By embedding its research team inside Technip Energies’ own catalysis facility rather than an external partner, Reju gains direct access to the process development and industrial scale-up expertise its Volcat depolymerization technology needs to move from pilot to commercial volume.
Reju, the textile-to-textile materials regeneration company, has opened its first dedicated research and development center in North America, in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The facility is located inside Technip Energies’ existing Advanced Materials and Catalysts research site and will house the core team Reju is relocating from International Business Machines (IBM)’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, where the company’s Volcat depolymerization technology was originally developed.
Technip Energies is a global technology and engineering company with leadership positions in LNG, hydrogen, ethylene, sustainable chemistry and CO2 management. It is organized into two segments: Technology, Products and Services and Project Delivery. The company employs more than 18,000 people across 35 countries, generated revenues of €7.2 billion in 2025 and is listed on Euronext Paris.
Volcat is a catalytic chemical recycling method that breaks down polyester into reusable raw materials. The Conshohocken lab will work across the full research pipeline, from early feasibility studies through production at kilogram scale, covering polyester recycling, mixed fabric solutions and new circular chemistry pathways. Reju said the work will support validating technologies destined for its future Regeneration Hubs.
The strategic bet: embedding R&D where industrial scale-up expertise already lives
By placing its research team within Technip Energies’ own research infrastructure, Reju gains direct access to catalysis, process development and the expertise needed to scale up production: capabilities that matter as it tries to move Volcat from lab scale chemistry to commercial volume output.
The center is designed to feed Reju’s broader effort to turn today’s textile waste into tomorrow’s raw materials across a network of facilities.
The Pennsylvania lab joins Reju’s first commercial scale plant, Regeneration Hub Zero, in Frankfurt, Germany, and three further Regeneration Hubs already announced for Sittard in the Netherlands, Lacq in France and Rochester, New York.
