NORTHAMPTON — A water purification startup business that has been operating from the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst will be moving into a nearly 30,000-square-foot building in the Northampton Industrial Park, the next step in the evolution of Elateq Inc.

Elateq will be leasing 155 Industrial Drive, a commercial and warehouse building on 2.39 acres, according to information from property owner representative Region Commercial of West Springfield.

“We will be doing manufacturing out of this new location,” says CEO Roderick Anderson, who in 2020 co-founded Elateq, a veteran, minority and woman-owned business that develops cleaner and greener water purification technologies, including an all-in-one water treatment system.

Already with 10 staff and capacity to add more engineers as the business continues to scale up, this will be the first commercial space for Elateq, after renting space in UMass laboratories. The build out is in progress, but the move out of the UMass site will be complete by the end of May, with manufacturing equipment already in place at the new site.

The other co-founder for Elateq, with a mission to revolutionize the water processing industry and protect global water resources, is Ljiljana Rajic, a former research scientist at Northeastern University.

Mitch Bolotin, a broker with Region Commercial, explained the new site is ideal due to its proximity to other businesses, like Coca-Cola and Saint-Gobain.

“Elateq’s growing business is a welcome addition to the park,” Bolotin said. “The building and I-91 location were a great match for Elateq’s needs and we look forward to seeing this promising young company continue to grow in Northampton.”

Elateq also handles projects with industry, working with PepsiCo for its global green initiatives, cleansing wastewater by using less energy via electrochemical means, eliminating pathogens as well as organic and inorganic pollutants.

The company is also handling an agricultural application in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a desalination project in Singapore and partnering with Blue Action in Grand Bahama.

Locally, Elateq is assisting the town of Amherst to apply its technique as a pretreatment to extract heavy metals and address high iron concentration in the water drainage system in the Pine Grove and Hollow neighborhood, and Anderson said the company will be piloting a way to remove PFAS forever chemicals from water later in 2025.

“We have a busy year coming up,” Anderson said.

A ribbon-cutting is scheduled for June 6 at 3 p.m., with Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra and UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes expected to be among those present.

Scott Merzbach can be reached at smerzbach@gazettenet.com.