Several months ago, Felipe Berer’s longtime plastics manufacturing client came to him with a rough draft of a marketing plan for what turned out to be the most fascinating—and geographically far-flung—deal Berer has worked on in his 15-year career.
Brazilian-based Braskem, known for making resins found in plastics for food containers, wanted to take its bio-friendly Green Polyethylene to atmospheric proportions. When it dropped a broad outline of an agreement off to Berer at Akerman, Braskem had what was the makings of a deal with Made in Space to help create the first products created in space via 3-D printing with sustainable materials.
