Symphony Env. Regulatory News (SYM)

3 Aug 2007 07:01

Symphony Environmental Tech. PLC03 August 2007 3 August 2007 SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PLC Appointment of Director Symphony Environmental Technologies plc ("Symphony" or "the Company"), thedegradable plastics and waste-to-energy Group, is pleased to announce that Mr.Michael Stephen has accepted the Directors' invitation to join the Board as anon-Executive Director and has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Company,and Chairman of its subsidiaries. He has been working alongside the Chairmanand management team since 3 April 2007 to drive improvements in the Company'sbusiness. Mr. Stephen (64) qualified as a Solicitor with Distinction in Company Law. Hewas later called to the Bar, and practised from chambers in London for manyyears, dealing with civil cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal. He waselected to Parliament in 1992 and was a member of the Trade and Industry SelectCommittee and the Environment Select Committee of the House of Commons. Heserved in Government as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Ministry ofAgriculture. He held a Harkness Fellowship in law at Stanford and Harvard Universities in theUSA, and was Deputy Legal Adviser to the British Ambassador to the UnitedNations. For six years he delivered the Evelyn Wrench Memorial Lecture onAnglo-American Relations to the English- Speaking Union of the United States,and was a founder-member of the Leadership Seminars at the Georgetown UniversitySchool of Foreign Service, Washington DC. Barrie Michael Lace Stephen is the owner of 36,764 Ordinary Shares and 1,300,000share options in the Company. During the past five years Mr. Stephen has been aDirector of Severnside International Airport Ltd. and Severnside InternationalAirport (Developments) Ltd. - dormant companies from which he has resigned.There is no other information that is required to be disclosed under Schedule 2paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules. Michael Laurier, Chief Executive said "We are delighted to welcome MichaelStephen to the Board of Symphony. His distinguished background and wideexperience will bring great strength to the Group in the future." Symphony Environmental TechnologiesMichael Laurier, Group Chief Executive Tel: 020 8207 5900Ian Bristow, Finance Director Citigate Dewe RogersonFreida Moore Tel: 020 7638 9571Ged Brumby Further information on the Symphony Environmental Technologies Group ofcompanies: SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL LTD is a world leader in oxo-biodegradable plastics. Itdevelops and supplies environmentally-responsible pro-degradant additives aswell as oxo-biodegradable plastic film, and rigid packaging products. SYMPHONY ENERGY RESOURCES LTD. is developing innovative waste-to-energytechnology and is exploring many opportunities where there is a demand toconvert plastics, tyres and other waste streams into valuable products by costeffective processes. SYMPHONY PLASTICS LTD has for many years supplied a popular range ofconventional plastic bags and other plastic packaging products. THE SYMPHONY GROUP has a diverse and growing customer base in the UK and hassuccessfully established itself as an international business after signingagreements with companies in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada & USA, theCaribbean, Chile, Colombia, France, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal,South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and Qatar. Its d2w(R) products can alreadybe found in more than 50 countries. Further information on the Symphony Group can be found atwww.symphonyplastics.com and www.degradable.net This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange