Scottish scientists Dr. David Hepworth and Dr. Eric Whale invented Curran®, an innovative additive for coatings. Curran® was developed with a special, patented process by Scottish company CelluComp Ltd. The process takes waste vegetable material and turns it into a high-performance cellulose material with unique characteristics.
The material is composed of cellulose, organized into a unique physical form that imparts properties that are different from other types of cellulose. The material has many of the characteristics of a nanomaterial but without the presence of free nanofibers. The company’s philosophy is to find alternative sources of raw materials from the standard petrochemical base that is currently used and to process these green materials by high-tech but low-energy methods, creating innovative new additives that will be high performance and cost effective.