and littering the country, China's cabinet announced on the central government website.

"While providing convenience to consumers, they have also caused serious pollution, and waste of energy and resources, because of excessive use and inadequate recycling," the State Council said.

Late last year the town of Shenzhen unveiled draft regulations to ban free plastic bags in its shops.

Shopkeepers fretted that customers might be turned away and others accused the government of making residents shoulder the costs of environmental protection.

Part of the new rules seem similar to the Shenzhen plan, stating that from June shops, supermarkets and sales outlets would be forbidden to offer free plastic bags and all carriers must be clearly marked with their prices.

"We should encourage people to return to carrying cloth bags, using baskets for their vegetables," the notice said.

In addition the manufacture, sale and use of bags under 0.025 mm thick is banned from the same date, with fines and confiscation of goods and profits for firms that flout the rules.

Rubbish collectors were urged to separate plastic for reprocessing and cut the amount burnt or buried.

The move brings China in line with a growing international trend to cut back use of plastic bags. From Ireland to Uganda and South Africa governments have experimented with heavy taxes, outright bans or eliminating the thinnest bags.

Degradable plastic which 'self destructs' after as little as six months in any environment - land or water - which also emits no methane, even when buried. Is it too good to be true?

Following recent comments about tackling the growing problems of plastic waste, Symphony Environmental wants to point out that there is already a form of plastic which could solve many of the problems people find so worrying.

It is called oxo-biodegradable (oxo-bio) plastic is the answer. It makes plastic bags degrade completely and to a pre-set timespan, from six months onwards.

It also emits no methane even when buried in a landfill. As oxo-bio bags 'self destruct' automatically at the end of their lifespan, they disappear altogether even if they are not collected, either on land or in water, leaving no harmful residues.

However, if collected, they can be recycled. They can also be incinerated for energy recovery. Oxo-bio plastic is not made from crops or potential food stuffs, like some of the biodegradable plastic alternatives, and thus is no threat to the world's food chain.

The technology used to make oxo-bio bags is still comparatively new and many people are not yet fully aware of its capabilities. All too often it is confused with the starch-based (hydro-bio) alternative, which does emit methane, cannot be recycled and cannot be programmed to destruct to a pre-set lifespan.

Symphony Environmental has developed an oxo-bio additive, which when added to most forms of plastic at the manufacturing stage, changes its behaviour and gives it ithe properties of oxo-bio plastic.

Organisations using it in at least one application include Tesco, the Co-op, Walmart, the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the World Wildlife Fund and the Soil Association.

The use of oxo-bio plastic bags could dramatically cut the amount of long-term plastic waste left lying around in the streets, or polluting the countryside, our rivers and the sea - perhaps even obviating the need for a ban on them, or for other restrictions.

Symphony Environmental

So when's the market and the World in general going to wake up to this and re-rate the SP accordingly??

UK smallcap Symphony Environmental Technologies PLC said it is 'wrong' to ban plastic bags altogether, citing they are so light, strong, durable and convenient, adding plastic bags and products with a useful life of 5 years or less should be made oxo-biodegradable instead.

Symphony has over the past seven years made very large investments to create and develop an additive which, when added to normal polymers at the manufacturing stage, renders them oxo-biodegradable.

Oxo-biodegradable plastic bags pass the tests prescribed by American Standard 6954 and they degrade to carbon dioxide, water and biomass within a few months on land or in water leaving no fragments or harmful residues, the company said.

3 MARCH 2008

perhaps we will see a good climb back if and it is an if the company can make progress under the cloak of biodegradable agreements with big companies...anyone who has held these knows the potential...

watcher

Looks like they have jumped on the SEO band wagon the sp is up but no volume.

It doesn't need to be a bandwagon driver as SYM has the technology and the products!

queen1
I didn't mean about their technology but the way their RNS's read. SEO's RNS "Stanelco Welcomes Media Debate" and SYM RNS THE PLASTIC BAG DEBATE both not price sensitive but both have sent the sp up.