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China Update – Key points:
Beijing office now back at work
Government approval to re- start factory
Production to ramp up over the next month
Inventory held outside China to last till mid-year
No treatments in China planned until late March/April and no delays expected; no effect on FY2020 sales guidance
Brazil Project
Through its Brazilian licensee, PET has received a contract from CEDEA, to treat one of Rio de Janeiro city’s main drinking reservoirs.The application has already commenced and will continue for the next three months, with an estimated value of over $2m
Sometimes , oh well. Was always hard ... "The silence, however, was deafening."Soothing sounds from China.
On January 24, almost a month before the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index cruised to its record high, a listed but little-known water decontamination company with a bunch of contracts in China published a salutary warning about the coronavirus. Phoslock Environmental Technologies reassured investors that there had been no impact on the business from the “current health concerns” in China, and staff had completed the first applications of its CSIRO blue-green-algae-busting technology in Wuhan last September and October.
“None of our staff has been affected and there has been no impact on PET’s business,” Phoslock said, in the first virus-related announcement by an ASX-listed company. The mere mention of an Australian business connection to Wuhan, which is recognised as ground zero for the global spread of the rebadged COVID-19 virus, might have been expected to attract a glimmer of wider interest.
The silence, however, was deafening.
Laurence Freedman is understandably circumspect about the source for his COVID-19 call, which turned out to be remarkably prescient.
“We closed our factory (in central-western China) before most people did,” he tells The Weekend Australian. “The messages we were getting from local authorities were very alarming, and we felt it was necessary to take all necessary precautions.“ The government locked down the Wuhan area shortly after (on January 23)."
Can you please elaborate on that as I would think PET has a fairly good outlook for the medium to long term based on the environmental solution they sell as a product?Froth. Be careful.
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