ABOUT MATMARKET
OVER 20 YEARS OF SALES, MANUFACTURING, AND SUPPLY CHAIN EXPERTISE.
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EXPERIENCE & RELATIONSHIPS
Matmarket launched in 1999 as a representative agency, working with a select group of Asian material manufacturers.
The original Matmarket team lived and worked in China. We trained with our partners on how to create materials and incorporate them into final products.
This experience provided a first-hand understanding of the local culture, insight into manufacturing systems, and the opportunity to cultivate long-term relationships across the entire supply chain.
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Our material manufacturers are our partners. Applying our understanding of sales and marketing to appeal to Western brands, we built a marketing platform around a variety of material ranges.
By putting accessible information directly into the hands of global brands, Matmarket enabled them to build better products from materials produced by our partners. Conversely, we took customers’ needs, market insights, and our collective knowledge back to our manufacturing partners so they could build materials based on real-time market demands.
Over the years, our company has grown from representing materials, to developing our own material and component product ranges like AX® Materials and INSITE® Insoles. While we are no longer a representative agency, we embrace and embody our roots through continued partnerships in Asia and beyond.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The footwear, glove, and apparel industries are undergoing one of the greatest transformations in their collective history. Every aspect of the materials, components, and supply chains are ripe for innovation to meet society’s new standards and demands. At Matmarket our goal is to nurture and bring new and emerging technologies to market quickly and globally.
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| Our latest material and component innovations leverage data and research to meet customer demands for comfort and sustainability: | ||
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| Our Contoura™ insole leverages data from 120,000 prescribed foot scans and the INSITE® patented algorithm to offer the ideal orthotic for support and relief. | Our AX® Suede RPET is a glove material made from post-recycled water bottles, using a water-based manufacturing process that eliminates the use of toxic solvents. One yard of AX Suede RPET represents 12 half-liter plastic water bottles removed from the environment. |
Our new INSITE® Research Lab underscores our dedication to using science to drive performance. Opening in Fall 2021, under the direction of Dr. Christine Pollard, PhD PT in partnership with Oregon State University, INSITE’s research lab will focus on developing comfort, endurance, balance and recovery data. |
COMMERCIALIZATION & SCALE
One of the strengths of Matmarket is our proven ability to commercialize high-performance products across global markets.
We have spent the past 20+ years building out a fully integrated supply chain network across Asia that serves our clients’ needs. With manufacturing locations in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, we continue to invest in hiring teams with deep manufacturing experience in key local markets.
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Our goal is to have teams in place with developed systems that address gaps in the supply chain process. Having reliable people in strategic locations has been critical for our growth as a company and for developing stronger partnerships with manufactures and brands.
Meticulous attention to our global supply chain, systems and operations means we can take a technology and plug it into our existing global supply chain and scale in a matter of months versus years. We have insight into and control of development from prototype to production.
Brands and retailers come to Matmarket, because they can rely on our operational systems and ability to meet changing compliance requirements. We hold ourselves and all partners to the same high standards of accountability, integrity, and reliability that the global consumer now requires of the footwear and apparel industry.
