Metabolix to Conduct a Webcast of Its First Quarter 2007 Financial Results
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Apr 30, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX), announced today that it will be releasing its first quarter 2007 financial results after the market close on Thursday, May 10, 2007. The full text of the release will also be available on the Company's website at www.metabolix.com. James Barber, the Company's CEO will host a conference call on the same day at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern).
The conference call will be webcast and can be accessed from the Company's website at www.metabolix.com in the investor relations section, as well as from the following link: http://viavid.net/dce.aspx?sid=00003E27. For those who are unable to listen to the webcast live, an indexed recording of the call will be posted on the Company's website following the completion of the conference call.
To listen to a telephonic replay of the conference call, dial toll-free 1-888-203-1112 or 1-719-457-0820 for international callers and enter passcode 7704180. The replay will be available beginning at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern) on Thursday, May 10, 2007 and will last through 11:59 PM (Eastern) May 17, 2007.
Under the terms of the lock-up agreements signed in connection with the Company's initial public offering, expiration of the lock-up period is extended and will end on May 28, 2007.
About Metabolix
Founded in 1992, Metabolix, Inc. is an innovation driven bioscience company providing clean, sustainable solutions for the world's needs for plastics, fuels, and chemicals. The Company is taking a systems approach, from gene to end product, to integrate sophisticated biotechnology with advanced industrial practice, and is now developing and commercializing environmentally sustainable and totally biodegradable Mirel(TM) natural plastics as a clean alternative to petroleum-based plastics. In addition to its microbial fermentation platform for producing Mirel(TM) natural plastics, Metabolix is also developing a proprietary platform technology for co-producing, in biomass energy crops such as switchgrass, natural plastics and biomass for biofuels such as ethanol and for chemical products. For more information, please visit www.metabolix.com. (MBLX-G)
SOURCE: Metabolix, Inc.
Investor Relations ICR Kathleen Heaney, 203-803-3585 ir@metabolix.com
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