Unlocking the Chitin Economy.
Inside the shells of shrimp and other creatures is a material that can touch the human world in unique and beneficial ways: CHITIN, a powerful, natural polymer containing characteristics with the potential to alter industries, improve the environment, and change the way we live. Mari Signum produces market-ready, premium quality chitin in an environmentally conscious manner and provides companies with a technology platform and the scientific resources they require to change the world. View the Ross Group PLC Press Release.
WINNER: 2018 Green Chemistry Challenge
Mari Signum has received the prestigious 2018 Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in recognition of its unique technology that allows the sustainable isolation & extraction of the chitin polymer from crustacean shell biomass. Past winners of this annual EPA award include Merck, Amgen, Dow Chemical, Kraton Performance Polymers, Codexis, BASF, Dupont, Cargill and Bayer Corporation.
Unlocking the Chitin Economy.
Inside the shells of shrimp and other creatures is a material that can touch the human world in unique and beneficial ways: CHITIN, a powerful, natural polymer containing characteristics with the potential to alter industries, improve the environment, and change the way we live. Mari Signum produces market-ready, premium quality chitin in an environmentally conscious manner and provides companies with a technology platform and the scientific resources they require to change the world. View the Ross Group PLC Press Release.
WINNER: 2018 Green Chemistry Challenge
Mari Signum has received the prestigious 2018 Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in recognition of its unique technology that allows the sustainable isolation & extraction of the chitin polymer from crustacean shell biomass. Past winners of this annual EPA award include Merck, Amgen, Dow Chemical, Kraton Performance Polymers, Codexis, BASF, Dupont, Cargill and Bayer Corporation.
Unlocking the Chitin Economy.
Inside the shells of shrimp and other creatures is a material that can touch the human world in unique and beneficial ways: CHITIN, a powerful, natural polymer containing characteristics with the potential to alter industries, improve the environment, and change the way we live. Mari Signum produces market-ready, premium quality chitin in an environmentally conscious manner and provides companies with a technology platform and the scientific resources they require to change the world. View the Ross Group PLC Press Release.
WINNER: 2018 Green Chemistry Challenge
Mari Signum has received the prestigious 2018 Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in recognition of its unique technology that allows the sustainable isolation & extraction of the chitin polymer from crustacean shell biomass. Past winners of this annual EPA award include Merck, Amgen, Dow Chemical, Kraton Performance Polymers, Codexis, BASF, Dupont, Cargill and Bayer Corporation.
Broad market appeal
With its unique properties, there are many existing markets chitin can change and new markets that it can create. Chitin can replace traditional petrochemical plastics and has the potential to transform the filtration, agriculture, animal feed, cosmetics, packaging, textile and medical industries.
AGRICULTURE
Medical
Plastics
Animal Feeds
Filtration
Packaging
Textiles
Cosmetics
Broad market appeal
With its unique properties, there are many existing markets chitin can change and new markets that it can create. Chitin can replace traditional petrochemical plastics and has the potential to transform the filtration, agriculture, animal feed, cosmetics, packaging, textile and medical industries.
AGRICULTURE
Plastics
Filtration
Textiles
Medical
Animal Feeds
Packaging
Cosmetics
A platform for new products.
The Mari Signum Technology Products Platform, backed by decades of advanced materials research, is helping our company and our partners engineer new uses for premium chitin. We hold intellectual property that our customers require to create new markets and disrupt industries using chitin. Mari Signum is also positioned to drive innovation in the area of fiber production through electrospinning and 3-D printing of chitin-based products.
Made with Green Chemistry.
Outdated methods of extracting chitin from exoskeletons use highly toxic chemicals and unsustainable, Earth-damaging processes. Not ours: Green Chemistry elegantly extracts chitin molecules from shrimp shells with a pure, non-toxic solvent in a way that doesn’t hurt our planet.
Consciously sourced shells.
Our chitin is derived from shrimp exoskeletons sourced from local shrimp processors, from whom we collect and repurpose shells that would otherwise be dumped into landfills. In addition, we are developing an environmentally sustainable aquaculture farm that will allow us to renewably and organically source chitin in the massive volumes required to serve our customers’ needs.
A platform for new products.
The Mari Signum Technology Products Platform, backed by decades of advanced materials research, is helping our company and our partners engineer new uses for premium chitin. We hold intellectual property that our customers require to create new markets and disrupt industries using chitin. Mari Signum is also positioned to drive innovation in the area of fiber production through electrospinning and 3-D printing of chitin-based products.
Made with Green Chemistry.
Outdated methods of extracting chitin from exoskeletons use highly toxic chemicals and unsustainable, Earth-damaging processes. Not ours: Green Chemistry elegantly extracts chitin molecules from shrimp shells with a pure, non-toxic solvent in a way that doesn’t hurt our planet.
Consciously sourced shells.
Our chitin is derived from shrimp exoskeletons sourced from local shrimp processors, from whom we collect and repurpose shells that would otherwise be dumped into landfills. In addition, we are developing an environmentally sustainable aquaculture farm that will allow us to renewably and organically source chitin in the massive volumes required to serve our customers’ needs.