New shellfish butter won’t be left on the shelf

An innovative Irish seafood company is poised to begin exporting its groundbreaking new shellfish butter product to the Middle East.

And there are hopes that the first butter of its kind in the world, developed by Cork-based iASC, the Irish Atlantic Seafood Company, could take off after completing trials with a company which supplies luxury in-flight meals to British Airways and Lufthansa — their butter could become a key filling ingredient in the airlines’ crab crayfish ravioli dish.

Managing director of iASC, Colin Ross, who founded the firm with his Prestige Catering business partner, chef James Grimes, said they were delighted with the success of the butter, but have much bigger plans for the future.