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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Stock Type |
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| 3DM Worldwide | TDM | London | Ordinary Share |
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| 0.00 | 0.00% | 5.19 | 01:00:00 |
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Posted at 27/8/2007 01:08 by buggy UPDATE LINKS AT HEADER. Can someone update the links at the top of the page to bring it in line with current situations. I was using the linkg to research TDM but found some of thr information missleading or confuing at best. for example: I read somewhere else that TDM no longer has any interest in Longborough Capital yet the link above seems to suggest a 17.2% ownership. |
Posted at 23/8/2007 08:49 by giltspur I'm very suspicious of Adie's past motives.He was a big supporter of TDM until the tide turned and he became very anti - fine. His posts were well written and *mostly* factually balanced but while in promo mode he headed this thread with an avalanche of support material from Walters' tip site. People pay money to the read tip site yet were provided verse and chapter on this BB on a regular basis, for FREE? Adie removed Walters' verbiage at an opportune time in the proceedings. Was Adie compliant following a request? It seems to me that Walters was an important catalyst in this story rise to fame and if Adie's past protestations are to be believed he should have left the stuff up for people to judge themselves so WHY did he take them down? Adie is under the spotlight. |
Posted at 17/8/2007 10:37 by tom howard goatherd - 3 May'05 - 12:09 - 11185 of 18242This is a report on my visit to the TDM facility in Wales on Wednesday. I signed a confidentiality agreement, and so am picking my words with care. If I get it wrong I hope some of you will visit me in prison! The visit was really technically orientated very little financial content although it was clear that all ten shareholders there thought that the prelims did not do the company justice. Some people say TDM is paranoid. As far as the technical and IP side is concerned this is with good reason. Let me give you an analogy. Suppose you invent a wonderful new way of cooking eggs "frying" this you patent. So then you start developing the idea. One day you are experimenting with adding fried bacon to the fried eggs. A visitor to your kitchen sees this, and decides to patent it for his own benefit. At the very best this will be an expensive time waster, at worst you may have to pay license fees in order to be able to sell fried bacon with fried eggs license fees for what was in fact your idea. This is, of course, similar to what happened between BPRG and SEO. TDM have excellent patent protection on the basic PIM process, but as they develop the process they make new innovative and patentable discoveries. It is extremely important to them [and us] that no one else patents these discoveries and thus hold TDM to ransom. This probably explains the limited number of shareholders that have been shown round. The company [or its brokers] need to be aware of the identity of people being shown round so that they can be sure the confidentiality agreements will be honoured. Many execution only internet broker clients are, of course, barely known to anyone. The building is well suited to house the alpha and beta, though I do not think it would house two alphas. The power supply is at present inadequate and is being augmented by a large generator. This appears to be down to the local power supplier whose responses are very slow. I thought that was purely a characteristic of Eastern Electricity but apparently not! The power requirement is very substantial, even though the ovens are gas fired. The loos were the cleanest I have ever seen in any factory always a sign of good management! Only filthy skylights [external] revealed that it is a refurbished building. The alpha dwarfs the beta in all respects. It is an immensely impressive piece of kit. Personally I would not like the task of selling a beta to anyone who has seen the alpha. Constructional standards are all one could wish for; the instrumentation is superb. The 400' long plant is operated by just three staff working at the end remote from the robots and they do not need to walk along the machine at all everything can be seen on cctv systems. The plant is designed for 24/7 operation with maintenance operations such as lubrication being fully automatic. It clearly has a minimum ten year life though I suspect will be run for longer. Unfortunately we did not see it running, but saw a robot filling moulds. The machine operating specification has been made very flexible for example temperatures can be much higher than would be required for basic ingredients, so that engineering grade plastics can be accommodated if necessary. This, of course, accounts for what some people are describing as a "cost overrun". The original customer for this machine was contracted to allow TDM 50% of the operating time for the first six months. However there were several problems with the site chosen by the licensee. The site was not in good condition, and was unsuitable in some respects, like the available power supply. Also the licensee was reluctant to allow extended testing on other prospective licensee's problems. [and security would have been an issue in some cases] This changed the game plan; and demand for prototyping and toll manufacturing was such that TDM wanted more than 50% of the capacity anyway. Therefore the plant now belongs to TDM, and has been financed. However in due course there is a licensee who will buy the existing alpha, even in its higher spec development state, for the full cost. This nicely illustrates that TDM is right at the start of a very high potential operation. Plans are bound to change as circumstances change and licensees can also change their objectives and can be much more dilatory than we would like. Some are not; they are impatient, but hopefully realise the importance of careful testing and commissioning. I find the way in which this technology and machine have been designed, developed and built in such a short time to be an enormous credit to the management responsible. OK. So I believe the technology is wonderful; but will it sell? Last year I made cost and profitability estimates [for fence panels inherently low value] which indicated a pay-back period to the licensee of under 12 months. My visit enabled me to verify some of my assumptions, and the figures are, if anything, better. When I plug some higher value products in, the pay-back is only a very few months. Once this becomes known to industry the demand, from anyone who has suitable markets, will look after itself. A pay-back of less than six months will excite any manufacturer. The ability to use waste materials is important in getting these very good pay-backs. However the system does not depend on them, it is should still be very profitable using virgin plastics; which may have to be used in some countries for consumer acceptability reasons. However the PIM process will make, as it is taken up, major inroads to the ever increasing waste disposal problem. I am sure that TDM will prosper mightily, and its shareholders with it. This is, however, from the viewpoint of a long term investor. What will happen in the trader's timescales is a mystery to me. Richard Dawson |
Posted at 15/8/2007 14:00 by bluebelle I think the point DB was making is that shareholders know the firm, and its connection with TDM, only too well and that whatever the outcome KB will profit not just if he wins (if indeed there is a case), but if he loses as, in that event, 'the firm' will no doubt find that their bills are settled in full, ultimately, by TDM shareholders. |
Posted at 25/7/2007 17:00 by bluebelle grahambrGreat web site. I particularly liked this from the FAQ section. So loads of 3dimmers have been ringing up having lost their dividend cheques and asking to have them paid directly into their bank accounts. You couldn't make it up !!! Is it possible to have a lost or invalid dividend cheque replaced? Yes. Please contact Capita IRG plc. See address below. 4. Can I have my dividends paid directly into my bank or building society account? Yes, if you hold ordinary shares and live in the UK or certain other countries covered by the transcontinental automated payment service. Please contact Capita IRG plc for further information. See address below. |
Posted at 09/7/2007 09:15 by melony I sometimes wonder if there is any other AIM listed company that has been so badly run as Tdm, in terms of shareholder value. Tdm seems to have given up all hope of survival, and it's simply waiting for its executioners to carry out their judgments. I wait with keen interest to see if another British innovative company would be sent to the gallows for perceived self inflicted injuries. The company is being sold for peanuts. Shareholders are being diluted to minority stakeholders with endless issue of shares and the company is run in the interest of creditors and market makers. The share price should end the in the negative, for a contract win. The company is being punished for making survival attempts, a sign of very weak management, unable to make a firm stand. Shame! |
Posted at 07/7/2007 12:22 by chancer6 In the city and finance section today TDM Worldwide is highlighted to be one of the main changes in price on Friday's session. There were much bigger gainers on the day which aren't highlighted but TDM is. Bit of coverage like that is always nice! |
Posted at 04/7/2007 12:57 by bluebelle KnightIn that sense you're right, but I do think with the 'clubby' atmosphere he creates partly based on his (once justified) reputation, and, especially in the case of the likes of TDM, his access to certain Directors, encourages a lot of his subscribers to take his recommendations as gospel (their fault, I quite agree, rather than his) and follow him into positions (from which, on one occasion as I recall, he withdrew without at first telling subscribers) which, in the case of small caps, they can't easily get out of. You've only got to read some of the comments on his BB if you have the temerity to query or criticise him to see that. In the case of TDM, after the initial, ahem, correction, I reckon that MW subscribers accounted for around 80% of the shares held by PIs, and if he'd recommended a sell - which on the basis of the sound advice he'd been peddling in the Mail for many a year he should have been doing - the price would have tanked not least because the MMs would have dropped it like a stone. By the way, in relation to your last point, did you see that the creator of the Hokey Cokey, Larry Laprise, dies a while ago, but the undertakers had terrible trouble when it came to getting him in the coffin? They put his right leg in.................. |
Posted at 09/6/2007 22:47 by scrutable Giltspur - 9 May'07 - 16:47 - 22461 of 22663Ted Then what do you say to those unfortunate people who bought at 150p on the advice of you, Wendy and a clutch of tipsters? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I see you are still in business as a serial libeller, determined to maintain your reputation as a nasty piece of work. Whatever you may say of Wendy with whom I have no connection, you can find no evidence of my ever 'tipping' this share. You will find a research report written when the price was 50p full of facts with no recommendations. Even then that's a long way from 150p. Those facts still pertain. Many industrial processes take 10 years to develop to the stage of profitability. TDM has four years behind it - par for the course. Ford is using it in successful trials; and the Bovis trials are a great success. As for the value of what I write : what of the multibagging lemming subscribers have made from ReneSola (+250%) shifting their profits later to TMC (x100%) Successful two stage six bagging pays for much more than a 90% loser such as TMC reported on at 50p but temporarily down to 6p. We shall see TDM back again at 50p when the waste disposal industry wakes up fully as it has begun to do already. Then you will move on as you have done from SOLA and TDM to seek other boards for your dirty strategy of lies and libels to frighten the timid and drive the price down after short selling. Your behaviour is despicable. |
Posted at 21/2/2007 09:05 by mark3tmaker To my mind the biggest question mark on TDM is how to value it?With companies that pay a dividend and have a record to benchmark furture earnings based on expectations it is relatively straight forward. With new companies that are making a loss because they are investing in the future with through R&D or build out of infrastructure/servi However, TDM is probably in a unique position since it fits neither model. Sure they are investing for the future but they have more than one target market and there is no other company that can provide what TDM can. Their product is a plastic that has 3 major properties 1) Made of recyclable material 2) Cheap to produce 3) Is lighter but as strong as Steel But there are target multiple target markets, from memory they include but not limited to: Truck flatbeds (eg Dodge Dakota - production to start 4Q2003), modular housing (Silkwood - Mexico and possibly Texas), vehicle wheels (incorporating Transense Technologies plc's tyre pressure sensors), vehicle chassis or cab assemblies, car boot floors, scaffold boards (close to revenue earning), plastic mouldings to shape concrete ceilings, light weight insulated flooring systems, Fence panelling (production to commence this year), kerbstones, pipes, refrigerators, freezers, marine hulls (both consumer and military), pallets, crates, aircraft freight/baggage containers, etc, etc ... It's very difficult to value this company since, through its licence holders, it is in multiple markets. The only financial information is on the Silkwood housing in Mexico: "assuming satisfactory completion of the development project, Silkwood has to pay royalties on the delivery of the product, subject to a minimum of $US15m over five years" So thats about £1.5M per annum. => remember thats a minimum guarantee. Lets play with this number. Assume Silkwood take this to Texas and prove the system there and then extend this to all 50 odd states and then extend this to the rest of the world. Lets play with this number. Assume Silkwood take this to Texas and prove the system there and then extend this to all 50 odd states and then extend this to the rest of the world. Assume ROW is the same market size as America. So US = £1.5*50 = £75M. So ROW+US = £150M This would be largely profit since TDM will not manufacture but licence the technology. [OK, Mexico may not be same size as Texas and each US state is not same size, but ROW is probably bigger than US and this is a *minimum* guarantee] But does this not imply a M.Cap of £1.5B - for just *one* market! Ramp: Forget 10 baggers, we're talking 100 bagger ! Opinions and alternative calculation welcome. |
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