HOUSTON, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascend Performance Materials, the largest fully integrated producer of nylon 6,6, announced another round of global price increases on its polyamide polymers, ...

Toray Industries, Inc., announced it signed an agreement with Honda Motor Co., Ltd., to jointly develop a chemical recycling technology for glass-fiber reinforced nylon 6 parts recovered from ...

WICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INVISTA has several patents pending on a new nylon 12 monomer technology, which the global polymer company will soon produce at pilot scale. The new technology would ...

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Tao and Prof. LI Ning from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has synthesized renewable nylon monomers with ...

Many people are familiar with the haunting images of wildlife — including sea turtles, dolphins and seals — tangled in abandoned fishing nets. The main issue behind Nylon-6, the plastic inside these ...

Nylon-6 is a tough, non-biodegradable plastic that cannot be recycled by conventional methods. A new way has now been introduced by a team from the USA in the journal Angewandte Chemie: with an easily ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been employed to reinforce semicrystalline polymers, leading to a new class of material called polymer nanocomposites. 1 The use of CNTs in polymer matrices promotes an ...

The direct preparation of polyimide belts from nylon salt-type monomer solution by rotational molding was examined in order to mold the polyimide belts efficiently. The polyimide seamless belts could ...