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Acuriant Technologies, Inc. Shortlisted for Water Technology Company of the Year at the Global Water Awards 2026
Acuriant Technologies, Inc., Boston, MA/US, has been shortlisted for Water Technology Company of the Year at the Global Water Awards 2026. The award is organized by Global Water Intelligence, the leading research and media organization serving the international water sector, and is widely regarded as the most credible recognition in the global water technology industry. Winners are determined by vote of GWI subscribers and announced at the Global Water Summit in Madrid, Spain on 19 May 2026. The nomination reflects a year in which Acuriant’s Nanostone ceramic ultrafiltration platform moved decisively from specialist industrial application into mainstream water treatment evaluation arriving at exactly the moment the industry needs it most.
Water treatment faces a structural shift
Across the world, the conditions that water treatment systems were designed for are no longer the conditions they operate in. Surface water sources face stronger storm events, heavier runoff, and more frequent algal blooms driven by warming temperatures. Turbidity spikes that once defined exceptional events are becoming operational baselines. It is a preview of what utilities worldwide are beginning to face. Against this backdrop, treatment barriers must perform predictably under conditions that conventional systems were not built to absorb. What utilities and industrial operators need is a filtration technology that holds its integrity when feedwater changes sharply, tolerates abrasive solids and aggressive chemistry, and delivers reliable pathogen removal over an asset life measured in decades. Ceramic ultrafiltration does this by design. In 2025, Acuriant closed the economic gap.
From one product to a platform
Acuriant was formed through the merger of Nanostone Water and Solecta, bringing together two complementary membrane brands under one organization. Nanostone is Acuriant’s ceramic ultrafiltration brand, manufacturing and deploying ceramic UF systems for municipal water treatment, industrial process water, and demanding industrial wastewater applications. Solecta serves dairy, food and beverage, life sciences, and other process industries through precision-engineered polymeric microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis. Together they form one of the industry’s most comprehensive membrane portfolios, designed for material-agnostic system design across pretreatment, separation, and polishing. For Nanostone specifically, 2025 was a defining year. The portfolio entered the year centered on a single ceramic UF module. It closed the year with three; each addressing a distinct application need and collectively representing a step-change in the scope of ceramic UF deployment.
CUF|Flow: the economics of ceramic UF have changed
The most consequential of Nanostone’s 2025 launches was CUF|Flow, a high-capacity ceramic ultrafiltration module that delivers approximately 40 % more active membrane surface area within the same physical housing as CUF|Shield, Nanostone’s established cornerstone module. That single development has rewritten the financial calculus of ceramic UF. More membrane area per module means fewer modules per rack, fewer racks per installation, and lower total installed cost across piping, valves, instrumentation, and structural steel. The result is ceramic UF at near economic parity with conventional pretreatment alternatives – for the first time. What this means in practice is that project engineers evaluating pretreatment options can now put ceramic UF in a standard bid comparison on cost, alongside the performance advantages the technology has always offered. The barrier that kept ceramic UF in niche applications for more than a decade has been removed.
There is an additional dimension that increasingly matters to asset owners: ceramic membranes are PFAS-free by construction. As regulatory scrutiny of PFAS-containing materials intensifies across jurisdictions, the material composition of treatment barriers is entering procurement decisions. Installing a ceramic system today eliminates a layer of potential compliance exposure over a 20 year asset horizon.
CUF|ShieldPlus – validated in the most demanding environments on the planet
Alongside CUF|Flow, the launch of CUF|ShieldPlus advanced Nanostone’s ceramic platform into a critical industrial category. CUF|ShieldPlus is engineered specifically for the process-critical wastewater streams generated in semiconductor fabrication, streams that combine chemical aggression, abrasive particle loads, and compliance requirements that leave little margin for performance variability. CUF|ShieldPlus is now operational in more than 50 semiconductor fabrication facilities worldwide. In an industry where unplanned downtime is measured in lost production value, that installed base is a statement of technical trust earned under the most demanding conditions any water treatment system encounters.
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