Oxford, UK, 10 April 2026: FluoRok is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a £1.5M grant provided by the UK government, as part of the UK Government’s £4 billion DRIVE35 programme, delivered by the Department for Business and Trade in partnership with the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC) and Innovate UK. FluoRok will utilise this additional funding to enhance the planned demonstrator unit and update technical assessments to accelerate commercialisation of our novel HF-free process for producing lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF₆), a critical material in the lithium-ion battery supply chain. This project will support UK battery and automotive manufacturers by reducing supply chain risk, lowering production costs, and improving sustainability.

Gabriele Pupo, FluoRok’s CEO said, “Securing this £1.5M DRIVE35 award is a major vote of confidence in FluoRok’s HF-free technology and its potential to reshape how critical battery chemicals are made. This funding will accelerate the development of commercial scale production – delivering a safer, lower cost and lower carbon supply of electrolyte salt for the UK battery and automotive industries.”

FluoRok is transforming the production of essential fluorochemicals with the first HF-free process, enabling safer, more energy-efficient and cost-effective manufacturing for critical industries including batteries, agriculture and medicine.

Our technology offers a safe, sustainable, HF-free route to LiPF₆, delivering significantly lower CO₂ emissions, reduced plant CapEx, and lower operating costs compared with incumbent methods. Our proprietary process also supports circularity and improved environmental performance.

We are rapidly scaling our operations – backed by public and private investment- where process improvement and enhancement of our key demonstrator are fundamental pillars in scaling our technology toward commercial readiness, working with partners across the battery supply chain to enable cleaner, more resilient production of this critical material.

The DRIVE35 programme is part of the UK Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan, which outlines its commitment to a zero-emission future, with an unprecedented £4 billion of grant funding available to 2035 for automotive R&D, scale-up, and transformation.