Reju Opens First North American R&D Centre To Advance Textile Recycling
Reju, a textile regeneration company, has opened its first proprietary Research and Development (R&D) Centre in North America in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, to accelerate the commercialisation of its textile recycling technologies.
Located within Technip Energies’ Advanced Materials and Catalysts Research Center, the facility will support the development of next-generation circular solutions and strengthen Reju’s research capabilities.
The new centre also marks the relocation of Reju’s core research team from IBM’s Almaden Research Center in California, where its VolCat depolymerisation technology—a catalytic process that converts polyester waste into reusable raw materials—was originally developed.
The R&D Centre will support the full innovation cycle, from feasibility studies to kilogram-scale production, with research focused on polyester recycling, blended textile solutions and new circular chemistry pathways. It will also validate technologies for deployment at Reju’s planned Regeneration Hubs, designed to convert post-consumer textile waste into high-quality recycled feedstock.
According to Gregory Breyta, Director of Research and Development at Reju, the new facility will help accelerate the industrialisation of the company’s textile-to-textile recycling technologies.
The Conshohocken centre is part of Reju’s global strategy to build a closed-loop textile recycling ecosystem, complementing its Regeneration Hub Zero in Frankfurt and planned facilities in Sittard (Netherlands), Lacq (France) and Rochester, New York.
