matterr has announced a new partnership with BESTSELLER, joined through their investment platform, Invest FWD. This collaboration supports a shared goal: to make polyester a sustainable, endlessly reusable resource.
At matterr, the team has developed a chemical process that breaks down polyester (PET) from textiles and packaging waste, even when blended and tough to recycle, back into materials matching virgin quality. This process uses no solvents, consumes less energy than traditional methods, and has been designed to scale up efficiently for industrial use—all with a focus on practicality and cost-effectiveness.
With backing from the EU and new investment from BESTSELLER, matterr is preparing to build a small industrial plant in Germany. This facility will mark an important step toward making recycled polyester solutions available at a commercial scale.
Both matterr and BESTSELLER believe that solutions ready to integrate smoothly into existing production, viable economically, and scalable in size are essential for reducing carbon emissions in the polyester supply chain. BESTSELLER stands out as a partner committed to this realistic and impact-driven vision of expanding recycled materials.
Scaling breakthrough technologies requires strong and pragmatic partners. With BESTSELLER, we share not only mindset and values, but also the belief that drop-in ready, scalable and eco nomically viable solutions are the business models of the future. This partnership accelerates our mission to make polyester a resource that can be recycled repeatedly.
Melanie Hackler, Chief Executive Officer, matterr
The new partnership highlights a shared commitment to pushing forward with technologies and investments that make polyester recycling an industrial reality.
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