Mater - Cube Side Table

Mater - Cube Side Table.

The Mater Cube is made of our circular waste material Matek and an inner frame of FSC® certified wood. The Mater Cube is available in different variants with Matek blends of either coffee shell waste or wood waste mixed with industrial plastic waste from GROHE. The Mater Cube has several uses, limited only by imagination - side table, stool, plant stand, etc. 

Dimensions
W 45 cm x D 45 cm x H 45 cm. Colors: Light, Black and Grey.

Material: Wood waste mixed with industrial plastic waste from GROHE

Origin: Latvia

Designer: By Mater

Sustainability:

One Mater Cube contains:
13,8 kg waste materials

Cutting-edge technology allows Mater to make furniture from waste materials in their patented Matek® material by combining fibre with a binder. The Matek® is made by mixing e-waste with either coffee waste from Danish coffee producer BKI Kaffe or wood waste.

E-waste is a growing environmental concern across the globe due to the world’s use and throwaway
culture. Only 17.4% of total global e-waste is known to have been collected and properly recycled. This figure has dropped over the last five years as a percentage of total waste generated.

About Matek:

The uniquely patented materials enable us to make furniture of waste materials by combining fibre with a binder. Coffee bean shells, extracted during the roasting process, are an example of fibre material. Sawdust from wood production is another. The binder material is made from plastic waste or a plastic-based alternative. The mix of materials results in a unique compound suitable for press moulding - a well-known technique in the furniture industry.

The technology behind Matek allows us to capture carbon in our furniture by recycling waste into timeless classics using resources already available to us, instead of virgin materials. To produce Matek, we either use post-consumer waste or post-industrial waste available to us through successful collaborations with large-scale corporations. We help process their waste streams and make them suitable for furniture production – beneficial to themselves and others.