Wave Lumina Featured on Interlochen Public Radio

Interlochen Public Radio profiled Wave Lumina in a feature on the Traverse City startup’s work to make PFAS testing faster — taking it from a weeks-long lab process to on-site results in minutes.

The piece followed the team into the field, where they tested water samples with the company’s technology for the first time and sent parallel samples to a lab to compare results. As the reporting explained, engineers today often have to “play Battleship” to locate contamination — relying on interviews and slow lab turnaround to map where PFAS is on a site. Wave Lumina’s approach is designed to shorten that loop dramatically, so cleanup can start sooner.

“I hope that we’ve got these products out there in the hands of people, actually solving their problems,” founder Vernon LaLone told IPR.

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