Working with us
These are the ways we work, whatever the use. From trying the treatment on a single part to full joint research, we work out with you how to test it where it will be used.
We take enquiries on the contact page about any use — keeping things off, taking them off, helping them take hold, ocean data or beyond the sea — about processing, licensing, joint research and other ways of working, and from investors and the press. You do not need to have settled on a material or a place yet. If you have photos, please send them by email once we have replied.
From trying a surface treatment on your material (metal, ceramic or polymer) to designing how it would be used, we work it out with you. We also take enquiries about helping things take hold, such as getting a particular microbe to settle, and help sort out problems at sea that have not yet been solved. The first consultation is free.
Processing, licensing, selling treated materials and the other business models we are considering.
We are considering a model with no factory of our own, in which our engineers bring the equipment to you and treat the parts you use. We start with parts about the size of a football, which fit our current equipment. Either we or a partner we have approved would carry out the work and be responsible for it.
We also welcome enquiries from anyone who would like to start by trying it on a part.
Talk to us about “Processing and part testing”
We protect our know-how in the treatment conditions (the recipe) as a trade secret, and are considering licensing the right to treat with our recipe, field by field and region by region. The recipe and the intellectual property themselves are not handed over.
As licensees, we have in mind the manufacturers and contractors who handle mass production and installation.
Talk to us about “Technology licensing”
We are considering a model in which equipment makers build and run the machines that treat rice husks, under a licence based on the volume treated.
Talk to us about “Licensing the rice husk treatment equipment”
We are considering selling treated materials for restoring seagrass beds, such as treated rope, to fishing cooperatives, local governments and marine civil engineering firms.
Talk to us about “Treated materials for restoring seagrass beds”
As a secondary option, we are also considering turning the carbon taken up by restored seagrass beds into credits.
Talk to us about “Blue carbon credits”The joint research we have carried out with a university and companies, and the research centre we take part in.
We design and run sea trials together with universities, research institutes, companies and local governments.
In joint research under the Town & Gown initiative of Kure City and Hiroshima University (October 2025 to August 2026), four parties — Hiroshima University, Marine Craft Kazenoko, Inet and our company — researched systems that support oyster raft management and safe navigation.
Since October 2025, we have taken part in Hiroshima University’s JST COI-NEXT centre for a marine cultural city built on ocean remote-sensing technology.
We take part as one of its consortium companies.
Field site and partners
Our development base is Marine Craft Kazenoko’s 2nd factory on Kurahashi Island. In the sea right in front of it, we can run trials on the seabed, in a natural eelgrass bed, on a sandy beach and at a pier, watching them with an underwater camera. Our joint research and the organizations we work with and receive support from are on this page too.
See the Field site and partners pageNot sure which way of working fits? That’s fine. Talk to us first.
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