Started a non-space age game and when I tried making a simple mining outpost that would recycle non-rare iron I discovered that recyclers generate compressed iron plates from iron, but the assembler can't decompress it and not even the character can.
Looking at recipe book, it lists all assemblers and the character as being able to decompress, but I don't see the recipe anywhere.
Tried looking on the tech tree to see if I was missing any tech, there were no techs for the iron decompression.