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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Microcap Potential Homeruns--Credible, and Reporting

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To: caly who wrote (418)12/3/2009 11:53:12 AM
From: Ted M  Read Replies (1) of 1056
 
NADVF,

The story is great, and big players are interested, but the stock is selling with potential built in. To me, cost is critical on how this plays out. Here's something about that, from their website. Sounds like it is definitely cost effective for the organic niche market, and is 'close' for the non-organic. Don't know about paper and other fabrics, which comprise a much bigger overall market.:

fastcompany.com

Naturally Advanced Technologies' process has a big advantage over organic cotton: cost. Crailer Fabric shrinks less during production than cotton, so then final cost is close to that of regular, non-organic cotton. So Hanes gets the advantage of a cost-efficient process along with the environmental credibility that comes with using hemp products.

portfolio.com

But whether hemp can rise above niche status to mainstream appeal will have a lot to do with cost.

In a conference call with investors, Barker said that because Crailar shrinks far less during production than cotton, the resulting savings could bring its final cost closer to regular cotton than organic cotton, which is 60 percent more expensive than regular cotton.
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