Every year, billions of euros’ worth of recoverable nutrients are flushed away — along with the energy, time and money spent cleaning them up. For municipal treatment plants and industrial facilities, it’s a cycle of spending more to get less.
Treating wastewater has long been seen as an unavoidable expense — something to manage, contain, or outsource. But the real cost isn’t just in running the system. It’s in what gets lost: nitrogen, phosphorus, chemicals, and energy.
And as costs rise and geopolitics tense, the price and risk of doing things the old way keeps climbing.
It’s time to stop treating wastewater as a burden — and start seeing it for what it really is: an opportunity.
Wastewater treatment faces increasing pressure stop using billions of euros and causing emissions only to dispose the valuable nutrients.
We offer them turn-key equipment to add to their existing treatment line helping reduce both costs and emissions.
Subsequently, we support them with nutrient trading services to ensure the nutrients recycle. Agriculture desperately needs secure local nutrient sources to replace imports, yet supply is limited.
Most nutrient recovery systems fall short where it counts: cost and scalability. They burn energy, demand manual work, or produce outputs that aren’t worth much.
Our technology requires only increasing pH – no heating, aeration, pressure, or additional chemicals. We’re not only cheaper than other recovery solutions, we also generate savings compared to the current removal processes.
We recover nitrogen as a pure ammonia salt and phosphorus as amorphous calcium phosphate. Both are not only useful but necessary for fertilizer production.
Our process is physiochemical and operated only by dosing a base and an acid. Unlike other parties, we’ve found the way to use hydrophobic membrane stripping with total suspended solids up to 3% in the wastewater.
We capture nutrient-rich wastewater from, agricultural, municipal or industrial sources — the kind that usually goes to waste.
Through our proprietary process, we separate and recover valuable nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus efficiently and sustainably.
The result: high-quality ammonium salt, a phosphorus-based product, and treated wastewater.
NPHarvest began as a research project at Aalto University in 2016 with a bold idea: what if wastewater treatment could be more than just damage control?
The team — engineers, scientists, and circular economy geeks — set out to prove that valuable nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus could be recovered efficiently, without the usual chemical baggage or energy drain.
After years of development and real-world pilots, our system proved it could do just that — turning wastewater into a reliable source of clean water and reusable nutrients.
Our founders took the leap of faith and spun off as a startup in 2023We’re still driven by the same idea: Wastewater isn’t waste — it’s just a resource in the wrong place.
The original engine behind NPHarvest. Juho invented the core technology during his doctoral research at Aalto University. Today, he leads both the vision and the tech with deep expertise and an unstoppable drive for practical impact.
Joined NPHarvest from McKinsey to drive commercialization and investor growth. Sara blends sharp strategic thinking with deep operational insight — scaling up, breaking through, and keeping it all grounded in process.
Brings a decade of biogas industry expertise and a sharp instinct for sales. Burak bridges market and manufacturing — managing procurement, supply chains, and building the partnerships that keep NPHarvest growing strong.
With more than 20 years of leading complex projects in organic waste and environmental engineering, Federico keeps NPHarvest’s business machine running — hands-on, across disciplines, and always on time.
Fresh out of Aalto University with a focus on water and environmental engineering, Eero works with Juho to soak up the science and safeguard the future of NPHarvest’s core know-how for years to come.
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