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Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace, providing the fastest and most sustainable way to search and sample materials. It simplifies the complex process of material search and sampling by enabling architecture and design professionals to search hundreds of thousands of materials such as paint, flooring, and textiles across hundreds of brands on a single site.

Streamlining the material sampling process, Material Bank focuses on the client and their needs through an expedited search and sampling system.

Architecture and design firms spend countless hours searching for the right textiles, flooring samples, paint options, and more. Through Material Bank's propriety database, the need for fumbling through large, clunky catalogues will cease to exist thanks to the company's powerful database and ultra-fast logistics hub. Having samples ready for next day presentations can make or break signing on a new client. With Material Bank's robotic distribution facility architects and design professionals can order samples until midnight (ET) to be delivered free of charge anywhere in the US, by 10:30 AM the next day. 

With the impending concerns of sustainability, Material Bank addresses this worry and invests in solutions to combat the excessive consumption and waste that comes with material sampling. By aggregating samples from multiple brands into a single box, Material Bank reduces the number of inbound packages to firms by over 70%. All unneeded samples ordered from Material Bank can be easily returned to one location, the logistics hub, at no cost. Samples are quality controlled and processed with the goal of reuse, not recycle.

Efficiency and optimization is key to how Material Bank supports design professionals with the ability to react and respond to the rapidly changing needs of the design industry. 

Since it was founded in 2019 Material Bank has positioned itself as a sought after resource for anyone in the architecture and design industry.  Well-positioned with its 35,000 (and growing) members and 240+ brand partners, their efforts towards changing the way design professionals work has made them an industry staple.