About Us

Avsalt AB is a startup from Malmö that commercializes a patented, revolutionary technology for water purification that has the potential to compete with existing technologies in all major market segments; the residential, industrial and commercial sectors. The water deionization market was estimated at USD 15 billion in 2021.
The company is listed on the stock exchange Nordic Growth Market after a reverse acquisition with Zesec of Sweden AB in 2024, and plans to do pilot projects in 2025.

The conception

Avsalt was conceived in 2012 by Niels Boon after his doctoral research at Utrecht University.
While studying the means to harvest energy from mixing of river and sea water in estuaries, he realized that the reverse process of converting electrical energy into salinity gradients will be important for desalination. In 2017, Niels relocated the work from Amsterdam to Lund where Niels developed the first prototype capable of desalting water using porous carbon electrodes.

Management

Anders Sjögren

Chief Executive Officer

Anders is a leadership and management professional. He has a PhD in physics, a modern and inclusive leadership that promotes growth and innovation, develop organizations and startups.

Niels Boon

Niels Boon

Chief Technology Officer

Niels is also founder and member of the Board, please see below for more information.

Paula Merina de Cabo

Test Engineer

Paula has a degree in Energy Engineering from the Carlos III University of Madrid and is passionate about sustainability.

Board of Directors

Thomas Bengtsson

Chairman

Thomas is a cleantech entrepreneur and investor with broad experience of governing growth companies, following positions at both investment-fund level, for Industrifonden, and company level as CoB at Nasdaq First North listed companies.

Niels Boon

Niels Boon

Inventor & Founder

Niels received his PhD in 2012 from Utrecht University, with his thesis on electrostatics in ionic solution, followed by a postdoctoral position at Northwestern University, Chicago USA. In 2016, Niels was appointed Research fellow at Lund University, Sweden, where he studied the dynamics of polymers in solution with varying salinity. Niels has received several awards including Molecular Physics’ Longuet-Higgins Young author’s Prize for his publication “Blue energy: From ion adsorption and electrode charging in sea and river water”, and the Future Innovation Honorary Award from Lund University for a desalination device without pumps or valves.

Niclas Ekström

Board Member

Niclas has more than 25 years of experience from leading positions in business development, product management, sales, marketing, production and leadership of high performing teams in the B2B industry.