The rise of PFAS removal technologies

Our second blog of the series explored the current landscape of PFAS remediation technologies, from advanced analytical methods to the next generation of destruction pathways. This final article in our 3‑part series highlights some of the most exciting innovations happening today.

Innovations in measurement technologies

• FredSense (Canada): Develops portable, field-based PFAS sensing kits, enabling rapid on-site detection without full laboratory turnaround times. 

• Grapheal (France): Designs biosensors and real-time diagnostics, targeting ultra-trace PFAS detection for continuous monitoring in water networks and industrial sites.

Innovation in separation and capture technologies

• Puraffinity (UK): Designs advanced engineered adsorbents targeting short-chain and emerging PFAS with high selectivity and capacity. 

• AqueoUS Vets (USA): Known for full-scale GAC and ion-exchange PFAS treatment systems, particularly for drinking water utilities. 

• Gradiant (USA): Offers reverse osmosis/​brine concentration and advanced oxidation solutions, particularly for industrial and membrane-retentate waste. 

• Enpure (UK): Engineering consultancy implementing PFAS treatment trains for UK utilities, integrating ion exchange, carbon, membranes and monitoring systems. 

• FluoRok (UK): Focuses on PFAS recovery and recycling, aiming to turn captured PFAS into reusable fluorinated feedstock rather than waste.

Innovations in destruction and removal technologies

• Aquagga (USA): Specialises in hydrothermal alkaline destruction, aiming to fully mineralise PFAS in concentrated waste streams, particularly from firefighting foam remediation. 

• Axine Water Technologies (USA): Offers electrochemical oxidation systems designed for on-site PFAS destruction in industrial wastewater. 

• Oxyle (Sweden): Uses foam fractionation to concentrate PFAS, followed by innovative photochemical degradation to eliminate them. 

• Ovivo (USA) and Evocra (Australia): Provides modular PFAS treatment systems, combining separation techniques with destruction or off-site waste transfer options. 

• Daphne Water Solutions (UK) uses water fleas to remove persistent chemicals from water. 

• Bioglobe (Cyprus): Uses a novel enzymatic approach to PFAS destruction. 

• Onvector (USA): Uses a plasma vortex reactor to create highly charged particles to break down PFAS. 

• Enspired Solutions (USA): Uses UV-catalysed reductive defluorination to disassemble PFA molecules. 
• Arvia Technology (UK): Provides advanced electrochemical oxidation-based PFAS destruction solutions for wastewater.

How CPI can help

At CPI, we work with innovators across the full PFAS value chain and support technologies as they progress from early detection through to separation, capture, destruction and commercial deployment. This begins with advanced detection capability, where we develop novel sensor materials, support device design and prototyping, and provide comprehensive analytical testing using techniques such as LC-MS and GC-MS. 

Building on this, we help organisations optimise separation and capture processes by developing engineered adsorption materials and refining technologies such as membrane filtration, granular activated carbon, ion exchange and foam fractionation. 

Alongside separation, we play a key role in advancing emerging PFAS destruction routes. Our teams support the development of plasma, photochemical, sonolysis and mechanochemical approaches, and we offer specialist expertise in electrochemical oxidation through electrode materials development and scale up to hundreds of kilograms, drawing on techniques such as chemical vapour deposition and lithography. 

To ensure these technologies can transition effectively into real-world applications, we also provide robust commercial viability assessments, including techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment and process development support. 

Together, these capabilities form an end-to-end commercialisation pathway that helps innovators accelerate the development, scale-up and deployment of PFAS solutions. By integrating scientific, engineering and commercial insight, we ensure that promising ideas can move to market more quickly, more efficiently and with greater confidence. 

To learn more about how to replace PFAS in your products and processes, see our guide.

How collective action is paving the way to PFAS-free water

PFAS removal is not a single-technology challenge but a system-wide effort that requires precise detection, effective separation and reliable destruction, all verified through advanced analytics and aligned with fast-evolving regulatory expectations. 

Across the UK and Europe, success will depend on technologies capable of measuring both known and unknown PFAS, removing contaminants from diverse water and industrial sources, and fully breaking down concentrated waste streams. At the same time, regulatory and consumer pressure, environmental urgency and rapid scientific progress are driving a wave of innovation, with organisations across the sector laying the groundwork for a future in which PFAS pollution can be accurately monitored, effectively removed and ultimately eliminated. 

Realising this vision will require sustained collaboration between innovators, regulators and industry, but together, these efforts are bringing PFAS-free water closer to reality. 

You can read the first two parts of this series here: