Woburn, MA – Seaver Construction has completed construction at ZwitterCo’s new Innovation Center at 12 Cabot Road in Woburn. Work included an 18,000sf design/build Prototyping Lab buildout completed with design partners Ebbrell Architecture + Design and RMF Engineers.
The new Innovation Center joins with ZwitterCo’s corporate offices and provides a working lab to enhance research and develop product prototypes quickly. The new lab includes a viewing area, prototype assembly, wet test, coating hall, chemistry, machine shop and staff offices.
Representatives of Seaver Construction say this first-of-its-kind facility unites groundbreaking membrane science with prototyping and scale-up capabilities, allowing ZwitterCo to innovate faster and more collaboratively with their market development partners.
Membrane rolling equipment
ZwitterCo is an advanced membrane technology company named after its innovation – a zwitterionic copolymer. This copolymer uses zwitterions, a special class of molecule that is hydrophilic, or highly attractive to water molecules. ZwitterCo was founded with the idea of “clean water from every source.” The company helps customers treat and reuse unconventional water and wastewater with the world’s first fouling-immune membranes.
ZwitterCo was spun out of Tufts University in 2018. They report delivering membranes for more than 20 commercial projects that have the capacity to treat 6 million gallons of wastewater daily in agriculture, food/beverage, landfills, bioprocessing, and other industrial applications.
