Nylon is one of the world’s most widely used synthetic materials, but producing it ...

Growing market demand for nylon 6,6 resin is the driver behind plans by Ascend Performance Materials (Houston, TX) to increase production capacity across its intermediate chemicals and polymers ...

In T-shirts, stockings, shirts, and ropes—or as a component of parachutes and car tires—polyamides are used everywhere as synthetic fibers. At the end of the 1930s, the name Nylon was coined for such ...

Nylon can be found everywhere in modern life, from the clothes we wear to the seatbelts in our cars. The problem is that producing it can be a dirty business, but researchers say a new method can make ...

A team of researchers at NYU have presented a new chemical reactor type that synthesizes a precursor for nylon production through electrosynthesis, rather than a thermal based reaction. The need for ...

Just to be clear, not all rare earth metals are necessarily rare or difficult to obtain and process. Some can be as common as copper, while others have low accessibility or are tough to extract from ...

Materials firm Invista is adding space at its site in Lugoff, S.C., as it transitions nylon 6/6 resin made there from internal use to commercial sales. "As demand for nylon 6/6 materials continues to ...

GPA, the association of French automotive plastic parts suppliers, has warned of an impending global crisis due to the shortage of key nylon materials. In a Friday statement, the GPA said the ongoing ...

In T-shirts, stockings, shirts, and ropes – or as a component of parachutes and car tyres – polyamides are used everywhere as synthetic fibres. At the end of the 1930s, the name Nylon was coined for ...