UNDO Joins RXN HUB Kingston: Building Canada’s Next Chapter Of Climate Innovation

UNDO’s Canadian team has moved into RXN HUB in Kingston, creating a single base for lab work, field data handling, and day-to-day coordination. The move strengthens how samples, analysis, and operational planning flow together, which is essential for enhanced rock weathering projects that depend on reliable, repeatable measurements.

Canada is working toward a 40 to 45 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared with 2005 levels, and a net-zero economy by 2050. These targets set the context for practical delivery at project level, from good lab practice to high-quality monitoring and verification, and from tight logistics to strong community relationships.

RXN HUB brings multiple types of innovators into one place. With facilities designed to help teams validate, scale, and deploy solutions that move from bench to field to market. For UNDO, that means fit-for-purpose space to process soil and rock samples, manage quality control, and collaborate with peers working on complementary solutions in materials, measurement, and manufacturing. The result is faster feedback loops, clearer audit trails, and more time in the season for the work that matters on farms and in the field.

Spotlight on RXN HUB

Rafael Olvera (Director of Venture Services), Dr. Steacy Coombs (Director of Technology Development), Dr. Morgan Lehtinen (Executive Director), Karleigh Young (Partnerships & Special Projects Lead), Sebastian Alamillo (Director of Strategy & Industry)

Can you tell us a bit about RXN HUB? Why was it created, and what makes it unique in Canada’s innovation ecosystem?

“RXN HUB was created by former founders backed by a national coalition of service providers to be the thing we wish we had. It provides centralized access to the infrastructure, technology adopters, funding opportunities, talent, and ecosystems needed to take headaches away from innovators so they can focus on what they do best.”

Dr. Morgan Lehtinen, Executive Director, RXN HUB

What kinds of companies and projects is RXN HUB designed to support?

“RXN HUB’s services were designed to support the mobility, natural resources, CCUS, energy, advanced materials, agriculture, and advanced manufacturing sectors.

If an electron or atom moves, but doesn’t interact with the human body and isn’t radioactive – then we are here to help.” 

Sebastian Alamillo, Director of Strategy & Industry, RXN HUB

Why was Kingston chosen as the home for RXN HUB?

“Kingston has a unique mix of talent, real estate, and vision to enable a ChemTech commercialization hub to thrive. This comes from an 80-year history of investment into chemistry scale-up, starting in the 1940s with the construction of DuPont’s global scale-up facilities and Alcan’s innovation centre. In 2019, the City of Kingston became the first municipality to declare a climate emergency, and they subsequently took steps to address that by investing $3M into the creation of a cleantech innovation hub in 2022; this became RXN HUB.”

Sebastian Alamillo, Director of Strategy & Industry, RXN HUB

What are some of the standout capabilities and equipment RXN HUB offers to members?

“Over $70M was invested to retrofit the 20,500 m^2 facility to be near-net-zero. Now, 945 Princess St. hosts manufacturing suites, hazardous piloting bays, R&D wet-labs, art-restoration labs, analytical suites, silicon nano fabrication labs, and coworking space.

Companies can have the flexibility to accomplish their goals in a home for chemistry, entrepreneurship, and innovation.” 

Dr. Morgan Lehtinen, Executive Director, RXN HUB

How do you see RXN HUB helping to accelerate climate and sustainability solutions specifically?

“By scaling TRL 4-6 technologies and deploying them in real-world environments at TRL 6-8 before launching their commercial deployment, RXN HUB is specially designed to de-risk and accelerate the adoption of chemical technologies that address complex sustainability challenges. In many ways, it was chemistry that got us into our climate mess, and now it’s chemistry that will get us out.” 

Sebastian Alamillo, Director of Strategy & Industry, RXN HUB

What role does collaboration play at RXN HUB, and how do you foster connections between different innovators under one roof?

“Everything is about resource sharing at RXN HUB – it’s how we are able to keep costs down and bundle procurement to get better pricing for the ventures we support.” 

Sebastian Alamillo, Director of Strategy & Industry, RXN HUB

What excites you most about welcoming UNDO into RXN HUB?

“When we started RXN HUB in 2021, we were driven by a desire to provide a platform for high-impact companies to change the world. Getting a front row seat to watch UNDO take on the future of CCS and playing a small part in supporting that mission makes years of effort incredibly rewarding.” 

Dr. Morgan Lehtinen, Executive Director, RXN HUB

How do you see UNDO’s work in enhanced rock weathering fitting into the broader community of RXN HUB innovators?

“UNDO falls directly at the intersection of RXN HUB’s commitment to supporting Canada’s AgTech and CCUS sectors, providing RXN HUB with more opportunities to engage with stakeholders in the voluntary credit markets and our local farmers.”

Dr. Morgan Lehtinen, Executive Director, RXN HUB

Spotlight on UNDO’s Canadian Team

What does moving into RXN HUB mean for UNDO’s Canadian operations?

“The Canadian Team’s move into RXN HUB has created a greater sense of cohesion and structure in a way that has bolstered culture and communication. Our Team has a home base, and we are gearing up for big systems streamlining to get to our big 2026 goals.”

Peggy Sue Deaven, General Manager

How will the new facilities help scale UNDO’s research and operations in Canada?

“Our Team is absolutely tenacious! They have been working incredibly well together, testing, iterating, and building systems while we simultaneously roll out operations across Canada. By coming together in one home base as a Canadian Team, they have already begun to level up their structures and rigorous systems for our upcoming 2026 scale-up. 

Our team culture and communication is being given consistency and space to flourish in the form of a base for the team to shape to their own needs and use cases. There is nothing quite like that real-life, face-to-face communication and relationship building that our Team is so well-known for in the Ontario community.”

Peggy Sue Deaven, General Manager

What opportunities do you see for collaboration with other innovators at RXN HUB?

“Being a part of the RXN HUB Community has positioned the Canadian Team proudly within the Kingston community, in which we are already so very active. We now have a single space, curated for our custom use-case needs, that allows us to showcase our procedures and protocols and better collaborate with Partners within the immediate and far-reaching community. 

Our CDR leading technologies and soil science can be witnessed firsthand by our partners. As we get more involved with RXN HUB and scale up our operational efforts within Ontario, we look forward to future partnerships and collaborations within Canada.”

Peggy Sue Deaven, General Manager

Looking ahead, how do you see this move helping UNDO grow its presence and partnerships in Canada?

“There’s nothing quite like ‘seeing it to believe it.’ The immense volume of sampling and analysis that our team performs on a regular cadence is nothing short of extraordinary. It speaks volumes to the integrity behind our MRV and data-driven approach to CDR. And being able to showcase this process from field-taken soil sample to lab-analyzed result positions our team of experts to be able to explain this process much more seamlessly to those looking to partner with industry-leading ERW CDR technology. 

We aim to de-mystify the CDR process that serves not only our Canadian Climate drawdown initiatives, but the Agricultural, Mining, and Logistics industries that serve as the backbones to our operational processes. We are on the doorstep of significant operational scale-up, and this team, now cohesively set up in its RXN HUB Lab, is leading the forefront of ERW technology and MRV processes.”

Peggy Sue Deaven, General Manager

What has been the most immediate benefit you’ve noticed since moving into RXN HUB?

“Having a built-to-purpose lab has allowed us to streamline our workflow and scale our sample throughput. Having both the soil processing lab and clean wet chemistry lab in adjacent spaces lets the team tackle different aspects of our MRV program concurrently.”

Declan DeJordy, Lab Manager

How does having access to new lab space and equipment change your day-to-day research and operations?

“In the simplest sense, the additional space has expanded our capacity and ability to scale. More ovens, more soil grinders, and more laboratory benchspace have all resulted in quicker turnarounds from field to results. We’ve also been able to bring additional analyses in-house through specialized equipment, giving us better sightlines over quality control and record-keeping, and generating significant savings.”

Declan DeJordy, Lab Manager

What excites you most about being part of Kingston’s growing climate innovation community?

“It’s a cool building to be a part of. Being able to grab a coffee in the coworking space and chat with like-minded people has been a huge positive. It’s a great community coming together, and I can’t think of a better place for UNDO to call home in Canada.”

Declan DeJordy, Lab Manager

Why This Matters in Ontario

UNDO’s Canada program is operating at a meaningful scale, with more than 59,000 tonnes spread across over 22,000 acres on more than 170 farms, delivering over 19,000 tonnes of durable CO₂ removal. The move into RXN HUB shortens the path from field sampling to confirmed results and keeps a single audit trail in NEWTON. It also supports hands-on collaboration with neighbours in Kingston, which helps turn evidence into reliable delivery season after season.

What’s Next

Canada’s climate targets set a clear path for the next decade and beyond, but momentum comes from execution. A shared home at RXN HUB supports consistent methods, quicker turnarounds from field to results, and closer relationships with partners who want to see how evidence is generated in practice. That combination, credible data plus collaboration, is what allows enhanced rock weathering to scale responsibly in Ontario and across Canada.

Over the next phase, the focus is on continuing rigorous MRV, operational reliability, and community fit at scale. The Kingston base will help tighten workflows, streamline sample handling, and make it easier for partners to understand what durable carbon removal looks like from end to end. As the 2026 goals come into view, RXN HUB provides the environment to build repeatable processes, refine costs, and deepen collaboration with peers working on complementary climate and sustainability challenges.

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