MarinaTex
About us
MarinaTex began with a simple but urgent belief: we can and we must rethink the way materials are used in everyday life.
For our founder, Lucy Hughes, that realisation didn’t come from theory. It came from the ocean. Seeing the contrast between thriving marine environments and those choked by pollution made one thing impossible to ignore: materials designed for moments are lasting for centuries. Nature doesn’t work like that. It creates things with purpose, designed to perform, then safely return.
That shift in perspective became the foundation of everything that followed.
Waste is a resource.
Seafood processing generates millions of tonnes of byproduct rich in natural polymers, materials already designed by evolution to bind, protect, and structure. We build on that to create a new class of materials that are plastic free, high performing, and designed to break down safely.
From the start, we designed for integration. Our coatings and films work within existing manufacturing processes across packaging and agriculture, allowing businesses to replace problematic plastics without disrupting the systems around them.
As MarinaTex evolved, so did the scientific platform behind it. Craig Sterling joined as Co-Founder and CEO, bringing decades of experience commercialising materials science and life sciences businesses, along with an expanded scientific and product development team. Together, Lucy and Craig helped drive the development of MarinaTex’s technologies from early breakthrough concepts toward scalable, real-world applications, combining deep material innovation with scientific development, commercial discipline, and product strategy.
Today, we’re working with industry partners to bring these materials into everyday use. Our focus is performance, scalability, and real-world impact, not future potential, but solutions that work now.
We believe the future of materials is circular by design. By harnessing natural polymers, we are turning waste into value. The future of materials is circular, and it starts here.
