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NALA in the News

2024

May 13, 2024 -

UT Seed Fund Invests $250,000 in Startup

NALA Membranes

2024

February 12, 2024 -

North Carolina startup raising millions for its water purification technology

2023

September 13, 2023 -

NALA Membranes has been selected as one of the finalists in the Cleantech Company category for The NC Tech Awards

2023

July 11, 2023 -

NALA Membranes CEO,

Sue Mecham & Co-Founder, Judy Riffle explain how new generation membranes fundamentally change water reuse to Paul Gagliardo on the Water Entrepreneur Podcast

2023

May 3, 2023 -

Congressman Nickel Visits First Flight Venture Center- and speaks with CEO Sue Mecham & others to learn more about how policies pertaining to innovation and entrepreneurship affect them.

2023

April 21, 2023 -

How this Morrisville startup wants to help solve the global water crisis

2023

March 22, 2023 -

DOE Awards $9 Million to 12 Projects to Advance Desalination and Water Reuse Technologies Across the U.S.

[NALA WASTEWATER PRETREATMENT FOR POTABLE REUSE]

2022

November 29, 2022 -

Dr. Judy Riffle &

Dr. Sue Mecham win the 2022 Cleantech Innovation Award in the Cleantech Research Innovation category

2022

July 7, 2022 -

NALA Membranes Lands $1.5M To Commercialize Its Breakthrough Tech

2022

April 12, 2022 -

RTP’s NALA Membranes, fresh off raising more than $700K, to collaborate with Singapore organization

2022

April 5, 2022 -

New Generation of Resistant Membrane

Goes Global

2022

March 28, 2022 -

Durham startup NALA Membranes raises $700K to combat global water crisis

2021

November 17, 2021 -

NALA SYSTEMS Wins Industry Driven - Cleantech Award at 2021 NC Tech Awards

2021

October 2021 -

Catalyzing Commercialization: Chlorine-Resistant Membranes Promise a New Era for Reverse Osmosis

2021

April 21, 2021 -

NALA Systems was approved for a $1M NSF Phase II Grant to help continue our research and development

2021

March 1, 2021 -

NALA was chosen to kick off Women's History Month

by co-hosting NC

Secretary of Commerce, 

Machelle Sanders for her swearing in ceremony at First Flight Venture Center

2021

January 15, 2021 -

Cleantech startup in Durham focusing on desalination lands investors for big seed round

2020

November 9, 2020 -

How this mother-daughter duo in RTP wants to change the world of water

2020

October 23, 2020 -

Good Growth Capital Initiates Seed Funding Round for Transformative Membrane Technology 

Startup

2020

June 9, 2020 -

The Matriarchy Behind NALA Systems Is Cleaning Up Water Purification

2020

June 2 2020 -

MassChallenge Texas in Austin announces 2020 Cohort

2019

September 8, 2019 -

​Combating the Global Water Crisis One Drop at a Time: NALA Systems

2019

June 2019 -

NALA Systems moves to First Flight Venture Center in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park establishing

a laboratory for polymer synthesis, membrane fabrication, and reverse osmosis performance testing

2019

January 2019 -

NALA Systems awarded a NSF SBIR Phase 1 Award Entitled: Chemically Resistant Membranes for Water Purification

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