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 ...

Brain cancer researchers have provided chemical engineers with a biological enzyme that could be key to completing a more eco-friendly manufacturing process for nylon. The Duke University team used ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nylon is one of the most widely used engineering thermoplastics due to its excellent mechanical properties, such as high ...

Use of (not-so)-rare earth metals in large-scale manufacturing applications is expected to economize critical rare earth excavations. Just to be clear, not all rare earth metals are necessarily rare ...