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Related Keywords: 6, apparel-focused fibers and brands, butanediol, fibers in your carpet, glycol (PTMEG), nylon, nylon 6, polyester, polymers and fibers, polyols, polytetramethylene

From the fibers in your carpet to the plastic in your automobiles, Invista’s commitment to continuous improvement has led its employees to develop some of the most durable, versatile polymers and fibers in the world. A subsidiary of Koch Industries since 2004, Invista brings to market the proprietary ingredients for nylon 6,6 and recognized brands including Stainmaster, Cordura and Antron. Invista also offers specialty chemical intermediates and process technologies.

Related Keywords: 6, adiponitrile, butadiene, fibres, hexamethylenediamine, hosiery, intimate apparel sectors, INVISTA, nylon 6, nylon market, polymer plant

INVISTA has invested more than $600 million in China to support the nylon market, including a 215,000-ton hexamethylenediamine (HMD) plant and a 150,000-ton polymer plant, at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP), over the past five years.

Invista has been meeting with customers and industry participants to grow a combined strategy concentrated on meeting China’s local needs for ADN, which is used to make nylon polymer, fibres and other specialty materials such as hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) for coatings.

Related Keywords: 44 chemicals, 6, Ascend Performance Materials, engineering plastics and compounding feedstock for other automotive applications, hexamethylene diamine, nylon 6, polymers

Ascend CEO McDivitt said that, “We have a large and growing business in nylon 6,6 and intermediates in Asia that has come from the development of strategic partnerships with Asian customers, and the confidence they have in our reliability which we have demonstrated over the last decade.” He added that, “As we have continued to invest in our business – in capacity and reliability – those investments have paid off in growing relationships.”

Related Keywords: 6, ACN, Assistant Professor Miguel Modestino and Sophia Haussener, developed a process that will lighten nylons environmental impact, drive electrochemical reduction of acrylonitrile, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, EPFL, existing precursors to Nylon 6, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, synthesized into hexanediamine, uses solar panels

NYU Tandon School of Engineering Assistant Professor Miguel Modestino and Sophia Haussener of the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a process they believe will lighten nylon’s environmental impact.

Their process uses solar panels to drive the electrochemical reduction of acrylonitrile (ACN), which can be derived from plant waste, to adiponitrile (ADN) and hydrogen. This in turn will be synthesized into hexanediamine (HDA), one of the existing precursors to Nylon 6,6.