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mcof? good afternoon. how ya do'in my friend?
what's up doc?
any mining and metal issues?
If ECOF would drop down to about .02 , I might get some.They just announced a CC deal on the 5th.MT
keep me posted on this one.
CALCITECH FILES NEW RECYCLING PATENT
CALCITECH’S NEW PROCESS ENABLES PAPER TO BE COMPLETELY RECYCLED
Geneva, Switzerland, December 22nd 2009 - CalciTech Ltd. (OTCBB: CLKTF) CalciTech announces that it has filed a new patent for a technology that enables paper producers to recycle all the minerals used in paper. This brings significant environmental and product benefits by eliminating disposal costs and replacing quarried minerals from distant sources with a recycled mineral that has better brightness, whiteness, opacity and printability than the original.
By enabling the raw material to be renewed in a closed loop, the paper industry can move closer towards the goal of zero waste, zero environmental impact and carbon footprint-free production. This will significantly reinforce their sustainability credentials.
The usage of recycled paper has reached 50 million tonnes in Europe and continues to grow as the demand for sustainable products increases. However it is not generally realised that paper contains up to 40% minerals which remain as a waste sludge after the recovery of the cellulose fibres. The elimination of this sludge is a growing problem following the new EU Waste Directive. Similar problems exist with recycled paper in North America and China.
CalciTech's new process overcomes the problem of impurities that has hitherto hindered the re-use of the minerals. The new process uses CalciTech's original technology for treating waste lime and applies it to solve a growing environmental problem. Trials have been successfully completed with waste from a range of paper mills. The Synthetic Calcium Carbonate produced from this waste is of exceptionally high brightness and low abrasivity. Extensive trials will be carried out with potential customers during 2010.
Letter of intent from Spain's largest lime producer
CALCITECH REACHES AGREEMENT WITH CALCINOR
Geneva, Switzerland, September 23rd 2009 - CalciTech Ltd. (OTCBB: CLKTF) CalciTech announces today that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Calcinor SA of Spain. Calcinor is Spain’s largest producer of lime, which is the principal raw material for CalciTech’s Synthetic Calcium Carbonate (SCC). The objective is to build a plant at one of Calcinor’s sites.
Michael Watts, CalciTech’s Marketing Director stated, “This is an excellent opportunity for us to develop our business in southwest Europe with an experienced partner, as an additional territory for our planned production plant program for Europe.
Calcinor is a company with extensive operations in Spain and elsewhere and we look forward to a productive long- term relationship.
By transferring a new technology to Spain, we can enable the paper, paint, plastics and food industries to upgrade their products. We intend to work with Calcinor to develop the market and secure commitments from customers.”
Martin Sarobe, Calcinor’s Director of Innovation and Development added, ”This is an opportunity for Calcinor to diversify its product line and introduce a new technology. It makes better use of our lime capacity and there are also benefits from the CO2 that is absorbed by the CalciTech SCC process.”
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this is a good read.
re;
as it stands now, maybe calcinoir in spain, there is talk of building a plant at their facility and partner up with them...
MBOT
we'll have to see where this fits in...
MBOT
this doesn't appear to be green CC but gots green name? Greens Worldwide, Inc (BB: GRWW)
clean shell fer a greeny.
yes, one to watch there...
MBOT
as it stands now, maybe calcinoir in spain, there is talk of building a plant at their facility and partner up with them...
MBOT
i think last was around $0.14
Well, the biggest problem there is their assets, we need to find them if they are real or not, if you know some good diggers, get them to help...
MBOT
hmmm, good; one to keep off the radar.
do they have a j.v.partner?
what can we add for ENCS today?
good I'll hang around as long as possible....
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i'll check. there was some good dd doing ceo anthony k. welch.
encs
need to checkup on whar said there yesterday.
goodies on welch.
added coment to encs...
MBOT
green stuff should do well this year.
Only thing holding this back is funding to build plant, they had it all worked out, funding approved, grants in place banks finished DD, patents in place... all in order and done...Then global credit meltdown....That hurt more than you know...weep...cry, someone please fund this green wonder of a company...
MBOT
I haven't looked at pps yet...
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yep, just started the board a bit early, just wait till it blooms...
MBOT
that is a wow position. re;CALCITECH LTD(OTC BB: CLKTF.OB)
Last Trade: 0.07
Trade Time: Jan 8
I would love to see this one move up, I have more than 60k, I looked yesterday and have 75k...
MBOT
i didn't think pps would be in $0.10 area.
(PINKSHEETS: GRNO),
this forum gots some good ideas.
i see market trends position.
I saw this yesterday somewhere...
Another CC one IMO
MBOT
yes I think they would qualify for CC's
MBOT
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CalciTech Files New Recycling Patent
Business Wire(Tue, Dec 22)Calcitech Holds Annual General Meeting
PR Newswire(Mon, Dec 14)CalciTech's Sustainable Technology Helps Industry
PR Newswire(Tue, Nov 24)CalciTech Launches Sustainable Product for Plastics Industry
PR Newswire(Wed, Nov 11)CalciTech Reports Major Shareholder Filing
PR Newswire(Mon, Nov 2)New Ultrapure Calcium Supplement
PR Newswire(Tue, Oct 27)CalciTech Attends Eurocoat Exhibition
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this is from rigs, good handicapper. Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. Names Taylor Capitol, Inc. as Primary Investor Relations Group
Jan 8, 2010 4:05:00 PM
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EDMONTON, AB -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/08/10 -- Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GRNO), a Florida corporation which provides environmental remediation solutions to the billion dollar North American market for the cleaning and potential reuse of contaminated solids from slop oil and separating oil from waste water, is pleased to announce Taylor Capitol, Inc., as their primary investor relations group.
Taylor Capitol, Inc. has a deep network of connections in the investment community. This network ranges from retail brokers, fund managers, buy side analysts, market awareness companies, investment bankers, senior level management consultants and Wall Street firms specializing in transitioning companies to the AMEX. The company's latest featured stocks can be viewed on their site www.PennyMover.com.
Taylor Capitol, Inc. President Stephen Taylor states, "It is an honor to serve as GRNO's primary investor relations group. We have researched Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. for several months and view GRNO as a true diamond in the rough. We are pleased with their most recent acquisition of Custom Carbon Processing Inc. (CCP). CCP sells processed slop oil to Shell Trading (US) Company (www.shell.us). Shell Trading (US) Company is a corporation that acts as the single market interface for Royal Dutch Shell companies and affiliates in the United States. In addition to GRNO's most recent acquisition, GRNO is seeking to further take advantage of the $100 Billion North American market for the cleaning and reuse of contaminated solids from heavy oil exploration and development." Mr. Taylor continued to state, "We have several initiatives set forth in order to increase market awareness and corporate growth."
About Green Oasis Environmental
Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (GRNO) is dedicated to acquiring and providing access to world class technologies available today and has chosen to focus its efforts on seeking acquisitions of technology and/or operations concerning the remediation of slop oil, waste engine oil, and tank bottom oils. GRNO has every intention of becoming the single best option for reclaiming oil to pipeline specification from these waste products. Through the Company's state of the art technology, GRNO will be able to process these waste products at one of their facilities or at a customer's site by way of implementing its portable processing technology.
About Custom Carbon Processing
"CCP." is a Wyoming based Company formed in 2006 that has been operating in the Gillette, Wyoming area since its inception. Through the technology that "CCP." has developed, CCP is able to process slop oil (an unrefined, non saleable oil) into pipeline standard crude. Its current facility has the capabilities of processing up to 1,500 barrels of slop oil with a conversion ratio of approximately 50% to finished crude. Through its ongoing contract, "CCP." sells the processed slop oil to Shell Trading (US) Company (www.shell.us). Shell Trading (US) Company is a corporation that acts as the single market interface for Royal Dutch Shell companies and affiliates in the United States with offices in Houston, TX (headquarters); Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Midland, TX; and San Antonio, TX; and has an affiliated Shell Trading company in Calgary, Alberta. Shell Trading buys and sells more than five million barrels per day of hydrocarbons, is one of the largest physical traders of hydrocarbons in the United States and one of the world's largest energy trading company.
In addition to its Wyoming facility, "CCP." is currently planning expansion of its processing technology into Montana and North Dakota, home of the Bakken (www.bakkenblog.com) and Three Forks plays, said to be two of the largest oil plays in North America.
For more information on Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. or Custom Carbon Processing Inc., please visit http://www.greenoasisenvironmental.com or contact Investor Relations at (877) 207-3370.
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Statements about the Company's future expectations and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbors created thereby.
The above information contains information relating to the Company that is based on the beliefs of the Company and/or its management, as well as assumptions made by any information currently available to the Company or its management. When used in this document, the words "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plans," "projects," and similar expressions, as they relate to the Company or its management, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the current view of the Company regarding future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including the risks and uncertainties noted. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated, expected, intended or projected. In each instance, forward-looking information should be considered in light of the accompanying meaningful cautionary statements herein. Factors that could cause results to differ include, but are not limited to, successful performance of internal plans, the impact of competitive services and pricing and general economic risks and uncertainties.
Contact:
Investor Relations
Taylor Capitol, Inc.
Stephen Taylor
(877) 207-3370
grno.ir@greenoasisenvironmental.com
i see ibox looks sweet. would ecci qualify for CC stocks.pk
is this only fer pinks as shown?
Hmm! got to look...
MBOT
Have ya'll looked at ECOF?MT
CALCITECH FILES NEW RECYCLING PATENT
CALCITECH’S NEW PROCESS ENABLES PAPER TO BE COMPLETELY RECYCLED
Geneva, Switzerland, December 22nd 2009 - CalciTech Ltd. (OTCBB: CLKTF) CalciTech announces that it has filed a new patent for a technology that enables paper producers to recycle all the minerals used in paper. This brings significant environmental and product benefits by eliminating disposal costs and replacing quarried minerals from distant sources with a recycled mineral that has better brightness, whiteness, opacity and printability than the original.
By enabling the raw material to be renewed in a closed loop, the paper industry can move closer towards the goal of zero waste, zero environmental impact and carbon footprint-free production. This will significantly reinforce their sustainability credentials.
The usage of recycled paper has reached 50 million tonnes in Europe and continues to grow as the demand for sustainable products increases. However it is not generally realised that paper contains up to 40% minerals which remain as a waste sludge after the recovery of the cellulose fibres. The elimination of this sludge is a growing problem following the new EU Waste Directive. Similar problems exist with recycled paper in North America and China.
CalciTech's new process overcomes the problem of impurities that has hitherto hindered the re-use of the minerals. The new process uses CalciTech's original technology for treating waste lime and applies it to solve a growing environmental problem. Trials have been successfully completed with waste from a range of paper mills. The Synthetic Calcium Carbonate produced from this waste is of exceptionally high brightness and low abrasivity. Extensive trials will be carried out with potential customers during 2010.
Market Pulse, CTEI news...Last week.
Market Pulse Breaking News Alert for Wednesday, December 9, 2009: CTEI -- Environmental Protection Agency's Ruling on Green Hous
Date : 12/09/2009 @ 8:30AM
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Market Pulse Breaking News Alert for Wednesday, December 9, 2009: CTEI -- Environmental Protection Agency's Ruling on Green Hous
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Market Pulse News Alert for this AM, Stocks to Watch are: Cemtrex Inc. (OTCBB: CTEI), Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT), Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: SNSS) and MedClean Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: MCLN)
Investors need to be watching Cemtrex Inc. (OTCBB: CTEI) this AM! Cemtrex is a worldwide market leader in manufacturing and selling the most advanced equipment, instruments and software for emission monitoring of particulate, opacity, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, etc. and filtration products. Emissions monitoring is vital in ensuring that the mandated reductions of Greenhouse gases and SOx, NOx and CO2 under Acid Rain and Kyoto programs are achieved. Cemtrex is a proven leader in providing environmental solutions to the chemicals, pulp and paper, steel, power, coal, and petrochemical industries, as well as to municipalities, hospitals, and state and federal governments. The company's current products include the following: Opacity monitor: Compliance & non-compliance types; Extractive Continuous Emission Monitors; Ammonia Analyzer; Mercury Analyzer; Carbon dioxide and other green house gas monitors. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Griffin Filters, Cemtrex serves the worldwide industrial and concrete markets, providing innovative designs for air pollution control applications in addition to solids processing and product recovery applications. Cemtrex also markets Green Demand-Controlled ventilation (Green DCV), an innovative energy efficiency solution for high-quality green building applications, through optimizing HVAC control systems. Cemtrex's Green DCV creates up to 40% energy savings and improves indoor air quality by enhancing the ventilation of any building. Green DCV's revolutionary design differs from traditional demand control ventilation by being more intelligent, cost effective, and efficient. Cemtrex also provides turnkey services for carbon creation projects from abatement of greenhouse gases pursuant to Kyoto protocol and assists project owners in creating and selling of carbon credits globally
Cemtrex recently announced it has entered into an agreement with a South American coal mine company to develop, supply and construct a coal mine methane (CMM) project to create carbon credits. This CMM project will be developed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's Clean Development Mechanism, and will generate over 100,000 carbon credits per year. "This CMM project will capture and destroy over 97% of all methane emissions from the coal mines by utilizing various cost-effective technologies," said Arun Govil, CEO & President of Cemtrex. "We anticipate this project to be operational by the end of 2010." The world market for emission monitoring instruments will exceed $2.6 billion/yr by 2011 up from $1.0 billion in 2008. Asia will be the fast growing region as it struggles to solve severe air pollution problems. Eastern European countries represent another growth sector. Cemtrex expects tremendous growth for its Green House gas reduction technologies, carbon credits, energy efficiency products, and emission monitoring system in the coming years due to global warming and world focus on reducing green house gas emissions. Cemtrex sees new opportunities emerging due to the boost received by the current administration's "cap and trade" climate change initiative to fight global warming. This is a market-driven system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. With the adoption of cap-and-trade programs by the United States and other nations the carbon credits market is expected to reach over $700 billion in 2013. Cemtrex Inc. is poised to become a significant player in the scientific and technical instruments technology industry! CTEI just had excellent news out in a press release before today's bell announcing that it is extremely optimistic about the growth opportunities resulting from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) long-anticipated ruling on December 7 that greenhouse gases threaten public health, and the administration shall regulate smokestack and tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases! This could be great news for investors!
Cemtrex, Inc. (OTCBB: CTEI) is extremely optimistic about the growth opportunities resulting from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) long-anticipated ruling on December 7 that greenhouse gases threaten public health, and the administration shall regulate smokestack and tailpipe emissions of green house gases. Any new legislation from EPA could force the automotive industry and the utilities, that burn coal, oil and natural gas, to take drastic steps to cut these emissions and commence the process of requiring them to spend billions of dollars on technologies to slash green house gas emissions including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides
Coming near the start of the international climate change conference now underway in Copenhagen, Denmark, some experts believe that the EPA ruling signals to other conference participants that U.S.A. can now control emissions whether or not the Congress passes any legislative limits
"These EPA regulations shall now be able to regulate millions of emitters of carbon dioxide, ranging from office buildings to churches that burn natural gas for heating, and coal mines that emit methane into the atmosphere," said Arun Govil, CEO & President of Cemtrex Inc. "This would likely give boost to our energy efficiency products that lower energy usage, such as green-DCV and MCDR units that capture methane from coal mines to generate heat and create carbon credits," continued Mr. Govil
"Preliminary pilot plant tests on our carbon capture technology to be utilized at power plants has shown tremendous promise," said Metodi Filipov, Vice President of Cemtrex Inc. "We are conducting further tests and are confident that we can soon deliver a viable technology that would only add no more than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour to the cost of power generation," continued Mr. Filipov
Cemtrex, Inc. is a worldwide market leader in manufacturing and selling the most advanced instruments for emission monitoring of particulate, opacity, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, etc. and filtration products for the industry. Cemtrex also markets Green DCV, an innovative energy efficiency solution for high-quality green building applications, through optimizing HVAC control systems. Cemtrex provides technologies and services for abatement of greenhouse gases pursuant to Kyoto protocol and assists customers in creating and selling carbon credits from such projects. The company's products are sold to power plants, refineries, chemical plants, cement plants and other industries, including federal and state governmental agencies
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Looking for more Carbon Credit stocks because it gives a company a reoccuring positive cash infusion to accent profits and adds to botton line with business as usual conditions.
MBOT
E-mail Response regarding carbon credits from calcitech.
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Make that 66.7% today alone.
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Yes, up 30%, looking good.
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SGCP 0.0063x0.0064~
I'll take a look!
Thanks
MBOT
To cool for school my friend, keep em comming.
Thanx
MBOT
yes very hard to find info,
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Jeez you guys are fast.You beat me by a few hours.What do ya'll think about these guys? I'm having trouble finding DD on them.
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must read :SGCP is going HUGE ,(COP 15) on DEC 7- DEC 18 the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen will be a turning point in the fight to prevent climate disaster.
link:http://unfccc.int/2860.php
U.S. President Obama to Attend Copenhagen’s Climate Change Summit
Most Recent Climate Change
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) — U.S. President Obama will attend climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, the day before he officially accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, the White House said.
An administration official said Obama will help kick off the U.N.-sponsored climate change summit Dec. 9 despite negotiators’ inability to secure a binding global treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Obama’s attendance at the climate change conference had been in doubt for weeks. He said he would attend only if he thought his being there will help produce a meaningful result. The summit was called to approve a successor document to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, due to expire in 2012.
While a binding agreement hasn’t been struck, officials in many countries pledged to reach an interim agreement that would set emission reduction targets and serve as a step toward a more comprehensive treaty, the Post said.
The United States hasn’t announced its targets, but administration officials indicated the targets would be revealed soon.
A White House official said Obama will meet with other world leaders in Copenhagen to help “move the process forward” during his one-day visit to the conference, scheduled from Dec. 7-18.
He will be in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10 to formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
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"Spinning straw to gold" or how to create green parks out of fields of waste "Environmentally viewed, CalciTech has made an incredible move: We can actually clean up waste lime pits and transform the waste into a commercial quality product," Marc Janssens, COO of CalciTech Ltd., sums up the basic facts of his company's new commercial - and at the same time - environmental strategy: The production of very pure and fine SCC basically out of the combination of waste carbide lime and the omnipresent air-polluting CO2. The company's innovative product is made by a method developed in collaboration with several Universities and Research Centres. Its simple commercial formula grounds on the decrease of waste and pollution as well as on the economic ideal of exploiting cheap or even free resources. Compared to conventional PCC production, CalciTech has added several new processing steps in order to control the quality of the resulting crystalline substance; compared to the traditional approach, the unique advantage though is the possibility of being able to use waste instead of natural lime resources. Health and environmental problems of carbide lime Carbide lime is a problem waste. The primary concern associated with it is its high alkalinity - its pH factor of up to 12,45 - with its potential impacts to soil and groundwater. Moreover, the lime is contaminated by free carbon, ferrosilicon and also small amounts of several metal oxides. Skin- and eye-irritation may result from overexposure to the unwanted substance. Marc Janssens though, likes to remain reasonable about its hazardous effects: "Carbide lime certainly is industrial waste but the ponds are not highly dangerous. Its real problem is the storage, since there is so much of it." Carbide lime is everywhere Throughout the industrial world, it is estimated that tens of million of tons of carbide lime sit in huge ponds, ruining the landscape with their endless grey heaps of mud. Particularly affected by these waste pits are the former eastern bloc countries, such as the eastern part of Germany, Poland, and Slovakia. In Schkopau, a small German town close to Leipzig, there is probably more than 40 million tons of the polluted material "stored" in enormous pits. The waste material results from acetylene gas production, which was particularly important for the former eastern bloc economies. First Site Selected It is in Leuna, near Schkopau, where CalciTech is currently operating a small-scale production plant, and it is also where the Company plans to build its first full-scale commercial plant. In order to feed this plant, CalciTech has secured the operation rights for two of the pits at the Schkopau site. Furthermore, the Company obtains the required CO2 from Linde AG, an industrial company operating in the same industrial park in Leuna as CalciTech. Hochhalde-Schkopau Waste Site Western countries though should be far from thinking they were not concerned: before the 1990's practically all PVC production was based on acetylene, generated from calcium carbide. No surprise, we find large waste ponds also in the U.S.A. and many other countries. "We will certainly not empty all these waste ponds," comments Marc Janssens, COO, on the amounts of carbide lime needed for future SCC, "but our approach leads in the right direction. We cannot continue forever to create more and more waste." SCC vs PCC Production The most widespread traditional method of producing PCC is still the so-called "direct process", which starts from high quality limestone and natural gas as a fuel in order to guarantee a high purity. CalciTech has attempted to avoid natural resources and will still achieve an outstandingly fine, pure and consistent material, attributes previously difficult to achieve conventionally. The first stage for CalciTechs' new production variant was the "bench work" in collaboration with the University of Lyon, France, in 1997, followed by a long period of testing and improvements, with the help of a contracted research company. More information on CalciTech's process can be found on the Technology page of this site. CalciTech Concept In the same way the recycled carbide lime in CalciTech SCC can enhance the environmental quality of paint and plastic, partially and increasingly replacing the more expensive fillers based on natural resources. The introduction of ecological sources for SCC not only turns a page in CalciTech's own environmental engagements, but it marks a new approach towards industrial production in general: The use of waste instead of the exploitation of natural resources and the decrease rather than the increase of industrial waste and pollution. |
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