Oceanic-Creations AB was a company based in

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, founded in 1986 around the so-called Oceanic-Creations Composite Technology (OCCT), a special process for producing a

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based construction material. The company had a production plant in

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. Media reported about a floating, pyramid shaped ''Hotel Maya'' being constructed there for deployment in

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, Mexico. The OCCT process was originally developed for navy

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s (including the Visby class corvette) at

Kockums Saab Kockums AB is a shipyard headquartered in Malmö, Sweden, owned by the Swedish defence company Saab AB. Saab Kockums AB is further operational in Muskö, Docksta, and Karlskrona. While having a history of civil vessel construction, Kocku ...

shipyards in

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, Sweden, and treated as a military secret. After the innovation was declassified in 2002, Oceanic-Creations AB started to explore other markets. The OCCT process is not patented, but kept as a trade secret on a 20-year license from

. The company went bankrupt in 2011.

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Corporate website
article in

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Science & Space on February 16, 2007
Bygger flytende pyramidehotell
article (with video) published on March 9, 2007, in ''

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'', Norway's engineering weekly {{Sweden-company-stub Manufacturing companies of Sweden Economy of Varna, Bulgaria