525 Solutions

There is increasing demand for high purity chitin to be used for production of a range of finished products. The main reason for the current limited approaches being taken to utilize chitin is the difficulty in processing this material and the high energy demand needed for its extraction from the shellfish waste. The current industrial extraction o... f chitin from crustacean shell is over one hundred years old, heavily polluting and allows for little control over the final product's physical characteristics. The currently used process degrades the chitin structure, and severely changes its properties resulting in limited chitin potential applications and, thus, its market value. In 525's process, chitin-containing shells get readily dissolved in a special solvent, which allows for isolation of chitin under relatively mild conditions, thereby enabling the production of high purity/high molecular weight chitin that is not possible to obtain using the current practice. 525's process also requires less chemical and energy input, yielding high purity, reliable, quality controlled chitin. Among competing chitin and chitin products on the market, 525's chitin has: Highest degree of chemical purity, the complete absence of biological and protein impurities No similar offering, no chitin production facility in the U.S. Our technology relates to the special way of processing of bio-polymers and incorporation of these bio-polymers into fibers and fabrics of both synthetic and natural origin (e.g. polyesters, polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, spandex, orlon, acrylics, Kevlar, cotton, linen, silk and wool), thus the desirable properties of the bio-polymer can be incorporated into the fibers or fabrics. Today there are many fabrics in use for a wide variety of purposes, based on natural and synthetic fibers. In many applications it is desirable for the fabrics or fibers to have properties that are not inherent to the basic fiber, such as being anti-microbial or promoting the healing of wounds. Current methods (e.g. addition ...Read More