Moleaer Wins Prestigious WEF Innovative Technology Award for Breakthrough NanoShield Solution
Award recognizes nanobubble technology innovation redefining wastewater treatment performance and sustainability
Hawthorne, Calif., Sept. 30, 2025 – Moleaer Inc., today announced it has received the 2025 Water Environment Federation (WEF) Innovative Technology Award for its NanoShieldTM solution. This award is one of the industry’s highest honors, recognizing groundbreaking technologies that significantly improve water quality, enhance operational performance, and create a more sustainable future for water management.
WEF’s annual awards program celebrates organizations and individuals who are solving the world’s most pressing water challenges. The Innovative Technology Award highlights solutions with proven, real-world results and the potential to drive widespread transformation across the water sector.
“The WEF Innovation Award is a powerful recognition of the disruptive role nanobubble technology is playing in transforming wastewater treatment,” said Baji Gobburi, Vice President of Wastewater at Moleaer. “NanoShield represents the next generation of process intensification, helping both industrial and municipal customers achieve enhanced nutrient removal, improved effluent quality, lower energy consumption, and reduced chemical usage, without the need for costly plant overhauls. NanoShield isn’t just an incremental upgrade; it’s a game-changer for how customers approach treatment capacity, resource efficiency, and long-term resilience.”
NanoShield is a first-of-its-kind nanobubble pretreatment solution that acts as both a physical separator and biocatalyst, delivering powerful results without complex or expensive infrastructure upgrades.
By harnessing Moleaer’s patented nanobubble technology, process engineering expertise and global service support, NanoShield enables utilities to:
- Achieve higher nitrogen removal to meet strict regulatory requirements
- Lower energy consumption for reduced operational costs and carbon footprint
- Minimize chemical usage for safer, more sustainable operations
- Stabilize processes, even during industrial upsets and challenging conditions
- Increase biogas production in facilities with anaerobic digesters
Real-world installations have demonstrated consistently superior performance, proving NanoShield’s ability to unlock cost-effective process intensification and set a new standard for wastewater treatment.
Moleaer was honored alongside other innovators during the 2025 WEF Awards Ceremony, celebrating leaders who are shaping the future of water.
About Moleaer
Moleaer is the leader in nanobubble technology, unlocking scalable, sustainable solutions that improve efficiency, increase productivity, and reduce water, energy and chemical use across industries. With more than 3,500 systems deployed in over 55 countries, Moleaer’s patented nanobubble generators deliver the most efficient gas-to-liquid transfer and nanobubble production available, accelerating physical, chemical and biological processes across a range of applications.
From agriculture and aquaculture to food safety, wastewater treatment, lake and reservoir restoration, natural resource recovery, and more, Moleaer’s technology s trusted to deliver better results with fewer inputs. By working with customers to solve their toughest challenges, Moleaer enables them to do more with less, sustainably, efficiently, and at scale.
Learn more about Moleaer at www.Moleaer.com.
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