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CuanTec
#Chitosan
Who is CuanTec™?
CuanTec is a UK-based bio-science company, manufacturing Chitosan from natural, sustainable sources, such as crustacean shell from the UK-based shellfish industry.
Chitosan is a natural biopolymer, which is fully biodegradable and ocean-friendly. With its many therapeutic and physicochemical attributes, it is increasingly finding favour across the world as a replacement for fossil-fuel based polymers across multiple product areas- from biomedical devices (using its fast acting haemostatic capability) to water-purification (using its polycationic nature).
CuanTec manufactures Chitosan at its site in the UK, to the highest technical specifications required by customers, with a specific focus on the biomedical, specialist water purification and agri-chemical sectors.
CuanTec is proud of its level of operational and management expertise with its HACCP programme and accreditation secured for ISO 9001, 14,001, 45001 and Halal. CuanTec will look to continue to raise its standards.
CuanTec offers full end-to-end transparency to its customers with audit-visibility of the raw shell feedstock right “back to the boat”.
CuanTec’s manufacturing expertise and flexible process, combined with its onsite laboratory and highly skilled scientists, ensures that we can produce the product which customers want at the volumes they want, in the format they want.
CuanTec upcycles a byproduct from one industry (crustacean shells) into a valuable product for other uses, where lives can be saved, where water can be purified and where crop growth can be enhanced with reduced or zero environmental impact.
CuanTec is proud to be supported by its investors, led by the Scottish Government, Hive Energy Ltd and Founders Factory.