About

MarinaTex was created as a final year project by Lucy Hughes at The University of Sussex. Studying Product Design, Lucy developed an interest in utilising waste products and looking to nature for inspiration.  

Through a university tutor, Lucy got in contact with MCB Seafoods, a fish processing plant and wholesaler in Newhaven. A tour of the plant identified various waste streams to work with including offal, blood, crustacean & shellfish exoskeletons and fish skins & scales. After researching the different waste streams it became apparent that the fish skins and scales had the most potential locked up in them due to their flexibility and strength enabling proteins.

It took over 100 different experiments to refine the material and process.