Week in View

A busy week with a few early morning Boxing sessions with Reed & the boys. Getting Bri ready for fight night in Bangkok in November - not long to go. Had a flat tyre Friday at the gym - funny to see the wheel of my Motor sitting on the back of a bike taxi with 2 fellas off down the road to get it sorted.

I have to say thanks to my Mam also for running around so many times trying to get my new Blackberry fixed. Rule No.1 in Thailand - never buy a mobile phone in MBK. Mam has been back 6 times after they had supposedly changed the motherboard. Now they have misplaced the memory card! It never ends... so its one last chance to get it fixed of buy a new one. :(

Equitech: Looking to get the BG oil extraction rate enhancer equipment financed for oil mills at the moment which is proving more difficult that I thought. They system can extract 99% of oil from the waste water - hence for Palm Oil Mills it can mean nearly a $1M a year revenue in recovered product.
We also put out quotes for desalination equipment and continued work on our village water projects. Hopefully we can look at an ADB grant from the water for all projects to set up a pilot as we are bringing in some new technology Electrical Coagulator Units (ECU), Electro Magnetic Principle Device (EMPD) & also WR Filters to bring cost effective and VERY clean water to villagers. http://bit.ly/1tJK7g

We have also been working on launching our new Yeast Inhibitor technology which is great for all breweries & pubs - a development of the EMPD that inhibits bacterial growth and hence can lengthen the time between pipe cleaning and saving beer! http://bit.ly/34XFtV

PATT: Dan is heading back to Scarborough for a few weeks - (bring me back fish & chips mate!) - think the cold weather will kill him after time in Bangkok - where the monsoon rains have kicked in and slowed traffic down a lot ..... not that difficult really to do that.

We conducted a project at Bang Pu today - starting with a beach clean up and then onto Mangrove planting. Great to see the place after a few months and to see the growth of trees also. We were there with the guys from the Australian Embassy who had organised to bring the kids from the Bangkok slum area (Kloeng Toey) for a great day out. Hats off to Sister Joan that helps out and keeps a watchful eye on the kids and is looking for donations of clothes and anything else that you think might help. The kids had a great day and finished it off with a hearty lunch, thoroughly enjoying the day & the grub. No doubt they will ALL have been fast asleep on the hour long trip back home! Sumo also had fun in the mud...........no surprises there. He has not moved all afternoon and is snoring his little head off.
We also sent out a report on one of our village development projects in Buriram to Crown Relocations (UK) who supported us on this project. Thanks for that guys and hope the support continues in 2010.

Asia Forestry

Niek & Nick (Our interns) did a great job putting together a promotion video for Asia Forestry. See below. A few beers in the office Friday afternoon went down well as a reward - thanks to Richard.
Our accounts team also headed down to our factory in Trat to get the accounting procedures in place. I hear all went well..... phew!