Material Bank, the world’s largest marketplace for searching, sampling, and specifying architecture, design and construction materials, announced plans to launch in Japan in 2022. This will mark Material Bank’s first international rollout outside of North America.
The multi-billion-dollar design industry is one of the last to be digitally transformed and, after the platform’s explosive growth in the United States, there has been tremendous demand to export Material Bank globally. Material Bank’s powerful database, combined with its propriety robotic distribution facility, allows its almost 90,000 members to search materials from more than 450 brands all on a single site and order samples until midnight to be delivered free of charge anywhere in the country, in one box, the next morning. Much like in the United States, Material Bank Japan will significantly improve the sustainability of the design industry by reducing the number of inbound packages to firms and designers.