Material Return is your solution for custom circularity. We work with local manufacturers and national brands to transform textile waste into new products – all within 75 miles. Our model benefits the environment, local economies, our workers, and our values-aligned clients.
Matco Chemicals
MATCO CHEMICALS group is an all-round service & solutions provider to the chemical industry. MATCO CHEMICALS produces tailor-made compounds & additives and is an undisputed leader in tailormade latex formulation solutions in Europe and the Middle East. MATCO CHEMICALS also provides sourcing & trading services, valorization of overdue / off-spec chemicals and collection & management of (hazardous) chemical waste (in Belgium). MATCO CHEMICALS has recently developed a removable and recyclable latex for use in carpets.
MASIAS MAQUINARIA SL
For over 80 years, Masias Maquinaria has been leading innovation in fibre processing solutions. Today, our focus is firmly set on circularity and sustainable manufacturing. We design machinery that enables mattress and textile producers to transform their production scraps into valuable new products, reducing waste and optimizing resources. Innovation and customized solutions define our DNA. This approach has positioned us as experts in delivering turnkey projects across key sectors: comfort fabrics, non-woven fabrics, production waste recycling, and filling production for the garment industry. We assist our clients in improving and enhancing their production systems while advancing the transition to circular production models that reduce waste and minimize dependence on virgin materials.
MASIAS MAQUINARIA, S.L.
For over 80 years, Masias Maquinaria has been leading innovation in fibre processing solutions. Today, our focus is firmly set on circularity and sustainable manufacturing. We design machinery that enables mattress and textile producers to transform their production scraps into valuable new products, reducing waste and optimizing resources. Innovation and customized solutions define our DNA. This approach has positioned us as experts in delivering turnkey projects across key sectors: comfort fabrics, non-woven fabrics, production waste recycling, and filling production for the garment industry. We assist our clients in improving and enhancing their production systems while advancing the transition to circular production models that reduce waste and minimize dependence on virgin materials.
MAPEA
As a textile recycling solution provider, Mapea recovers textile waste into technical plastics for industry. With our patented TEXTIUM technology, we give a new life to cotton waste, polyester, and polyamide as well as PET/PA blends, elastane, and PU coatings. With our expertise in grinding, densification, formulation, and compounding, we support you in your future recycling solutions
MacroCycle Technologies
MacroCycle transforms textile waste into virgin-quality recycled polyester through our breakthrough SolvoGenesis™ process—the world’s first commercially viable textile-to-textile upcycling technology at price parity. Unlike conventional chemical recycling that breaks polymers down into monomers (requiring energy-intensive re-polymerization), or mechanical recycling that degrades material quality, our patented process directly upgrades polymer chains through macrocyclic intermediates in a non-toxic solvent. This preserves polymer integrity while removing dyes, cotton, elastane, and other contaminants. The result is a chemically identical virgin-grade polyester pellets that function as a true drop-in replacement for brands and mills without compromising on quality or adding a green premium. With 80% less energy than fossil-based production and 60-70% less than competing technologies, MacroCycle enables fashion brands to achieve textile-to-textile circularity at price parity, transforming the economics of sustainable materials.
Loptex
Loptex offers valuable Sorting solutions for the accurate selection of flakes and fibers in the textiles recycling industry. The target is the transformation of industrial pre-consumer waste and industrial post-consumer waste into sustainable and suitable raw material for further processing. | Loptex offers valuable Sorting solutions for the accurate selection of flakes and fibers in the textiles recycling industry. The target is the transformation of industrial pre-consumer waste and industrial post-consumer waste into sustainable and suitable raw material for further processing. Furthermore, Loptex offers a data acquisition and fibers/contamination classification system. It provides important quality information on processing material.
loopamid® / Trinamix
About loopamid® With loopamid®, BASF has developed an innovative solution to improve circularity in the fashion industry and recycle polyamide 6 textile waste. Due to its capability to tolerate all fabric mixtures like PA6 and elastane, the cutting-edge technology behind loopamid® allows textile-to-textile recycling of post-industrial and post-consumer textile waste. The fibers and materials can be recycled over multiple cycles. At the same time, the material characteristics are identical to those of conventional virgin polyamide. Further information on www.loopamid.com
LIST Technology
LIST Technology AG is a technology provider of processing solutions based on unique Continuous Mixing-Kneading Reactors. LIST is based in Switzerland and globally active since 1966. LIST Kneading Reactors are designed • to be charged with solids, gases, liquids, fluffs or textile shreds • for intensive mixing and kneading • highly viscous, sticky, crust-forming, solid-liquid phase-changing or granular/solid multi-phase mixtures, pastes, suspensions, solutions • while heating or cooling • under medium pressure, ambient or vacuum conditions • optionally removing large vapor streams • discharging highly viscous, sticky, granular/solid products • in a continuous operation • from small pilot up to world scale. LIST Kneading Reactors are used for textile recycling by – mixing shreds of textile blends (polycotton, poly-poly) – for a glycolysis, hydrolysis, depolymerization, or dissolving of one component – at multi-phases – in a continuous mode. LIST operates a 4-bay piloting center in Switzerland to support customer projects from simple lab batch feasibility trials to sophisticated continuous pilot trials – always keeping the industrial implementation in mind. LIST technology is also available for basic R&D and recipe development as the LIST Lab Kneader fits in a fume hood. More information under www.list-polymer-recycling.com and www.list-lab-kneader.com and www.list-technology.com