Cantex Corporation

It will be an honor to be part of MIT solve team. I will procure all needful machinery required for my project.

I am a Textile Engineer by profession with Masters in Project Management and Business Administration. I have multiple experience both in private and public sector organisations. Currently I am very much enthusiastic about  entrepreneurship project. 

Our team consist of 

1. Dr Muhammad Saqib Siddique PhD In Nanotextiles (Manager Technical)

2. Dr Shahrukh Shahbaz PhD in Textile Composites ( Assistant Manager Procurement and Technical)

3. Muhammad Ubaid Textile Engineer with Masters in Project Management and Business Administration (General Manager)

4. Asghar Khan Charted Accountant (Manager Sales and Finance)

Part Timer 

Shaukat Recipe Maker 01 

Support Staff (Skilled and Unskilled Labor )  06 

Plastic pollution is wreaking havoc on our planet, and single-use plastic bags are one of the most significant contributors. Alone Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency reveals that 55 billion tones of plastics are used in country and expected to rise by 15 percent yearly.

Nowadays, by rapid economic development and population growth the demand for paper also increased in the world. More demand on paper needs more harvesting of woody materials. Unsustainable harvesting of wood can cause deforestation, climate change, etc

Cantex is an initiative inspired from the core concept of cradle to cradle and circular economy waging a war against single use plastic by Using sugarcane as the main raw material. The startup proposed  manufacturing of organic non-centrifugal sugar (Gur) and bagasse as by-product which will be utilized to make pulp and convert it into  packaging. The proposed project has potential to utilize Industrial hemp, cotton waste, recycled paper and other agriculture residues as fibrous source of cellulose to create value added products.

Our purpose is to provide a solution in the war against plastic using the recyclable materials. This proposal deals with green, sustainable, recyclable and a low-cost alternative using Bagasse fibers which are abundantly available in the region

Pakistan Paper industry is completely dependent on hardwood to produce pulp. we are exploring new raw material sources such as agriculture residues( bagasse, wheat straws, rice husk), recycle paper, textile industry waste, recycle fabric and industrial hemp as fibrous source of cellulose to make cheap, biodegradable, sustainable, recyclable and compostable pulp. 

The wet-laid methodology used in paper Industry will be also adopted to fully explore the Wet-laid non-woven market potential in Pakistan. 

The extracted cellulose from alternate sources has promising future market in Textile composite materials. 

Imagine a world in which all the things we make, use, and consume provide nutrition for nature and industry—a world in which growth is good and human activity generates a delightful, restorative ecological footprint.

The proposed project is inspired from nature to nature concept. A product created by nature (sugarcane) and absorbed by nature (biodegradable plastic).We are striving for a universal cause of saving environment by using green with a green process for a green product. 

Our firm devised a mechanism to convert this trash into a value-added item. Our purpose is to provide a solution in the war against plastic using the recyclable materials which will ultimately reduce burden on wood chop-based paper industry which will indirectly reduce de-forestation.

With rapid growth of disposable food packaging industry, it has brought not only a great convenience to the people but causing severe pollution from overusing Styrofoam tableware.

With strengthening of measures for environmental protection, governments have issued regulations and restrictions on the use of Single use plastic as a raw material. Eliminating disposable foam plastic tableware is going to be a must for the future. The environmental pulp molding tableware has a great potential for replacing disposable Styrofoam tableware.