This Web site contains information about the novel, vertically integrated industry development Project EVVEN C.A. on Margarita Island, Venezuela.  An innovative development concept with an unusual approach of how to grow shrimp in a pioneering, creative and resourceful manner producing organic fertilizer and chitin without harmful side effects to nature.

Highly mineralised ("salty") fertilizer is ideal for replenishing mineral-poor soils. Fertilizer supplies essential nutrients to the plants for adequate growth and maintenance of plant functions. If you want to have a quality harvest then some fertilizer is key. Chitin is a high molecular weight polymer made of the repeating sugar N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), it is extracted from shrimp shells. . 

The long-term goal of EVVEN C.A. is to use sales of shrimp, fertilizer and chitin to finance the development of a high-tech production of consumer products made from chitin. Chitin/Chitosan is a basic building block of living tissues and the best source is crustacean shells such as shrimp. Future industries will be based off Chitin/Chitosan products which are derived from shrimp shells, giving EVVEN unlimited future growth potential in the years to come. This novel and innovative industry uses all other natural compounds extracted from crustacean shells including Astaxanthin and Glucosamine. These shells are about 45% chitin, yielding a rich source of this important raw material. Chitin is a natural polymer with an increasing number of creative applications. Chitin, and its derivative chitosan, are becoming extremely important in such unusual varied fields as chelation of heavy metals, cosmetics, food colouring, animal feed additives, human nutritional supplements, medical sutures, and pharmaceuticals. In medicine and medical industry chitosan is used for: making medicinal preparations of prolonged effect (the medicine is released from as long as several hours to three days); production of stitch material which is homo-compatible, biodegradable and highly stable in wet condition; production of burn and wound healing dressings, blood rehabilitating sponges; production of contact lenses in ophthalmology; making artificial leather, films (pellicles?) and membranes for analysis, apparatus for artificial blood circulation, artificial kidneys; obtaining preparations substituting heparine; obtaining immuno-stimulating preparations; highly effective anticancer preparations among other uses.