From waste to material. From material to new spaces.

We recover pre-consumer textiles and turn them into wall-cladding panels with a unique identity, acoustic and thermal properties, and fire performance.

Requecho works at that meeting point: we recover waste from the textile industry and turn it into a new material for architecture and interior design.

Three Requecho panels leaning against a pale wall among ivy leaves: one pink, one dark and speckled, one blue.

THE PROBLEM

The textile industry discards tons of material that could become a resource.

Much of the material left over from textile production loses its value and becomes waste. At the same time, architecture and interior design need materials with a lower impact and new capabilities.

  1. +92 million

    tons of textile waste every year worldwide.

    UNEP, 2025.

  2. ≈ 500,000 tons

    every year in Argentina. Most of it ends up in landfills, incinerated or untraced.

    Ministry of Environment, Buenos Aires Province, 2025.

  3. +40%

    of the materials extracted worldwide are consumed by construction.

    UNEP / GlobalABC, 2026.

THE MATERIAL

A new material to transform spaces.

Interior cladding panels that combine design, texture and performance. Each piece has its own identity and becomes part of the space's language.

We work with color, combinations and gradients for each project. The texture, the fibers and the variations of every piece are part of an aesthetic that seeks character, not uniformity.

  • A hand holds two blue-and-white Requecho panels against a door painted yellow.
  • Wooden-framed piece made of eight indigo-blue Requecho panels.
  • Two hands show dark-blue Requecho panels and a light one with red and orange fibers.
  • Blue, black and light Requecho panels with colored fibers resting next to ivy.
  • A pile of Requecho discs with grey, blue and red fibers.
  • Two speckled-blue Requecho panels leaning against a yellow door.
  • Wooden-framed mosaic of blue and cream Requecho panels.
  • Denim offcuts in a glass jar next to Requecho samples: the waste and the finished material.
  • A black-and-cream Requecho disc on a yellow wall.
  • Hands fanning out Requecho panels in different shades of blue, in a courtyard with ivy.
  • A wooden-framed piece of blue and cream Requecho panels, in the sun in a courtyard with plants.
  • Requecho samples from above: a cream-and-black disc, a dark panel and a light one with red fibers.

Properties and performance

  • Acoustic

    Sound absorption:

    α = 0.51–0.70

    Helps reduce reverberation and improve acoustic comfort in interiors.

  • Thermal

    Thermal conductivity:

    λ ≈ 0.085 W/mK

    Its low conductivity contributes to insulation and indoor thermal comfort.

  • Fire performance

    Requecho — IRAM 11910 standard · RE2 target

    International references for comparable materials:

    • Europe — C-s1,d0 · EN 13501-1
    • France — M2 · NF P92-501
    • USA — Class B · ASTM E84-26

  • Emissions

    Low volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.

Testing and certifications in progress.

Applications

  • Interior wall cladding
  • Acoustic panels
  • Furniture and design objects
  • Custom developments

Specifications

Composition
Shredded textiles + bio-based binder
Size
20 × 10 × 2.5 cm
Use
Interior, non-structural
Coverage
50 panels = 1 m²
Recovered material
≈ 7.5 kg of textile waste recovered per m²
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How we do it.

We developed a process that lets us recover waste, preserve its material value and transform it into a new piece.

  1. 01

    We recover

    We collect pre-consumer textile waste, mainly from cutting tables.

  2. 02

    We sort

    We separate and organize it by composition, color and material characteristics.

  3. 03

    We shred and formulate

    We break down the fibers and combine them with our bio-based binder system.

  4. 04

    We press

    We give each panel its shape, density and thickness.

  5. 05

    We dry

    The material completes its drying and stabilization process before becoming a product.

WHY REQUECHO

Circularity, performance and design.

Where a conventional solution needs several layers, Requecho combines acoustic and thermal performance with a visible finish in a single material.

  • A hand holds scraps of denim, the textile waste that becomes panels, with Requecho panels in the background.

    Recovered material

    Each m² recovers approximately 7.5 kg of pre-consumer textile waste.

  • A hand holds three Requecho panel samples with different finishes against a yellow door.

    Design for every space

    We work on colors, combinations and gradients together with architects and designers to integrate the material into the project.

  • Eight blue and cream Requecho panels in a wooden frame, showing the thickness and density of the fibers.

    Functional properties

    The same material provides a visible finish, sound absorption and thermal performance.

  • Three Requecho panels in different colors resting next to a plant: each piece has its own texture.

    Material identity

    The material's own fibers, textures and variations are part of the final expression of each piece.

Verónica Litvinoff and Luciana Sabsay look at each other and laugh against a white wall: Verónica holds a handful of textile scraps and Luciana two Requecho panels.

FOUNDERS

Requecho was born from knowing the industry from the inside.

We are Luciana Sabsay and Verónica Litvinoff. We met while studying Fashion Design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and have spent more than twenty years working across different areas of the textile industry.

For years we watched the same scene repeat itself: offcuts, leftovers and materials that lost their value as soon as production ended. Requecho was born from a simple question: what if, instead of treating that material as waste, we could design with it again?

  • Portrait of Luciana Sabsay, smiling, in a floral shirt against a white wall.

    Luciana Sabsay

    Co-founder · Business & Sales

    Fashion designer (UBA) specialized in Communication and Marketing. More than twenty years of experience in textile production, business development and supplier and workshop management. For twelve years she led production at ADA Collection for international markets. She is also a textile sustainability consultant.

  • Portrait of Verónica Litvinoff, smiling, in a light blue printed shirt against a white wall.

    Verónica Litvinoff

    Co-founder · Product & Operations

    Fashion designer (UBA) specialized in product, biomaterials and textile innovation, with training in the Sociology of Design. More than twenty years of experience in product development and production, from raw-material selection to working with workshops and industrial processes.

RECOGNITION

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Let's talk.

Leave your details and we'll get in touch to tell you more about the material and how it can fit into your project.

We only use your details to answer your inquiry.

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