Plastic Building Materials

Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT, is commercializing MIT research to turn plastic waste into durable parts for buildings and other infrastructure. The company has developed an AI-powered robotic manufacturing platform capable of turning single-use plastics into resilient building materials, addressing both the global shortage of housing and the buildup of plastic waste with a single solution.

The company emerged from MIT HAUS, a research effort in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, and uses waterless plastic recycling along with large-scale composite additive manufacturing to make components such as home foundations, decks, and trusses for walls, floors, and roofs. Single-use plastic from water bottles and other objects is shredded, melted, and fused with American-made fiberglass to make it stronger than wood before a large-scale 3D printer creates the parts.

Atlas parts are already being used to support barns, sheds, decks, and docks, and the company recently supplied the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with American-made recycled composite trusses to construct a 40-foot bridge in a Massachusetts wetland. MIT research has shown that large composite trusses can be printed in under 13 minutes and support more than 4,000 pounds, exceeding key building standards.

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• Greenfuels (Germany)
• Independent Oil Producer (Thailand)
• KleanFuels (Canada)
• Low-Carbon Marine Fuel (Malta)
• Recycled PP Speakers (Japan)
• Plastics-to-Energy (USA)
• SPR (Japan)

Turn Plastic Waste into Valuable Products

Atlas Building Composites is turning single-use plastic into materials stronger than wood, already supplying trusses for a 40-foot bridge.

Klean Industries’ plastic-pyrolysis and tire-pyrolysis technology operates across Germany, Canada, the USA, Malta, Thailand, and Japan, including its Greenfuels plastic-pyrolysis project in Germany.

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