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Semco Announces McCarren International Airport Surfacing Contract Wednesday January 25, 8:30 am ET
LEXINGTON, KY--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 25, 2006 -- Plasticon International Inc. (Other OTC:PLNI.PK - News) announced today that SEMCO Manufacturing, Inc. was chosen as a surfacing vendor by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and McCarren International Airport. McCarren International Airport is located in Las Vegas and is owned and operated by Clark County, Nevada. Plasticon International, Inc. recently completed the acquisition of SEMCO.
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Had to Bring PLNI to the top of the forum. This is awesome! .01 !!! Stayed in this purely off the fact that Murnak wouldnt shut up about it.
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"SEMCO is landing contracts with some of the best companies and largest projects in the world. Plasticon will be able to provide distribution, sales and marketing contacts that SEMCO has not tapped into before. The airport contract announced today for McCarren International is local to SEMCO since this company is located in Las Vegas. Imagine what will happen when the rest of the world finds out about the SEMCO product line. We are confident SEMCO could provide Plasticon with revenues in the hundreds of millions in years to come. Game on!"
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Only regret on this one is that I didnt beef up on it when I bought my second time. Not making that mistake with some of my other stocks. Good Job Murnak.
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The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day, The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast.
They thought, "if only Strike1 could but get a whack at that. We'd put up even money now, with Strike1 at the bat."
But Flynn preceded Strike1, as did also Jimmy Blake; and the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake.
So upon that stricken multitude, grim melancholy sat; for there seemed but little chance of Strike1 getting to the bat.
But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all. And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball.
And when the dust had lifted, and men saw what had occurred, there was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.
Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell; it rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
it pounded through on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat; for Strike1, mighty Strike1, was advancing to the bat.
There was ease in Strike1's manner as he stepped into his place, there was pride in Strike1's bearing and a smile lit Strike1's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, no stranger in the crowd could doubt t'was Strike1 at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt. Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then, while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip, defiance flashed in Strike1's eye, a sneer curled Strike1's lip.
And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air, and Strike1 stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped -- "That ain't my style," said Strike1.
"Strike one!" the umpire said. From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar, like the beating of the storm waves on a stern and distant shore.
"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand, and it's likely they'd have killed him had not Strike1 raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity, great Strike1's visage shone, he stilled the rising tumult, he bade the game go on.
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the dun sphere flew, but Strike1 still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two!"
"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered "Fraud!" But one scornful look from Strike1 and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, and they knew that Strike1 wouldn't let that ball go by again.
The sneer has fled from Strike1's lip, the teeth are clenched in hate. He pounds, with cruel violence, his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, and now the air is shattered by the force of Strike1's blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright. The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And, somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout,
but there is no joy in Mudville -- mighty Strike1 has struck out.
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Plasticon International to Launch Marketing Campaign for SEMCO in February Friday January 27, 8:30 am ET
LEXINGTON, KY--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 27, 2006 -- Plasticon International Inc. (Other OTC:PLNI.PK - News) announced today the company will begin the rollout of an integrated marketing campaign for SEMCO Manufacturing in February 2006.
According to Jim Turek, President and CEO of Plasticon International, Inc., "SEMCO is gaining momentum every day in the $100 Billion + surfacing industry. Plasticon's team will work with SEMCO in the coming months to create a world class marketing campaign that will effectively communicate the unique contribution that SEMCO is making to the surfacing industry. We believe that when SEMCO's products get additional exposure, their revolutionary surfacing systems will increasingly gain market share. The marketing campaign will include a new marketing theme and slogan, redesigned web site, print materials, trade shows, and an advertising campaign targeted to industry partners and large contractors. As we have mentioned in the past, we believe that SEMCO will ultimately become the greatest profit center for Plasticon International in the years ahead. We look forward to building the SEMCO brand and expanding their marketing efforts. We will continue to keep our shareholders informed about SEMCO's progress as we move forward."
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Off Topic - Science can be Fun..: "..Crock-O-Cluckasaur..", an ancient relative of the PLNI BashHoles has been discovered in NY.....
Fossil hunters make rare find in basement - Thursday, January 26, 2006; Posted: 3:02 p.m. EST (20:02 GMT)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A toothless, two-legged crocodile ancestor that walked upright and had a beak instead of teeth was discovered in the basement of New York's American Museum of Natural History, according to a report published on Wednesday.
The 210 million-year-old fossil had sat in storage at the museum for nearly 60 years and was found only by accident, the paleontologists said.
The animal is interesting because it closely resembles a completely unrelated dinosaur called an ostrich dinosaur that lived 80 million years later, they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a British science journal.
"A lot of people, from seeing (the film) Jurassic Park know what an ostrich dinosaur looked like," said museum curator Mark Norell. "This is a case of convergence with the ostrich dinosaur. It evolved more than once."
The six-foot-long (2 meter) fossil is an archosaur, an extinct type of animal that includes the ancestors of dinosaurs, crocodilians and birds. It lived in what is now New Mexico, in the southwestern United States.
It was discovered in blocks of rock from the Ghost Ranch Quarry that were excavated in 1947 and 1948.
Scientists thought that all the specimens were Coelophysis, a small, carnivorous dinosaur that lived at the same time.
"It was collected in this quarry that literally had hundreds of skeletons in it," Norell said in a telephone interview.
Norell and graduate student Sterling Nesbitt were looking for Coelophysis fossils when they opened a plaster cast containing the archosaur, which they have named Effigia okeeffeae. The name recalls both the ranch and painter Georgia O'Keefe, who had an interest in the quarry.
Effigia is closely related to an ancient group of reptiles called crocodilians, which includes today's crocodiles and alligators. It was not a dinosaur.
Like other crocodilians of the time, it had a large eye, the researchers said.
Its skull and skeleton were very similar to those of ostrich dinosaurs, with a beak, a long tail, and two-legged stance. Its ankle, however, shows its relationship to crocodilians.
"There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten," Norell said.
But he and Nesbitt noted that Effigia also resembles early theropod dinosaurs -- the two-legged carnivores.
So they reexamined some isolated Triassic reptile specimens and found that Effigia-like animals were common in the samples from western North America.
It could be, they said, that animals like Effigia dominated what are now the Americas, and that dinosaur evolution only took off after Effigia went extinct, leaving a niche.
Searching the storage rooms of museums often turns up treasures such as these, Norell said.
"Something that people often don't realize is that after you collect, it sometimes takes thousands of hours to remove the stuff from the cast for analysis," he said.
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Plasticon Announces That SEMCO's System Is Selected and Specified for Department of Transportation Surfacing Contract 1/30/2006 8:30:09
LEXINGTON, KY, Jan 30, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Plasticon International Inc. (PLNI) announced today SEMCO's Ultimate Surface Effects(R) system has been selected and specified for the I-215 / I-515 Interchange ramp slope pavement project for the Nevada Department of Transportation (DOT).
"We are thrilled to be selected by the Nevada Department of Transportation on the Interchange project," said Samel Sem, President and founder of SEMCO Manufacturing. "SEMCO was specified for this project because our environmentally responsible system will allow the Nevada DOT to both improve the functionality of the freeway and to beautify the community at the same time. Our surfacing system will not only allow the DOT to use more vibrant color and design combinations, it will also enable them to prevent graffiti with SEMCO's proprietary protective coating, and to eliminate the absorption of water into the surface of the structure thereby prolonging the use of the freeway."
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A Department of Transportation (DOT) contract is extremely significant. The signing of the contract with McCarren International Airport and now the Nevada DOT paves the way for other similar government related contracts throughout the country and the world. The recent contracts announced by SEMCO through Plasticon give further support and ammunition as a new marketing campaign is rolled out next month, February 2006 per its announcement last Friday, January 27.
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Cementing the road for growth 1/25/2006 11:13:14 AM By Jacqueline P. Nguyen Associate Editor
The decade-long construction boom in the United States has led to an increasing shortage in the supply of cement. Consumption of cement in the US reached record levels each year in the last decade with the exception of 2002.
Emerging countries with growing economies are also ladling demand for cement and drawing supply from the limited amount of cement that is available on the general market.
There has been some increase in capacity to produce cement, but not enough to keep up with demand. Exports aside, China actually consumes 100 million tons of cement, more than it produces.
Shortage and supply come as nothing new to the industry. During the huge construction boom of the 90s, in the then thriving construction market, cement demand went through a similar crunch. In fact cement demand has ebbed and flowed since the post-World War II building boom.
Rinker Group Ltd. (NYSE: RIN) is one of several companies in this market bathing in the rewards of high demand, and scant production.
Rinker is an international heavy building materials company with a broad line of concrete and aggregate products. Rinker is made up of Rinker Materials Corporation in the US and the Readymix Holdings businesses in Australia and China.
“We’ve face additional costs like everybody,” said Debra Sterling, Rinker’s vice president of corporate affairs and investor relations. “Additional fuels, energy costs, so obviously we’ve had to put the price up and I think that’s been reflective of all of the cement manufacturers.” Fortunately, Sterling noted, the Company “has been able to recoup this with price increases in the market with downstream products like concrete.”
Although the company has operations around the globe, more than 90 percent of its sales come from the United States in markets where Rinker holds a commanding position. “The fastest growing states in the US are Nevada, Arizona, and Florida,” Sterling said. “What that means is we have continuous new business because people need new schools, new medical facilities, hotels, offices. In addition you need infrastructure, roads, bridges. And so it really helps us to have that exposure in those high growth markets. We definitely like to take strong positions, and we have strong positions, and are in very strong markets and that’s the key to our business model. We insist on earning above our costs of capital on every dollar that is invested, and that’s integrated right into our business.”
Although Rinker has been quiet on the acquisition front for the last several years, the Company, which completed roughly 40 acquisitions since 1998, has seen a 15 percent increase in its current sales, and a significant return on its investments by pouring its money into concrete, quarries, rock plants, and establishing cement mills, in places like Florida “where there is a drastic need,” Sterling said.
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Plasticon Intl (PK: PLNI) – PLNI was the biggest percentage gainer by far during the month. Although PLNI closed January out on a sour note, the move for the month was nothing short of spectacular. We are impressed by announcements regarding the acquisition of SEMCO and new contracts, but would still like to see the company’s auditors complete their work. Our expectations are still high that PLNI will deliver.
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The company has also been increasing its public appearances at trade shows and industry events to boost awareness within their sector. Plasticon recently attended the World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, a key event for companies in the construction industry. Plasticon also announced that the company will be releasing details of their buyback program and news about new SEMCO contracts in the very near future. "In the next several weeks, we will be making some major announcements with details about our buyback program and additional SEMCO surfacing contracts,"
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Outstanding Shares: 3,727,740,100 as of 2006-01-31
Estimated Market Cap: 27.212M as of 2006-02-01 (based on Outstanding Shares as of 2006-01-31) Authorized Shares: 5,000,000,000 as of 2005-11-21 Float: 2,304,576,805 as of 2006-01-31 Number of Shareholders of Record: 5,000 as of 2005-12-07 http://www.pinksheets.com/quote/company_profile.jsp?symbol=PLNI
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How fast do you figure they get paid by Bluelinx! Once the cash flow evens out they can buy back shares but I imagine it takes a lot of product to get a basis order into each of 65 warehouses..............maybe get pd in 90 days???
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