FluoRok Expands at Brookfield’s ARC Oxford Campus
FluoRok, a University of Oxford spin-out focused on reinventing fluorination, has expanded by 175% at Brookfield’s ARC Oxford Campus as the company continues its growth trajectory as it scales its innovative, more sustainable and lower cost fluorochemical manufacturing process.
Earlier this year, the company expanded with an additional 3,000 sq. ft of fully fitted chemistry laboratory space in Building 7200, taking its total occupancy to nearly 5,000 sq. ft as the company focuses on developing HF-free fluorination processes for a better world.
FluoRok has decades of combined experience in chemical manufacturing, fluorination chemistry, scale-up and business development. Fluorochemicals are fundamental to our daily lives, with critical applications in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals and a key component of Lithium-ion batteries.
Currently the production of fluorochemicals relies on a toxic, energy-intensive process developed more than a century ago. FluoRok is re-inventing fluorination by developing new disruptive technologies that provide safe, efficient, lower cost and sustainable access to these key materials.
In 2024 Oxford led the Golden Triangle for laboratory take up. ARC Oxford’s repurposed accommodation from office space to cutting-edge fully fitted flexible laboratories is providing ready-to-go innovation space for companies like FluoRok to scale at pace.
Dan Williams, Asset Director at ARC Oxford, said: “We’re delighted to support FluoRok’s expansion into new fully fitted lab space at ARC Oxford. Their growth highlights our ability to support infrastructure heavy sectors such as Deep Tech in Oxford’s dynamic science and tech ecosystem, and we’re proud that our significant investment in the campus is helping new and existing members scale and innovate at pace in today’s economy.”
Dr Gabriele Pupo, FluoRok’s founder and CEO commented: “Expanding at ARC Oxford will enable FluoRok to further scale our pioneering technology to access key materials for the energy transition such a Li-ion battery electrolyte sales and advance our efforts in revolutionising fluorochemical manufacturing, in a more sustainable, localised and lower cost way. I look forward to continuing our growth journey at ARC Oxford as we realise our mission of creating a safer, greener and better world.”
By the late 2020s ARC is set to invest over £1 billion in Oxfordshire across the ARC Oxford and Harwell Campuses. ARC’s growth strategy reflects demand for high-quality innovation space. Work is already underway for a new 105,000 sq. ft development, Ascent at the Oxford Campus. Once complete Ascent will provide flexible and innovative lab-ready and office space to suit a wide variety of science and tech organisations. The building has been designed to accelerate innovation and is estimated to create approximately 500 jobs and contribute £38 million GVA to the economy annually.
