Desotec

Overview

Founded in 1990 in Roeselare, Desotec has built a distinctive service model around mobile activated carbon filtration for industrial customers. Rather than selling filtration equipment outright, the company installs, monitors, and replaces mobile filtration units, then reactivates spent carbon in its own facilities and returns it to service, creating a circular loop that reduces waste and total cost of ownership for clients.

Desotec serves industries with volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions challenges, including chemical manufacturing, water treatment, and food processing. The company is private equity-backed by EQT Future, reflecting institutional investor confidence in the business model's scalability.

The circular filtration-as-a-service model is an example of product-as-a-service applied to industrial environmental compliance, an approach that reduces capital expenditure for clients while creating recurring revenue for Desotec.