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SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PLC

Small Caps Award: ESG Company of the Year

Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc (AIM:SYM), global specialists in technologies that make plastic and rubber products "smarter, safer and more sustainable" are delighted to have been awarded "ESG Company of the Year" for its outstanding global achievements in the ever-important subjects of Environmental, Social and Governance.

The ninth annual Small Cap Awards winners were announced on 11 November and were given across nine categories, recognising outstanding achievements of the best small and micro-cap quoted companies (sub £200m market capitalisation).

Symphony's CEO, Michael Laurier said: "We are honoured to have been recognised for our efforts to make the world a safer and better place, particularly at a time when the attention of the world is focussed on the environment by the COP 26 Summit. Our team continues to work hard to invent and apply technical solutions for plastic pollution, and threats to public health.

"This award follows Symphony attaining the "Green Economy Mark" by the London Stock Exchange, recognising that we derive 50%+ of our activity from the Green Economy.

In addition, in Brazil this week, Symphony's distributor, RES Brasil, won the Plástico Sul Award for Innovation & Sustainability, for plastic bags produced with d2w oxo-biodegradable and d2p antimicrobial technology."

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About Symphony Environmental Technologies plc 

https://www.symphonyenvironmental.com     

Symphony has developed a range of additives, concentrates and master-batches marketed under its d₂p® ("designed to protect") trademark, which can be incorporated in a wide variety of plastic and non-plastic products so as to give them protection against many different types of bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae, moulds, and insects, and against fire. d₂p products also include odour, moisture and ethylene adsorbers as well as other types of food-preserving technologies. Symphony has also launched d₂p anti-microbial household gloves and toothbrushes (most recently in Bahrain), and is developing a range of other d₂p finished products for retail sale.

Symphony has also developed and continues to develop, a biodegradable plastic technology which helps tackle the problem of microplastics by turning ordinary plastic at the end of its service-life into biodegradable materials. It is then no longer a plastic and can be bioassimilated in the open environment in a similar way to a leaf. The 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, most recently Saudi Arabia, oxo-biodegradable plastic is mandatory.

The Group has complemented its d₂w biodegradable product range with d₂c "compostable resins and products" that have been tested to US and EU standards.

Symphony has also developed the d₂Detector®, a portable device which analyses plastics and detects counterfeit products.  This is useful to government officials tasked with enforcing legislation, and Symphony's d₂t tagging and tracer technology is available for further security.

Symphony 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 nearly 100 countries and in many different product applications. Symphony itself is accredited to ISO9001 and ISO14001.

Symphony is a member of The OPA (www.biodeg.org) and 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 Group can be found at www.symphonyenvironmental.com and twitter @SymphonyEnv See also Symphony on Instagram. A Symphony App is available for downloading to smartphones.