Oxford, United Kingdom, 29 May 2025 – FluoRok, a pioneering innovator in advanced fluorination technologies, is pleased to announce a significant milestone in its development: the opening of a new dedicated pilot production unit at ARC Oxford Business Park.
This expansion, completed earlier this year, marks a critical step in FluoRok’s journey from laboratory research to commercial application. The new facility includes pilot-scale production capabilities and a state-of-the-art analytical suite specifically designed for battery electrolyte materials. This infrastructure provides the foundation for future commercial-scale manufacturing of FluoRok’s proprietary fluorination technology.
“Our mission at FluoRok is to enable access to essential fluorochemicals in a safer, more sustainable, cost-effective, and localised manner,” said FluoRok founder and CEO, Dr Gabriele Pupo. “This new facility is more than an operational upgrade—it is a key enabler of our industrialisation and scaling strategy and a clear signal of our commitment to delivering real-world impact through scientific innovation.”
This milestone underscores FluoRok’s continued focus on scaling its breakthrough technologies responsibly and efficiently. The company extends its sincere thanks to its dedicated team, partners, investors and supporters who have contributed to making this achievement possible.
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About FluoRok: FluoRok is a deep-tech start-up company based in Oxford, UK and focused on fluorochemical manufacturing and licensing. It develops novel and transformational technologies to access fluorochemicals in an efficient, safe, lower cost and sustainable way and unlock localised production. Spun-out of the University of Oxford in 2022, FluoRok’s team has decades of cumulative experience in fluorination chemistry, and extensive manufacturing, commercial and business development expertise.
FluoRok’s proprietary technology directly employs fluorinated waste or naturally occurring fluorite mineral as raw material, to access high value fluorochemicals that are key to the world’s energy transition, our global food supply, and our health. Its innovative solution reduces energy requirements, lowers CO2 emissions, enables reshoring of manufacturing due to intrinsic process safety and introduces for the first time the circular economy in fluorochemical production. Traditional barriers to entry such as high capital expenditure, regulatory challenges, and complex controls of hazardous operations, are circumvented, thus allowing for easy adoption and rapid scale-up of the technology.
Its market focus is Li-ion battery electrolyte salts and agrochemicals.
FluoRok is backed by an outstanding investor syndicate including Oxford Science Enterprises, BGF, Green Generation Fund, Volta Energy Technologies, Excellis and the University of Oxford.
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Gabriele Pupo / Clare Simpson
info@fluorok.com