Solutions
One platform.
Wide reaching solutions.
Solutions
Essential industries depend on different fluorochemicals. All of them share the same underlying manufacturing and
supply challenges.
FluoRok’s platform opens new manufacturing routes to established, high-value fluorochemicals for critical industries. Our initial focus is inorganic fluorides, battery materials and valorisation of waste fluorinated organics/polymers.
Inorganic fluorides
A new manufacturing route for established chemical value chains.
Inorganic fluorides such as sodium fluoride (NaF), potassium fluoride (KF) or Lithium fluoride (LiF) are used as finished products or reactive fluorine sources to make pharmaceutical and agrochemical intermediates as well as advanced materials. Their performance depends on purity: impurities and moisture reduce yields and create unwanted side products, so manufacturers need supply that consistently meets tight specifications. Yet because they are conventionally made from HF, these materials inherit the route’s cost, hazard and concentrated supply.
FluoRok makes high purity inorganic fluorides without any reliance on HF.
What FluoRok changes
Manufacturing
Bypass the conventional HF manufacturing route.
Feedstocks
Access a broader range of fluoride sources.
Economics
Reduce the process and infrastructure burden associated with incumbent production.
Supply
Create the potential to establish production closer to customer demand.
Battery materials
Diversifying critical fluorochemical supply for electrification.
~18 kg
~18 kg of fluorspar, the mineral source of fluorine, required to make a single 40 kWh EV battery.
Source: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
The battery industry talks extensively about lithium, nickel and other critical minerals. Fluorochemicals receive far less attention. Yet they are essential throughout the lithium-ion battery value chain.
Electrolyte salts: LiPF₆
In the electrolyte, the fluorinated salt is the key component transporting lithium ions between anode and cathode.
LiPF₆ is the most used one.
LiPF₆ is found in more than 95% of all Li-ion batteries of the world, regardless of their applications sector:
ELECTRIC VEHICLE
ENERGY STORAGE
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
~4 kg
of LiPF₆ in a 50 kWh EV battery, on average
Source: NITI Aayog, Mine to Market, 2023
BEYOND LiPF₆
The same platform, for the next generation of battery materials.
FluoRok has already demonstrated the platform as suitable for the additives behind next-generation of battery technologies.
LiFSI
Lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide
An electrolyte salt increasingly used in high-performance and high-power cells.
Up to 170kT
per year demand expected by 2030
Source: Electrios, 2026
FEC
Fluoroethylene carbonate
A fluorinated electrolyte additive that helps protect electrodes and extend battery life.
Up to 150kT
per year demand expected by 2030
Source: Electrios, 2026
NaPF₆
Sodium hexafluorophosphate
The electrolyte salt for sodium-ion batteries, a lower-cost technology used mainly for energy storage. Production is concentrated almost entirely in China.
Up to 250GWh
Sodium-ion battery production expected in 2030
Source: Chalmers University of Technology, 2026
Reliable access to them is fundamental to battery manufacturing and world electrification.
The supply chain
A critical but concentrated
supply chain.
Demand
As electrification accelerates, demand for battery fluorochemicals is growing.
Supply
At the same time, production of critical materials such as LiPF₆ remains highly geographically concentrated: >90% is manufactured in China.
Source: Electrios, 2026
Exposure
For the entire battery supply chain including electrolyte blenders,
cell manufacturers and OEMs it creates critical risks.
Establishing competitive production in new regions, especially in Europe and North America, has historically been difficult because of the economics and infrastructure requirements associated with conventional fluorochemical manufacturing.
A new route
A new route to regional production.
FluoRok applies the same foundational manufacturing platform to lithium-ion battery electrolyte salts.
TODAY
Shipped almost exclusively from China.
PRODUCTION · China-centred
BATTERY PLANTS
LONG SUPPLY CHAINS
PRICE VOLATILITY
GEOPOLITICAL RISK
WITH FLUOROK
Made closer to demand.
Close to each market
FLUOROK PRODUCTION
Europe
North America
Japan & Korea
By combining more flexible, lower cost fluoride sources with a safer, less capital-intensive production route, FluoRok creates the opportunity to establish competitive manufacturing closer to western battery and electrolyte production.
The opportunity is bigger than an alternative source of LiPF₆. It is the chance to diversify where critical battery fluorochemicals are made, at lower cost and lower carbon.
1.5Mt
of CO₂ that could be saved [per year] across the global LiPF₆ market
25%
Up to 25% lower process costs
75%
Up to 75% lower capital expenditure
43%
Up to 43% lower CO₂ emissions per kg of LiPF₆
Source: independent third-party techno-economic and life-cycle assessments; market-wide estimate: FluoRok
Waste-to-value
Valorisation of waste fluorinated materials.
FluoRok’s waste-to-value platform applies a mechanochemical process to transform waste fluorinated organic/polymers into high-value chemical intermediates.
In Europe alone, over 25,000 tonnes of fluorinated polymer waste are collected annually for incineration at high financial and emissions costs. FluoRok provides a solvent-free, low-emission solution that completely degrades these persistent materials, recovering essential intermediates for downstream battery, pharmaceutical, and specialty chemical production while supporting full circularity.
25,000 t
Fluorinated organic/polymer waste collected in Europe each year, then incinerated with no economic value.
Source: Conversio, Fluoropolymer waste in Europe 2020
01 · Input
Fluorinated polymer waste
25,000 t collected in the Europe alone each year
02 · Process
FluoRok process
Solvent-free mechanochemistry
03 · Output
High-value intermediates
For battery, pharma and specialty chemicals
Beyond our first markets
Focused commercialisation today.
A broader platform tomorrow.
Today
Inorganic fluorides and battery materials are entry points and just two immediate routes to commercialising FluoRok’s technology.
Inorganic fluorides
Battery materials
Tomorrow
The underlying platform has been tested to support a large and diverse part of the fluorochemical market. FluoRok is actively evaluating and seeking exploitation across the space in near the future.
Next-GEN battery products