Cleaning & Maintenance

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About GNC Marine

Who We Are

GNC Marine aims and are commitment to providing the marine and offshore industries with high-performance, sustainable cleaning and maintenance solutions.
Established in 2016 in Derby, UK, we’ve built a reputation for excellence based on innovative product formulation and a deep understanding of industry challenges.

As of 2024, GNC Marine has adopted a global operational structure. GNC Marine Global, based in Denmark, handles all client support, ensuring a seamless experience for our customers worldwide. Production and REACH compliance remain in the UK, alongside company ownership, guaranteeing the quality and expertise you’ve come to expect from GNC Marine.

We are committed to sustainable solutions that don’t compromise on performance. Our team formulates our own cleaning and maintenance products, and collaborates with leading scientific partners. This collaborative approach allows us to integrate the latest advancements in bioscience and chemistry, ensuring our products effectively address the evolving cleaning and waste treatment needs of the marine industry. Our staff and partners boast over 25 years of experience in the chemical, biological, and cleaning equipment sectors. We have a proven track record of successful collaboration with key technology providers, distributors, and OEMs
within the industry. This extensive network allows us to deliver our products to all major international ports, ensuring you have the solutions you need, exactly when you need them.

With a commitment to sustainability, cutting-edge science, and a global support network, GNC Marine offers a comprehensive range of solutions designed to bring
exceptional value to our customers. We look forward to partnering with you to achieve optimal performance across your marine operations

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Priceless Experience

Our staff and partners each have more than 25yrs experience in either chemical, biological, biocidal products, cleaning equipment, service provision and global logistics.

Custom Packages

We design, manufacture and supply specialized cleaning, maintenance and biosecurity products with proven performance to the marine and offshore industries.

People-Oriented

We have a history of working in partnership with the industry’s key technology providers, distributors and OEM’s. We can deliver products to you in all the key international ports

What We Do

We manufacture and distribute our own ranges of biological and chemical products. Our marine ranges comprise dilutable concentrates to fully formulated, ready-to-use products.

Our clients cover all industry sectors from distributors, trading, procurement and facilities management companies, chandlers and both large and small shipping companies.

Our Team has wealth of experience in real world marine applications, and we understand the cleaning and maintenance challenges the industry faces and design our solutions accordingly.

The GNC team has wealth of experience from real world marine applications, and we understand the cleaning, maintenance challenges the industry faces and design our solutions accordingly.

How We Do It

Expertise and knowhow

Expertise and knowledge capital together with strategic partnerships are key to our business. We have in-house expertise in the industry, supported by an extensive network of partners and associates allowing us to have a global reach.

Strategic Partnerships

We access a broad range of resources and expertise in specialized areas that enables us to exploit new developments in whole cell bioscience and modern chemistry. We also outsource many key functions such as R&D, raw materials sourcing, manufacturing and distribution. This reduces costs, reducing development lead times, reduces product delivery time and ultimately offers a competitive advantage to our clients.

Microbiology

Our accumulated knowledge and years of practical experience of industrial microbiology and the microbial products market enables us to recognise that despite the fact that these products have played a role in the marine industry for many years, very little change or implementation of the latest developments has taken place.

Not all the microorganisms used in marine bio-products are the same, nor do what they were proven to do in a laboratory, and in many cases do nothing at all. We know how to source the best available strains that are suited to the application and deliver a solution or product to make them work.

Fermentation

We source our micro-organisms only from the best industrial fermentation companies. New fermentation and preservation techniques are being developed to enable alternative high performance bacteria to be incorporated into the next generation of microbial products. GNC Marine is at the forefront of these developments, working closely with our SSF-based fermentation partner.

Formulation

A detailed understanding of both microbial physiology and biochemistry coupled to complimentary modern chemistry is required to get the best ship-board performance from a cleaning and maintenance product. GNC Marine can apply its knowledge of liquid, powder, solids product formulation to manufacture a broad range of high performance products in stable form for worldwide distribution and to meet appropriate regulatory requirements.

Chemistry

Not all environmental clean-up applications require inclusion of micro-organisms. Smart, modern chemistry based on the latest developments in raw materials are reaching the market that with careful formulation and combined with the correct application equipment are all that is required to achieve satisfactory low cost results. Many emerging raw materials are ‘bio-based’ giving excellent functional performance with equally excellent environmental and health and safety characteristics. We use bio-based as well as the best conventional chemistries to formulate our chemical product ranges.

When designing our microbial products, we test compatibility of new raw materials with our bacteria to ensure they are not negatively impacted by the formulation.

Packaging

Conventional packaging offers the most cost effective and robust means for us to distribute our products globally. Wherever possible we re-furbish and re-use large pack containers. We use only recyclable plastics and card, and compostable packaging films. We do not use any packaging materials that a vessel or waste handler does not already handle.

Manufacturing and Distribution

All of our blending partners are ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified. Our packaging partner is GMP certified. We manufacture at four locations in the UK as well as in Poland and Canada. Our products are stocked by our global trading partner.