Manufacturer of a revolutionary and environmentally-friendly material secures capital funding.

Winchester UK – Exosect today announced two new appointments.  David Richardson joins Exosect as Financial Director. With more than 20 years financial experience, a qualified accountant and treasurer, David’s experience has been focused in the bio-technology sector working for companies such as Evotec AG, Zeneca Cellmark Diagnostics and Marlow Foods then part of ICI Biological Products.

Exosect, a leading provider of Intelligent Pest Management solutions, announced Semco as its Japanese distributor for Exosex SPTab.  The announcement was made at Exosect’s first international distributor conference held in Amsterdam last week.

Specialist plastics packaging technology business Petainer (www.petainer.com) has appointed Martin Lenz as its new group finance and IT director.

Specialist plastics packaging technology business Petainer (www.petainer.com) is to develop new products and markets following the acquisition of PET packaging manufacturer Rostiprimpac.

Bayer CropScience AG acquires innovative product for the control of varroa mites in honey bees from Exosect Ltd.

WHEB Ventures, one of Europe’s leading clean technology private equity firms, has announced it has

changed its name to WHEB Partners.

PET (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) could be the future of packaging in the brewing industry, delegates to the International Brewing Convention (www.ibcmanchester.org) in Manchester, UK, were told this week.

PassivSystems was today recognised as one of the Tech Media Invest 100 in The Guardian. The 100 UK companies were selected by an expert panel of technology and media investors and represent some of the ‘smartest entrepreneurs and most creative solutions in the UK’.