Nylon 6 HS chip spot rose sharply amid rising raw material costs and risk aversion among polymerization plants, which offered aggressive quotes and controlled order volumes. Nylon 6 CS chip market ...

Struggling with debt and a market swamped with overcapacity, the nylon 6,6 producer Ascend Performance Materials has declared bankruptcy in Texas. Ascend says that it is pursuing an easy restructuring ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on February 22, 2024, that it received petitions requesting that caprolactam (89 Fed. Reg. 13400) and nylon 6 (89 Fed. Reg. 13399) be added to the list of ...

Ascend Performance Materials has begun production of nylon 6/6 resins and related feedstocks derived from used cooking oil. The resulting nylon 6/6 has a 25 percent lower carbon footprint than nylon 6 ...

The brand has partnered with Samsara Eco to extract nylon 6,6 from end-of-life textiles, demonstrating the potential to create a fully circular ecosystem for apparel. Nylon 6,6 is one of the two most ...

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 ...

Found in fishing nets, carpet, clothing, Nylon-6 is a major contributor to plastic pollution, including ocean pollution. Now, chemists have developed a new catalyst that quickly, cleanly and ...

Long-time collaborators Aquafil Holding S.p.A., based in Italy, and California biotechnology company Genomatica (Geno) have successfully completed the first demonstration scale production runs for ...

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