The Danish EPA’s PFAS Partnership with Industry
PFAS requirements are tightening, and many companies lack an overview. Through the Danish EPA’s PFAS Partnership with Industry, your company gets the support it needs to act — instead of standing alone.
What is the Danish EPA’s PFAS Partnership with Industry?
Many companies lack clarity on where PFAS is found, which alternatives can be used, and how to transition without compromising competitiveness.
The Danish EPA’s PFAS Partnership with Industry was established to make this transition easier.
The partnership is a free initiative for companies that want to accelerate the phase-out of PFAS from products, production equipment, and supply chains in preparation for upcoming regulatory requirements and market expectations.
More than one in four companies do not know whether they use PFAS. ("Teknologisk Udsyn: Vejen mod en PFAS-fri-fremtid for danske virksomheder", 2025)
What does your company gain from participating?
By joining the partnership, you can save time, avoid regrettable substitutions, and gain a faster overview of where PFAS is found — and what you can do about it.
From early workshops and previous PFAS programmes, we know the specific challenges companies are facing. By joining from the start, you can also help shape the direction of the partnership. Your company gains access to relevant specialists and a shared forum working systematically to lower the barriers to PFAS phase-out:
Workshops and knowledge exchange on PFAS in products and processes
Practical tools and guides for supplier dialogue, impact assessment, and strategic communication
Networks and taskforces working on regulatory barriers, impact assessments, and the categorisation of PFAS uses
Relevant for a wide range of industries
The partnership is relevant for any company working with products, materials, components, or processes where PFAS may be present — whether intentionally added or unintentionally introduced through suppliers. PFAS frequently appears in components the company does not manufacture itself.
This means most sectors — from electronics, food and medical technology to textiles, transport, and industrial equipment — can benefit from participating.
It is particularly relevant if your company:
Lacks an overview of PFAS in its products and processes
Struggles to obtain reliable answers from suppliers
Wants to avoid incorrect or risky substitutions
Needs to prepare for upcoming EU requirements
Wishes to share the load and find solutions together with others in the same situation
Three good reasons to join
Community: Solve PFAS challenges together with other companies facing the same situation. Shared knowledge and shared solutions make the work faster and significantly easier.
Actionability: Your company progresses more quickly with the PFAS work you need to carry out anyway.
Foresight: Your company becomes proactively prepared for upcoming PFAS requirements, market expectations, and regulation, placing you in a much stronger position when changes take effect.
What is expected from your company?
Participation in the PFAS Partnership is free, and there are no formal requirements. You decide how actively your company wishes to participate. However, we do expect that your company:
Participates in the joint meetings (two physical and two online annually).
Contributes where possible — the more you participate, the more you gain.
Shares knowledge in non–business-critical areas to help develop shared solutions.
Works on your own PFAS-related challenges in step with the partnership’s activities.
Participation is flexible, and taskforces are voluntary.
The partnership is designed to make your existing PFAS work easier — not to create additional work.
Watch the webinar about the partnership
Below you can watch a webinar in which Emil Damgaard-Møller, Head of the Partnership Secretariat, presents the partnership and the thinking behind it:
See also the Danish EPA's press release (in Danish)
Who is behind the partnership?
The Danish EPA’s PFAS Partnership with Industry (2026–27) is operated by Danish Technological Institute together with knowledge partners inVirke, Danish Standards, and Apeiron — and in collaboration with The Danish Chamber of Commerce and Danish Industry.
The partnership is offered by the Danish EPA under the Ministry of Environment and Gender Equality and forms part of the government’s national PFAS action plan.