2025 Product of the Year Award - Filter Element

🏆 Carbelim Wins WFI’s 2025 Product of the Year Award for Filter Element

The World Filtration Institute (WFI) is proud to award Carbelim the 2025 Product of the Year Award for Filter Element for its groundbreaking BioMimetic Facade—a nature-inspired, building-integrated filtration system that transforms urban architecture into a climate-active solution.

Carbelim’s CBF™ BioMimetic Facade reimagines buildings as living systems. By integrating transparent panels with vertical microalgae chambers into building exteriors, the facade actively purifies urban air, captures CO₂, and releases oxygen, delivering measurable environmental and health benefits at the city scale.

🌿 Why the BioMimetic Facade Stands Out

🌬️ Advanced Urban Air Filtration

• Actively filters PM2.5, PM10, VOCs, and NOx

• Improves outdoor and near-building air quality in dense urban environments

🌱 Carbon Capture & Oxygen Generation

• Sequesters up to 52 kg of CO₂ per m² per year

• Continuously generates fresh oxygen through photosynthesis

🤖 AI-Driven Performance

• Smart IoT sensors and AI algorithms optimize microalgae growth

• Ensures peak filtration efficiency and system performance in real time

🏙️ Building-Integrated & Scalable

• Modular design suitable for new construction and retrofits

• Water-efficient and aligned with LEED and WELL green building standards

🔄 Circular Economy Benefits

• Produces valuable byproducts, including:

  • Biomass for plant-based proteins

  • Vegan Omega-3 oils and cosmetic extracts

  • Biochar for verifiable carbon credits

• Advances the circular carbon economy beyond traditional filtration

🌍 Recognized at WFI 2025

The award was presented at the World Filtration Institute Annual Conference on December 2, 2025, held under the theme “Filtration for a Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable World.”

Carbelim’s BioMimetic Facade exemplifies how filtration, biotechnology, AI, and architecture can converge to create healthier cities and climate-positive buildings.

Congratulations to the entire Carbelim team!