Hard shell

Iqbal Survé has appeared more than 350 times in his own newspapers and in May 2017 was on the cover of Fast Company magazine, which he published in SA. In the extensive article about his many “savvy investments”, he said that his company, Premier Fishing, was looking at using the compound chitin, found in lobster shells, “to create things like plasters and wound therapeutic products, seeing as it is a very good binder”.