#tide ocean material

We are exporting Swiss know-how in plastics recycling to countries with big issues handling ocean plastic. We pay local coastal communities for collecting plastics, which is then sorted, washed and prepared for our multiple-times awarded upcycling process. We give waste a value, create social and environmental impact and in the end quality raw materials, which can be used for long-lasting products. We also support infrastructure and knowledge transfer to the affected islands and coastlines.

Switzerland

About Us
The founding team of Tide Ocean SA brings together complementary expertise from industry, materials science, sustainability, and international business development, united by a shared ambition to make circular plastics scalable, credible, and economically viable.
Thomas Schori, Co-Founder and CEO, has a background in industrial entrepreneurship and corporate leadership. Besides founding Tide Ocean, he owns a family business supplying the watch industry, with factories in China, Thailand and Myanmar. He combines knowledge of technology, management, with a strong focus on operations, scaling industrial processes, and strategic partnerships. As CEO, he is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, industrial scaling, and international expansion.
Marc Krebs, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, brings extensive experience in branding, business development, and sustainability-driven partnerships. He leads Tide Ocean’s commercial strategy, brand positioning, and collaborations with international consumer and industrial brands, translating environmental impact into market-relevant value propositions.
The founding team is complemented by experts in polymer engineering, quality assurance, impact measurement, and global supply chains, ensuring that Tide Ocean’s technology meets both industrial performance requirements and the highest standards of environmental and social credibility.

Problem we are solving
Plastic pollution in coastal regions is one of the most visible and damaging environmental challenges of our time. Millions of tons of plastic waste leak into the ocean every year, largely because waste management systems in many coastal areas are insufficient or non-existent. Once plastic reaches the ocean, it degrades into microplastics, harming marine ecosystems, entering the food chain, and becoming nearly impossible to recover.
At the same time, the plastics industry faces a second, structural problem: a lack of trust and quality in recycled materials. Many recycled plastics suffer from inconsistent quality, limited traceability, and questionable sustainability claims. This has led to widespread greenwashing, low market acceptance, and hesitation from industrial buyers—especially in performance-critical applications.
Our technology addresses both problems at their root:
the uncontrolled leakage of plastic waste into the ocean, and
the absence of transparent, high-quality, and verifiable recycled plastic materials.
By combining structured collection of ocean-bound plastic, industrial-grade recycling processes, and digital traceability, we turn plastic waste from a global environmental liability into a trusted, high-value raw material for circular applications. We are track the material from source to customer, on a digital app, complying with future regulations about circularity and are even able to add a nano-tracer, guaranteeing the origin of our material. This is a strong proof against greenwashing and a great quality control of the whole supply chain

Sustainable Impact on Blue Ecconomy
We are able to process 5 types of ocean-bound plastics and turn them into high quality raw materials equal to the quality of virgin plastics. We combine plastics processing knowledge with impact, collaborate across the oceans, establishing waste management infrastructure where they are needed the most. Completely traceable, our material complies with future EU regulations about circularity. Our material is used in 150 products, brands such as Hugo Boss, Maurice Lacroix, Aldi Süd and many more. They all see the added value relying on our target- and impact oriented compounding, transforming ocean-bound plastic waste into a valuable new material for sustainable products. The material performs as well as virgin plastic.

Financial Needs3-6 Million Euro.