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 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 ...

Invista and its partner, Solvay, will deploy new technology for nylon expected to substantially improve the production process. The new technology, Invista’s most advanced adiponitrile, or ADN, ...

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 ...

The quest for synthetic silk led to the creation of nylon, the versatile engineering resin that's celebrating its 75th birthday this year. DuPont Co. began commercial production of nylon 6/6 fiber on ...

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 ...