About Us

We are an advanced technology and materials science company. Our mission is to design and deploy advanced materials — mined from waste streams — that make cities resilient.

 

MANIFESTO
OUR TEAM
COMPANY TIMELINE

A World Without Waste
(Manifesto)

America is facing some of its greatest challenges in generations. 

Our national infrastructure is crumbling. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, more intense. And we must cut carbon emissions by 50% to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.

Yes, we need to ‘rebuild a resilient America’. In fact, we must remodel our cities so they can absorb economic and environmental shocks and stresses — and flourish.

The question is, how?

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We cannot rebuild a resilient America by using the same 100+ year old carbon intensive materials crumbling in our roads, bridges and seawalls. A ‘take-make-waste’ approach to earth’s resources is not sustainable. And linear thinking cannot solve today’s complex economic and ecological challenges. It is time for a new approach.

Embracing circularity

A circular economy is one that designs out waste and pollution, keeps products and materials in use, and regenerates natural systems.

These principles deeply inform our work.

Glass, for example, is endlessly recyclable. Despite this, 70% of post-consumer glass (8 MMt) gets landfilled each year. And those landfills are the third largest source of methane emissions generated by human activity in the US.

Cities are abandoning their glass recycling programs over profitability concerns and challenges finding effective end markets for the material.

Our solution is circular.

In advanced manufacturing facilities called Regional Upcycling Mills (RUMs), we upcycle post-consumer glass into high value planet saving materials called ECMs (Engineered Cellular Magmatics).

RUMs kickstart the circular economy:

  • They divert millions of tons of waste from landfills
  • They upcycle recovered materials into high value planet saving ECM products
  • RUMs remediate the very landfills they divert waste from
  • The manufacture and deployment of ECMs offers a pathway to carbon credits
  • RUMs provide quality jobs in the communities in which they operate 
  • They open new sustainable economic opportunities in resilient construction and more

Today’s waste streams are a sad legacy of the industrial revolution. With the help of and proprietary AI and more, we’re mining them to make cities more resilient.

Our vision is a world without waste.

GlassWRX is just the beginning.

— Philip Galland

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OUR TEAM

The GlassWRX founders and principals are the inventors of ECM technology, the foremost experts in ECM production, and the very markets GlassWRX products are disrupting.

We have hand-picked our leadership from the sectors, markets and industries in which we operate. Our advisors are a veritable “who’s who” of glass chemistry, ceramics, materials science, and environmental engineering.

 

In short, we are a group of like-minded innovators, scientists, systems thinkers, and problem-solvers.

We see a world without waste. If you share that vision, join us. Contact careers@glasswrx.com

COMPANY TIMELINE

2021

ECM PRODUCTION BEGINS

June 21. GlassWRX begins production of Engineered Cellular Magmatics in our founding RUM (Regional Upcycling Mill) in Beaufort, South Carolina.

2021

ARPA-E AWARDEE

May. GlassWRX is prime awardee of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to upcycle Municipal Solid Waste Incineration (MWSI) ash into valuable ECM products.

2021

CRADA SIGNED WITH SRNL

June. GlassWRX signs Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Savannah River National Laboratory.

2020

FIRST ECM PATENT FILED

July. GlassWRX files its first patent for Engineered Cellular Magmatics

2020

SILICA DYNAMICS & GLASSWRX MERGE

March. Silica Dynamics, the company formed by Philip Galland, Robert Hust and Gert Nielsen, merges with GlassWRX.

2020

FIRST ECM MANUFACTURED

January. The first Engineered Cellular Magmatic is manufactured with a rented kiln.

2019

ARPA-E CO-AWARDEE

October. Silica Dynamics becomes Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy co-awardee to innovate extremely durable concretes that mimic Roman architectural and marine concretes.

2019

BEAUFORT PLOT BOUGHT

October. REA Investments, GlassWRX investor, purchases plot in Beaufort, South Carolina; site of the GlassWRX founding Regional Upcycling Mill.

2019

GLASSWRX LLC FORMED

August. GlassWRX, LLC is formed.

2019

SILICA DYNAMICS FORMED

June. Silica Dynamics is formed by Philip Galland, Robert Hust and Gert Nielsen.

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