CuanTec taking waste from the fisheries industries and creating innovative products useful to many growing industries worldwide.
The company name comes from the Gaelic word for ocean (cuan, pronounced coo-an). CuanTec takes the best of Scottish innovation and creates sustainable biopolymer products. It is not merely a fine chemical supplier, but develops products providing specific advantage and value-add to their chosen markets. The first product will be anti-microbial food packaging which will reduce spoilage and prolong shelf-life of fresh food. Initially this will be aimed at the seafood sector and then expanded out to all foodstuffs.
With labs in Biocity, Motherwell and European Marine Sciences Park, Oban CuanTec is a rapidly expanding company that takes the best of chemisty and biology and combines them into innovative solutions for plastic pollution and food waste.