Tidal Vision Products

Tidal Vision Products

Tidal Vision Products was founded in 2015 by Craig Kasberg, a commercial fisherman who spent years discarding millions of pounds of crab shells before engineering a way to convert them into chitosan, a biopolymer with industrial applications in water treatment, textile manufacturing, and agriculture. The company emerged from Bellingham, Washington, with a thesis that shellfish waste could replace petrochemical-based chemistries at scale. The firm operates as an industrial biotechnology manufacturer, deploying proprietary extraction technology to produce chitosan at price points that compete directly with synthetic polymers. Its deployment covers three verticals: Tidal Clear for stormwater and industrial wastewater treatment, Tidal Tex for antimicrobial textile finishes, and Tidal Grow for crop yield enhancement. Publicly disclosed customers include municipal water districts, mining operations, and textile mills. The geographic footprint spans North America, with production facilities on the West Coast and distribution agreements extending into Southeast Asia and Europe. Kasberg has scaled the company through multiple venture rounds, attracting both impact investors and strategic industrials. In 2022, the firm closed a $16 million Series B led by Milliken & Company, signaling that a major synthetic polymer producer saw defensible demand for bio-based alternatives. Tidal Vision operates an adjacent structure in Cascade Bioproducts, its manufacturing arm, which handles raw material processing from fisheries across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The structural differentiator is sourcing: Tidal Vision is the only commercial-scale chitosan producer backward-integrated into fishery supply chains. It does not buy chitosan on the spot market and reprocess it; it owns the extraction chemistry from catch to finished product, giving it a cost structure no chemical distributor can replicate without owning a fleet relationship.