Materials & making
Glass bottles, plastic packaging, cardboard boxes and spent coffee arrive as ordinary operational waste. We keep that first state visible, because it makes the transformation into a useful object mean more.
Four incoming streams
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OBJECT01 / Bottles from bars, restaurants and rooms
A heavy, mineral-rich stream that can move from intact bottle to graded aggregate and a new architectural surface.
Can become: surfaces, tiles, table elements and future product trials
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OBJECT02 / Packaging, bottle caps and damaged fittings
A mixed visual language of colour and fleck, sorted into known polymers before it is shredded, pressed and machined.
Can become: chairs, stools, bedside tables and interior components
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OBJECT03 / Deliveries, packaging and egg cartons
A daily fibre stream, broken down and re-formed to explore tactile panels, moulded parts and non-structural objects.
Can become: moulded accessories, panels, packaging returns and ongoing trials
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OBJECT04 / Coffee bars, breakfast service and kitchens
Wet grounds become a dry, graded feedstock, then a dark speckled composite that can be printed and formed.
Can become: lighting, mirrors, small furniture and interior objects
COFFEE WASTE STREAM
Coffee grounds leave the machine at the end of service. Here they are collected, sterilised, mixed with bio PLA and turned into filament, then printed into objects that go back into use.
The complete loop
Find a consistent stream and understand what is really in it.
Clean, sort and prepare it as a controlled feedstock.
Let the material’s behaviour define the product brief.
Test the recipe, tooling, forming and finish.
Put the finished object back into everyday use.
Plan repair, separation and another material cycle.
A circular system
Conventional production begins by extracting material for a new product. MadeBy begins with a material already moving through a place, then asks what useful next job fits its real properties.
Start with value that already exists.
Keep streams clean and legible.
Sort, clean and create feedstock.
Match form to real properties.
Make through the right network.
Keep every object in circulation.
The manufacturing network
MadeBy’s strength is not manufacturing everything in-house. It is connecting designers, waste streams, material specialists and manufacturers into a coherent ecosystem. The recipe, tolerances and finish move with the material so an experiment can become a dependable part.
The material record
A MadeBy material record makes traceability useful, not decorative. It introduces the object, follows its material, records the recipe and gives the next owner a route to care, repair or return.
Name, purpose and intended setting.
Source stream and collection point.
Feedstock, carrier and separable parts.
Preparation, forming and finish record.
Care, repair and replacement guidance.
Reuse, return and next-life route.
