Cultivated leather maker Qorium rebrands as Reyva
In the Netherlands, cultivated leather company Qorium has changed its name to Reyva as it shifts focus to scaling up production and targeting sales to fashion and vehicle interiors.
The name combines “REinventing” leather and “VA”, to suggest moving forward. Based at Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus in Maastricht, the company banks and cultivates cells humanely harvested from a cow to create sheets of bovine collagen. These sheets can be processed, cut, and embossed like conventional leather.
“Leather is an extraordinary natural material, but its conventional production begins with the limits and variability of an animal hide. By cultivating collagen in a controlled environment, we can preserve the qualities people value in leather while introducing a new level of precision, consistency and resource efficiency,” Dr. Mark Post, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Reyva, told vegconomist.
Category: Chemicals & Materials
