Recycling technology company Samsara Eco has opened its new facility in Jerrabomberra, southeastern New South Wales, marking a major step in its rapid growth from laboratory research to full-scale operations within just four years.
The site will serve as the company’s new headquarters and is equipped with its proprietary EosEco processing technology. While production capacity details were not disclosed, the company stated that the plant will “exponentially increase” its ability to create recycled materials such as nylon 6,6 and polyester. The facility also includes expanded enzyme production capabilities, supporting Samsara’s AI-powered enzyme discovery and development platform to recycle a wider range of plastics.
Samsara Eco uses engineered enzymes to break down end-of-life polymers into monomers, which can then be transformed into virgin-identical, low-carbon circular materials. “In just four years, we’ve scaled from bench research through to pilot, demonstration, and now our first plant. This is a true tipping point for circularity, shifting circular materials from early-stage innovation to mainstream reality,” said founder and CEO Paul Riley. He added that growing demand from brands and new regulatory support are helping accelerate adoption.
Samsara Eco highlighted that the new facility will give brands the ability to meet circularity goals, with capacity to produce the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of garments each year.
Founded in 2001 as a partnership between Main Sequence and an Australian university, Samsara Eco raised 56 million dollars in a Series A round in 2022, followed by a further 100 million dollars in 2023. The Jerrabomberra site is also expected to serve as a foundation for Samsara Eco’s first large-scale nylon 6,6 plant, which is being designed with engineering partner KBR. Planned to open in Asia in 2028, that plant is expected to have a 20,000 tonne capacity.
The new facility will also contribute to pilot programmes and research collaborations with organisations such as The LYCRA Company and Deakin University’s Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub. Products featuring materials from the plant are set to appear in future collections from global brands including lululemon.
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