Created: 2020-01-15
Updated: 2022-09-25
Service - Braskem Recycler
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Additive Manufacturing (3D printing)
Material Recycling
- Status
- 2) Demonstrated
- First launch
- 2019
- Partners
- Made In Space
Made in Space developed the recycler through a partnership with Braskem, a Brazil-based company that is America’s largest thermoplastic resin producer. Braskem’s Green Plastic, a bio-based resin made from sugar cane, has been used in Made in Space’s 3D printer aboard the station for the printing of tools and spare parts.
The Recycler will complete the plastic sustainability lifecycle on-orbit by providing astronauts the ability to convert plastic packaging and trash as well as objects previously fabricated by the 3D printer into feedstock to be reused by the printer,” the company said on its website. “It will facilitate the reusability of materials to solve new problems as they arise whether on the International Space Station or in future manned space exploration missions.
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