Replace single-use EPS packaging in the seafood supply chain

 
 

An end-to-end system for seafood processors

  • Reduce single use fish boxes with sustainable, ocean-friendly alternative

  • Reduce micro plastic contamination of our oceans and marine food chain

  • Reduce seafood damage and financial losses during transit from harvest to further processing

  • Implement FishCap with minimal business disruption at harvest and further processing

 

Who are you?

FishCap Capsules

FishCap boxes store and transport fish and seafood between harvest and further processing. 

Each is a multi-use replacement for the EPS (polystyrene / styrofoam) fish box which can be used 50 times, vastly reducing lifecycle costs. FishCaps are made from high-performance thermal resin to preserve the temperature integrity of seafood during transfer ensuring safe food handling. 

Designed in collaboration with the world's largest food retailer, with exhaustive research and development and extensive in-field testing. FishCap passes durability, robustness and hygiene tests in both intercontinental and domestic seafood supply chains. 

FishCap is food-approved by FDA, EFSA and the UK-Food Standards Agency.

A range of box shapes and volumes optimise efficiency and cost of both forward-logistics and reverse-logistics. 

FishCaps are 100% recyclable, with second life applications making them an environmentally friendly alternative to industry standard single-use fish boxes.  Using FishCaps you can demonstrate CO2 emissions reduction in your business. 

The FishCap System

FishCap provides an end-to-end system for handling, storage and transfer of seafood

  1. FishCap capsules are supplied to a seafood harvest facility just-in-time for packing.

  2. Chilled whole fish or fillets are packed into FishCaps.

  3. Industry standard conveying transfers the FishCaps for manual or automated palletising. Each locks securely when cross-stacked.

  4. Dispatched to further processing in-country or via intercontinental road, air or sea freight.

  5. After arrival at a further processing facility, FishCaps can be stored in a chiller or transferred directly to a processing line.

  6. Once emptied, FishCaps are moved to an on-site or off-site cleaning facility where they are washed, sanitised and dried prior to palletising for reverse logistics and reuse.

At the end of their use life, FishCaps are 100% recyclable.

20,000 FishCaps eliminate 1 million single-use fish boxes.

 

FishCap dimensions and product range

Ask us for pallet configurations - to suit your needs.

 

How it works

 
 
 

Supermarket Seafood

Consumer ‘plastic panic’ is ramping up. Consumers hold food retailers accountable for the entire supply chain, from food quality to safety, sustainability to environmental protection. Are you acting to reduce ocean plastic pollution? 

FishCap is the answer. Working with your seafood producers and further processors, we replace polystyrene / styrofoam boxes with reusable FishCap boxes. Your seafood supply chain can eliminate single use packaging with an end-to-end system designed to improve environmental outcomes.  

Ask us how FishCap can meet your sustainability objectives.

Seafood Producer / Harvester

You invest 2-3 years growing high quality fish. But post-harvest transportation can massively devalue your product. Supermarkets are moving towards eliminating single-use packaging. You use EPS (polystyrene / styrofoam) which will be eliminated in future CSR objectives. And so you need low complexity and minimal cost to move away from EPS.

Our FishCap boxes can be used ≈ 50 times, replacing EPS with a fully recyclable alternative packaging to match your hygiene, quality and temperature specifications. 

With superior durability, robustness and a lower carbon footprint, FishCap is specifically designed to fit your existing handling infrastructure. This eliminates the need to change any of your seafood processes (harvesting, pack-off, palletisation, dispatch). You will reduce single use packaging waste in transfers from harvest to further processing as well as costly damages from EPS box breakages. 

Ask us about starting a proof of concept.

Seafood Processors

You need to receive quality raw material within temperature and hygiene specification and with minimal negative impacts on the environment. Upstream and downstream food chain changes are already happening driven by consumer concern for marine plastic pollution. You can proactively drive the change and control the switchover.

The FishCap system is an environmentally responsible packaging solution designed to fit your existing infrastructure and processes. FishCap is significantly more robust than EPS (polystyrene / styrofoam) fish boxes. Unlike EPS, they don’t squeak, flake or crumble into micro plastics causing pollution in your processing rooms, drainage systems or the marine environment. 

FishCap was developed for seafood transfer between harvest and further processing. Using FishCap boxes, your whole fish or fillets arrive in pristine condition prior to conversion to retail cutting and packing. Reduce EPS single-use packaging waste and pollution in your processing factory and lead the industry in sustainable innovation.

Ask us about improved sustainability and innovation for your supply chain.