MANTA INNOVATION designs, develops and offers innovative solutions for depolluting the aquatic environment and for valorising plastic waste.

Established in 2018, MANTA INNOVATION is the integrated engineering office of the non-profit organisation The SeaCleaners. Through its activities, MANTA INNOVATION contributes to the missions of the organisation that fights on land and at sea to protect the oceans from plastic pollution.

Plastic pollution is a major ecological threat to the health of marine ecosystems, marine biodiversity, human health, the economy and the climate. It is present all over the world and is particularly visible in the least developed countries where waste management infrastructures are insufficient.

To face up to this global scourge, MANTA INNOVATION strives to ensure that innovation and technology provide curative and corrective responses that complement prevention and awareness-raising actions.

MANTA INNOVATION is committed to developing solutions that are efficient, environmentally friendly in design and use, and affordable for the greatest number.

MANTA INNOVATION is a SAS (limited liability company) in which The SeaCleaners is the sole shareholder. The profits made by the engineering office are brought back to the association, which is a non-profit organisation, to help implement its actions to fight plastic pollution.


The Manta, a development laboratory for MANTA INNOVATION

A pioneering solution to fight marine plastic pollution developed by MANTA INNOVATION, the MANTA is THE SEACLEANERS' ambassador ship that will be launched in 2025 to carry out the association's missions around the world.

This giant of the seas will be the first vessel capable of collecting, treating and valorising oceanic floating plastic macro waste en masse before it breaks up into smaller pieces and enters the marine ecosystem on a long term basis.

The MANTA will operate in areas of high waste concentration, near the estuaries of major rivers and in the coastal waters of countries that are the most impacted by plastic pollution.

As a real technological challenge, the MANTA will be powered by a combination of several renewable energy production technologies to minimize its carbon footprint.

This extraordinary vessel will also serve as a cutting-edge scientific laboratory for the observation, analysis and understanding of plastic pollution, and as an educational platform open to the public.

MANTA will operate in areas of high waste concentration, near the estuaries of major rivers and in the coastal waters of countries most impacted by plastic pollution. The vessel will be an ambassador for the cause of the fight against plastic pollution, as well as a demonstration showcase for the solutions for plastic waste collection and valorisation developed by MANTA INNOVATION, and for the solutions needed by Green Ships and Smart Ships.

Resulting from 4 years of Research and Development, the MANTA has mobilised for its design a technical consortium of industrial partners and research laboratories , including world leaders in their fields. Since 2018, 60 engineers, technicians and researchers have worked more than 45,000 hours to move from vision to realization.

Each of the vessel's "technological bricks" results from the synergy of the unique know-how of recognised world leaders. In June 2022, Bureau Veritas, a leader in ship classification, gave its “Approval In Principle” on the design of the MANTA. The shipyards consultation process for the construction of MANTA was launched in November 2022 and is ongoing.

The MANTA is a laboratory for the development activities of MANTA INNOVATION. For this flagship project, the engineering office designs customised solutions or integrates existing solutions so that they suit to the vessel's missions and specificities.

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Our technical partners to reduce water pollution

To develop its waste collection and valorisation solutions, as well as the technological bricks of the MANTA, MANTA INNOVATION benefits from the support of technical partners who are experts in their respective fields.

Naval architecture and factory integration

DEMS

DEMS is a Design office, expert partner in industrial product development of the DEMS Group.

Greenflow 2.3.5.8

GreenFlow2.3.5.8 is a design office specialised in fluid mechanics, 3D modelling, CFD and mechanical design, with a focus on naval engineering.

LMG Marin France

LMG Marin is one of the world's leading naval architecture and ship design firms.

Lumen-at-work

Entrepreneurs driven by a passion for environmental protection and lighting innovation, Lumen has been operating throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council and Europe for over 20 years.

MTB

MTB has been an expert in the recycling of complex waste for 40 years.

Ship ST

Since its creation, Ship-ST has assisted shipowners, shipyards, operators, scientists, local authorities and architects on more than 1000 maritime, river and lake projects.

VDesign

VDESIGN is an independent naval architecture firm.

BV Solutions Marine & Offshore

For the management of assets, processes, people and data of its clients in the maritime and offshore markets, BV Solutions M&O is the partner for technical consulting, asset management and insurance solutions.

Naval Academy

For more than 200 years, the Naval Academy has been training the officers and sailors that the Navy needs.

Titan Engineering

Engineering consultancy firm located in Nice specialising in the energy, automotive, aerospace, industrial and naval sectors.

Clean-up boats

EFINOR SEA CLEANER

EFINOR SEA CLEANER is specialised in the design, manufacture and marketing of multi-service pollution control vessels with a unique and innovative patented technology.

Technip Energies

Technip Energies is a leading global player in the fields of engineering and technology.

Ecodesign (ECOPLEX project)

Capgemini Engineering

World leader in engineering and R&D services.

EFINOR SEA CLEANER

EFINOR SEA CLEANER is specialised in the design, manufacture and marketing of multi-service pollution control vessels with a unique and innovative patented technology.

LS2N

Nantes Digital Sciences Laboratory.

Obeo

Obeo offers open software solutions to create and evolve complex systems.

Région Bretagne

The Regional Council of Brittany brings its financial support to the project.

Stirling Design International

Stirling Design International, a naval design and architecture agency based in Nantes specialised in the design of passenger ships.

Automated riggings

Centrale Nantes

A leading engineering school on the international scene and close to industry.

Greenflow 2.3.5.8

GreenFlow2.3.5.8 is a design office specialised in fluid mechanics, 3D modelling, CFD and mechanical design, with a focus on naval engineering.

Southern Spars

Southern Spars specialises in the design and construction of carbon fibre spars and components, as well as rigging and maintenance of rigs.

Carpeted waste collection systems

Capgemini Engineering

World leader in engineering and R&D services.

Intralox

Intralox offers complete transport solutions, including conveyor belts, equipment and services.

LMG Marin

LMG Marin is one of the world's leading naval architecture and ship design firms.

Technip Energies

Technip Energies is a leading global player in the fields of engineering and technology.

Turbé

Manufacturer of conveyors, hoppers and complete lines.

Région Bretagne

The Regional Council of Brittany brings its financial support to the project.

Net systems for waste collection

LMG Marin

LMG Marin is one of the world's leading naval architecture and ship design firms.

Padmos

Shipyard specialised in fishing boats.

Région Bretagne

The Regional Council of Brittany brings its financial support to the project.

Valorplast

Valorplast is a pioneer in the recycling of household plastic packaging.

Coopératives Maritimes Etaploises

Organisation of artisanal fisheries.

Parrot

Parrot imagines, designs and builds innovative drones to offer the best flying experience.

EPC

Group of experts in pollution control: expertise, consulting, training, intervention, maintenance...

Technorope

Lorient Maritime Cooperative

Detection and guidance systems

Capgemini Engineering

World leader in engineering and R&D services.

Echoview

The world's first software for hydroacoustic data processing.

IXBlue

Leading global provider of innovative navigation, photonics and maritime autonomy solutions for civil and defense applications.

LMG Marin France

LMG Marin is one of the world's leading naval architecture and ship design firms.

Collection systems for divers

FFESSM

French sports federation specialising in recreational and competitive underwater activities such as scuba diving, freediving, white water swimming, swimming with fins and underground diving.

Nettoyeurs SubAquatiques

Diving club based in La Teste de Buch (Bassin d'Arcachon) with ecological objectives.

Région Bretagne

The Regional Council of Brittany brings its financial support to the project.

Click & Dive

Click-Dive is a company specialised in the development and support of solutions for the marine environment and the end-of-life management of fishing gears.

Oxymax

Oxymax is a company specialised in the manufacture and supply of cut / bent / rolled / welded parts, made to order.

Mode Estime

MODE ESTIME is a social economy association and an integration workshop using textile design and sewing for the purpose of personal development and professional integration.

Atelier Hervé le Mée

Manufacture of flags, stands, POS material and other event communication media.

Energy management and optimisation

Centrale Nantes

A leading engineering school on the international scene and close to industry.

Naval Academy

For more than 200 years, the Naval Academy has been training the officers and sailors that the Navy needs.

LMG Marin

LMG Marin is one of the world's leading naval architecture and ship design firms.

MathWorks

MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software : Matlab, the language of engineers and scientists for algorithm development, and Simulink, a block diagram environment for multidomain simulation.

Renewable energy production

Centrale Nantes

A leading engineering school on the international scene and close to industry.

Naval Academy

For more than 200 years, the Naval Academy has been training the officers and sailors that the Navy needs.

émeraude solaire

Independent installer and developer of solar solutions.

Greenflow 2.3.5.8

GreenFlow2.3.5.8 is a design office specialised in fluid mechanics, 3D modelling, CFD and mechanical design, with a focus on naval engineering.

Sustainable Marine Energy Ltd

Sustainable Marine Energy is a leading developer of solutions to deliver clean, reliable and predictable tidal energy to island and coastal communities.

Recycling containers

Atelier des Recycleurs Fous

Innovation and collaboration for the benefit of the planet.

Advance

Company specialised in the industrial deployment of projects. Design, conception and industrial production.

Brangeon

The Brangeon Group is an independent family business founded in 1919, specialising in transport and logistics, as well as collection, recycling and recovery. As a local partner in all its activities, the company offers tailor-made and innovative services that contribute fully to the logic of the circular economy.

Valorplast

Valorplast is a pioneer in the recycling of household plastic packaging.

Waste-to-energy conversion unit

Air Liquide

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health.

Bluebox Energy

Since 2014, Bluebox Energy has been developing ultra-low carbon combined heat and power solutions for business parks, communities and industrial and agricultural processes.

ETIA

ETIA is a French engineering group specialised in innovation, equipment and continuous heat treatment processes.

MTB

MTB has been an expert in the recycling of complex waste for 40 years.

CEA Liten

CEA-Liten is dedicated to the energy transition. Its activities focus on several key areas: solar energy, network management, storage including batteries and hydrogen in the context of energy efficiency and the circular economy.

Chantiers de l'Atlantique

Based on the Atlantic coast, Chantiers de l'Atlantique is a world leader in the markets for highly complex ships and offshore installations.

Technip Energies

Technip Energies is a leading global player in the fields of engineering and technology.

SP Groups

SP GROUPS provides state-of-the-art engineering solutions for the fine chemicals, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors in the form of a global service, from design to facility management, including the modelling of the buildings.

Plastogaz

Plastogaz is a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, specialised in the production of natural gas using waste coming from synthetic resources.

Provademse

The PROVADEMSE technology platform has been supporting the development of environmental technologies for over 30 years.

INSA Lyon

The National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon is the leading post-A-level engineering school in France.

Scanship

Scanship offers solutions for wastewater treatment and waste-to-energy conversion.

Plastics identification

Manti Spectra

Company specialised in miniaturised spectral sensors.

Advance

Company specialised in the industrial deployment of projects. Design, conception and industrial production.

Capgemini Invent

A force for innovation, design and transformation.

Valorplast

Valorplast is a pioneer in the recycling of household plastic packaging.

Classification

Bureau Veritas

Company founded in 1828 specialised in testing, inspection and certification.