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[begorrah88] 24/6/2015 17:19

....how would Minesy have known they rang? they must have left a message as we know BIOM don't answer the phone in case it might be business.

[sirmark] 24/6/2015 16:23

Paul said to me a while back that Lego had been in touch.... although that could have meant they rang the company to ask to be taken of there mailing lists :((

[jmf69] 24/6/2015 15:46

This time next year we'll be miwwionaires

[boldtrader] 24/6/2015 15:45

Good find Mark, but, don't see BIOME mentioned, Never mind maybe next year rodders!!

[sirmark] 24/6/2015 13:27

Bioplastics in 2014: the 'green' year that was




By Karen Laird
Published: December 22nd, 2014




All considering, 2014 was not at all a bad year - at least in terms of bioplastics innovations and applications, that is.

As designers, processors and manufacturers cautiously adapt to the idea of green plastics, the use of renewably sourced materials is being introduced in more and more application areas. Looking back at some of the developments we covered over the past months, it was clear that, while packaging remains a key area for bioplastics, new applications are turning up at an increasingly rapid pace, ranging from the automotive industry - both under the hood and in the interior - to coffee capsules, air fans and even corks.

The latter story [Corked wine a thing of the past with a 'green' Corc] particularly generated a lot of interest this spring, when we wrote about this wholly new application for Braskem's green polyethylene developed by a company called Normacorc. In the 15 years since Normacorc was founded, its synthetic corks, initially developed in order to solve the problem of "corked" wine, have become the world's leading brand of synthetic wine closures. This year, motivated by a desire to develop a more sustainable packaging solution, the company introduced its first green Corc made of Braskem's I'm Green PE, which it called the Select Bio plant-based wine bottle closure. "The use of Braskem's green polyethylene made from sugarcane gave us the materials we needed to offer our customers carbon-neutral corks," said Olav Aagaard, principal scientist at Nomacorc. Braskem's green plastic is made from sugarcane ethanol, a 100% renewable raw material, and captures 2.15 kilograms of CO2 for every kilogram produced. It's a drop-in replacement in the plastic production chain - not biodegradable, but recyclable in the same recycling chain as used by traditional polyethylene.

Lego [Lego investigates shift to bioplastics] certainly caught our attention this year with its mention that it was looking at the possibility of using PLA for its iconic plastic blocks, as part of a long-term sustainability program. A volume application if ever there was one: as the world's premier construction toy brand, Lego annually consumes 60,000 metric tons of plastic, mostly ABS, at giant captive molding plants in Denmark, Mexico, Hungary and, as from 2017, China. "I know it will happen; it is just a matter of time," Alan Rasmussen, a materials engineer at Lego said at a presentation at the Innovation Takes Root conference early in 2014. However, although they look deceptively simple, Lego blocks are actually a very clever feat of plastics engineering. More research is required to solve the various issues seen with the blocks made of PLA and the various other bioplastic materials being tested.

Back when Bayer MaterialScience starting experimenting with ways to turn CO2 into useful plastics, the response from much of the industry was a polite guffaw. No more. With the first polyurethane matrass based on CO2 planned to sell in 2016, Bayer's 'dream' is starting to become real. And in 2014, we reported on the progress the company had made with this Dream Polymers project [Bayer MaterialScience dreams of expanding range of CO2-based plastics]: researchers at Bayer developed a new technology which involved incorporating CO2 at the precursor level, replacing 20% of the petroleum needed. Earlier technology had already yielded a 20% reduction in the amount of petroleum used. "We have now succeeded in reducing the petroleum content to just 60%," said Project Manager Christoph Gürtler. What's more, according to the company, the technology is suitable for the production of other plastics, as well.

And finally, perhaps the best news about bioplastics this year was the fact that, well, they're no longer real news. "At Interpack this year, one of the statements heard again and again was 'we are already working with bioplastics','" said Hasso von Pogrell, managing director of the European Bioplastics association. As bioplastics go mainstream, their use - in packaging applications [Bioplastics in packaging come into its own] at least - is apparently increasingly becoming a taken-for-granted reality.

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[robward] 20/6/2015 13:13

Lol apparently he's a charting expert....Google him.....assuming you've heard of Google ?

[robward] 20/6/2015 12:38

Zak mir calling these up to £2.40 so you may well recover a few more pennies

[marmar80] 19/6/2015 16:35

still 400 or 500% hole to my breakeven

[mudbath] 19/6/2015 16:35

NICE !!
It almost makes me want to become a "long termer" !!

[begorrah88] 19/6/2015 10:36

That is a very welcome RNS with some positive ongoing comments.

For supply during 2015 is nice.

[joeblogg2] 19/6/2015 09:05

:)) Nice steady income from RF and all we need now is the bio division to start adding to sales here!!!

[jmf69] 19/6/2015 09:05

No stock available. Sp rising

[tomboyb] 19/6/2015 09:03

TIDMBIOM

RNS Number : 6689Q

Biome Technologies PLC

19 June 2015

19 June 2015

Biome Technologies plc

("Biome", "the Company")

Contract awarded to RF Division

Biome is pleased to announce that its Stanelco RF Technologies division has signed a GBP1.1m contract with a customer in Asia for the manufacture of a set of fibre optic furnaces for supply during 2015.

It was noted in the Group's trading update on 27 April 2015 that there were encouraging signs that the supply demand balance in the Asian fibre optic market was changing and that the division was quoting on a number of systems with potential customers who were considering new capacity.

This order is indicative of the improvement in market conditions and gives significant underpinning to the Board's expected outcome for this division in 2015.

-Ends-

For further information please contact:


Biome Technologies plc
Paul Mines, Chief Executive Officer
www.biometechnologiesplc.com Tel: [phone]

Allenby Capital
David Hart/Alex Brearley (Nominated
Adviser)
Chris Crawford/Kelly Gardiner
(Broker)
www.allenbycapital.com Tel: [phone]

FTI Consulting
Oliver Winters Tel: [phone]
www.fticonsulting.com

[lwaxf13] 08/6/2015 18:35

I rarely look in here any more as the share price has been destroyed. Go back to when Mr Mines joined and adjusted for share consolidation the share price was around £22. Today the share price is £1.45. That's ~94% loss in share price. You have be special to achieve ~94% :-) Excellent work if you can get it and get paid for it too!!!

[begorrah88] 08/6/2015 06:42

It would be more honest if that article had mentioned the failure by PM at Biom and the fact that his comments could be a copy and paste of what he has been saying for 7 years.

We all know about the potential - it is the inability to realise any of that potential that has cost everyone [BoD excepted as their income carries on regardless] so dear.

[boldtrader] 04/6/2015 17:06

Thanks mark, just received in my mailbox, interesting and as beg says encouraging..... but still need around £11 a share to break even!! Good call mudbath. cheers to all.

[glyn10] 04/6/2015 16:44

I was thinking more of a tenner to the share price to be honest

[mudbath] 04/6/2015 14:42

Just a further 50 pence onto the share price over the next few days and that will do me fine .
Hope it doesn't happen(for long termers) but another opportunity to buy at 75 pence should not be spurned.imo.

[sirmark] 04/6/2015 14:08

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Intelligent plastics, naturally





Biome Bioplastics leads £3m sustainable chemicals development programme

Sustainable chemicals development

Biome Bioplastics has begun a major development programme to progress successful bio-based chemicals research through to industrial scale production. The project has the potential to significantly accelerate the global bioplastics market with the production of novel target materials, including a fully bio-based polyester.

The extensive £3m, three-year work programme led by Biome Bioplastics has received significant support from Innovate UK, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), among others. The scale-up work will involve several parallel projects undertaken in partnership with specialist units at the Universities of Warwick, Liverpool and Leeds as well as the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) on Teesside.

The consortium’s aim is to harness industrial biotechnology techniques to produce bio-based chemicals from lignin at a scale suitable for industrial testing. Lignin is an abundant waste product of the pulp and paper industry. The availability of these chemicals could revolutionise the bioplastics market. For the first time, it would allow natural polymers to truly compete with oil-based polymers on both cost and functionality. The work could also contribute to a sustainable UK chemicals industry, with broader commercial applications including fragrances, coatings and personal care products.

Biome Bioplastics CEO, Paul Mines, comments:

"The ready availability of high value, sustainable chemicals from natural sources will be a game changer for the bioplastics market. Success in this work would allow us to competitively challenge the dominance of oil-based polymers. The technology we are developing is part of the growing adoption of bio-based processes that is likely to deliver radical changes across the materials industry."

[boldtrader] 04/6/2015 14:02

Bloody hell!! something up??

[begorrah88] 04/6/2015 10:31

It is certainly more encouraging than it has been.

Good to see.

[temmujin] 04/6/2015 09:48

just added