Lord Callanan Joins Symphony

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Symphony Environmental Tech. PLC

02 December 2014

 



Press Release	2nd  December 2014

SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PLC

("Symphony" "Group" or the "Company")

LORD CALLANAN JOINS SYMPHONY

Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc (AIM: SYM), global specialists in "making plastic smarter", are pleased to announce that Lord Callanan of Low Fell has joined the Symphony team as a consultant.

He is the former Martin Callanan MEP, who was leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, the third largest group in the European Parliament, until July 2014, and was a leading Member of the Environment Committee of the Parliament.  On 8^th August 2014 it was announced that he was to become a member of the House of Lords in the UK on the recommendation of Prime Minister David Cameron.

Symphony's CEO Michael Laurier said "Symphony's Board is delighted that Lord Callanan has joined us, and we all look forward to working with him.  Symphony is a specialist in environmental technologies, working in more than 90 countries worldwide, and his international experience, and service on the Environment Committee of the European Parliament will be of great benefit to the Company."

Lord Callanan said "I was pleased to be asked to join the Symphony Environmental Technologies Group.  I look forward to working with them to bring the benefits of their technologies to Europe and the wider world, and to raise awareness in the UK of the contribution which this British company is making to the UK economy and to public health and environmental protection worldwide.  In particular, their oxo-biodegradable plastic technology needs to be better understood in Europe.  It does not just cause the plastic to fragment, but converts it at the end of its service-life into biodegradable materials."

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Contacts

Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc
Michael Laurier, CEO	Tel: [phone]
Ian Bristow, FD
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe
Mark Percy (Corporate Finance)	Tel: [phone]
David Banks / Paul Jewell (Corporate Broking)

About Symphony Environmental Technologies plc

Symphony is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (SYM:LN) and has an ADR facility in New York (SEPT-Y). The Group has a diverse and growing customer-base and has established itself as an international business with 74 distributors around the world. Products made with Symphony's plastic technologies are now available in 97countries and in many different product applications. Symphony is certified to ISO9001 and ISO14001.

Symphony's oxo-biodegradable technology is branded d2w and appears as a droplet logo on many thousands of tonnes of plastic packaging and other plastic products around the world. In some countries oxo-biodegradable plastic is mandatory.  For a video of d2w® plastic degrading see http://degradable.net/play-videos/4.

Symphony also offers a range of d2p® anti-microbial plastic technologies which add protection against bacteria and fungi to a wide range of plastic products www.symphonyenvironmental.com/d2p/ 

In addition Symphony has developed the d2Detector®, a portable device which analyses plastics and detects counterfeit products.  Symphony's d2t tagging and tracer technology is also available for further security. See www.d2t.net

Symphony Recycling Technologies ("SRT") is developing innovative and cost-effective recycling systems to convert scrap tyres and other waste-streams into valuable products (http://symphonyrecycling.net)

Symphony is a member of The Oxo-biodegradable Plastics Association (www.biodeg.org), the Society for the Chemical Industry (UK), and the Pacific Basin Environmental Council. Symphony actively participates in the Committee work of the British Standards Institute (BSI), the American Standards Organisation (ASTM), the European Standards Organisation (CEN), and the International Standards Organisation (ISO).

Further information on the Symphony Group can be found at www.symphonyenvironmental.com.

 

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