Following the submission of the PFAS Restriction proposal by five European countries in January 2023, the European industry had to quickly assess its use of PFAS in a variety of equipment and components. Indeed, the net zero technologies of today and tomorrow all use PFAS to some extent, and a broad ban in the coming years could imply significant changes in design and manufacture processes. EPEE hosted an event in April 2024 to discuss these challenges.

Please find the presentations from each of our panelists below.

Martijn Beekman of DG GROW 

• PFAS in the heating & cooling and refrigeration industry: F-gases and fluoropolymers | EPEE, Torben Funder-Kristensen 
• Fluoropolymer use in the hydrogen industry | Hydrogen Europe, Marton Antal 
• Fluoropolymers and the PFAS REACH Restriction | Fluoropolymers Product Group, Nicolas Robin 
• PFAS from a DSO perspective | Eurelectric, Santiago Gallego
• PFAS in flow batteries & PFAS-free alternatives | Flow Batteries Europe, Beata Virsumirska