Via Separations highlights commercialization, DOE award and expansion plans during Healy visit

Via Separations used the Watertown event to showcase a first-of-its-kind facility and to describe rapid commercial progress and plans for national expansion.

"This is commercial today, and we're eradicating emissions in the industrial sector this year in 2024," CEO Shreya Dabi told the audience, tracing the company’s roots to MIT research and incubation at Greentown Labs. Dabi said the Watertown site is home to more than 50 Massachusetts-based employees and described company operations elsewhere in the state and planned expansion to other regions.

Dabi said Via Separations was recently selected for a "fairly competitive, nearly $15,000,000 industrial decarbonization award from the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations at the Department of Energy" that will support a facility in Louisiana and help the company scale to additional states.

Speakers at the event noted Mass CEC and early grants were important to Via’s early growth: Reichard said the company's "first dollar in the door was from Mass CEC," and Mass CEC representatives described grant programs and a 2030 investment fund designed to support scale-up.

Company leaders and state officials framed Via as an example of the ecosystem the administration wants to grow through the Mass Leads Act. No procurement, regulatory approvals or site-specific permitting actions were announced at the Watertown event; the DOE award was presented as a competitive federal grant for industrial decarbonization.

Next steps: Via said it will continue commercial operations in Massachusetts and pursue expansion using federal awards and private investment; officials at the event urged legislative support for state-level investment to complement those moves.