Cooldown ° Earth welcomes NRW funding for Matterr

The non-profit Cooldown ° Earth Foundation congratulates its portfolio company Matterr on the funding commitment of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the EFRE/JTF program “Productive.NRW”. Minister of Economic and Climate Protection Mona Neubaur handed over the funding notice on August 6th in Düsseldorf.

In order to avoid exporting waste from industrialized countries, which is currently particularly stressing the poorest countries in the world, Matterr has developed a globally patented solution that can repeatedly re -convert in high -quality raw material.

With the funding, Matterr can accelerate the structure of his second facility, now on a small industrial scale. The technological core is that Depolymerisation From PET under mild conditions. So can be Mixing waste How multi -layer packaging or textile mixture tissue replace them again into their primary components and replace fossil raw materials to a large extent by attributing the process on a monomeric basis in primary material quality, it enables molecular upcycling: from polyester textiles that have so far only been recycled for inferior applications – not just new textiles, but even new textiles, but even Packaging that are approved for food contact.

“This is a unique partnership”, Said Founds Wolfgang K. Hoever. “A non-profit foundation is going on, the country is following-in the end there is infrastructure, which makes a circular Greentech product from difficult to use. This is great for climate protection and location.”

The support commitment to Matterr is not just the first from this funding program, it is with 30 million ꞓ, also the highest possible funding amount of this funding program. One is planned NRW system With target start 2027 and an annual capacity of 10,000 tons.

Cooldown ° Earth is not a recipient of the funding, but early investor and possibly maker. Potential yields from the participation flow back into non-profit climate and environmental protection projects according to the articles of association.

background

• The state of North Rhine -Westphalia and the EU promote productive. The first notices went to Matterr (“Revolpet facility”) and Greenlyte. Minister Neubaur emphasized the triple benefits for the climate, jobs and innovative strength. (Press information from the state of North Rhine -Westphalia)
• In his communication, Matterr describes the funding amount, the schedule and the procedure; The system replaces fossil PET pre-products with a recyclate in primary material quality. (Presseinformation matterr)

About Cooldown ° Earth:

Die cooldown°earth foundation is a private, non -profit foundation based in Krefeld. In 2013 she was by Dr. Annekathrin Edelmann and Wolfgang K. Hoever founded to promote social cohesion and climate protection. Your projects include Digital climate schoolthe schools supports education for sustainable development into class. The foundation promotes the establishment of competencies for the use of new technologies in the service of sustainability and strengthens motivation for gentle use of nature’s resources. www.cooldown.earth