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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: ECONYL nylon, fiber of carpets, nylon 6, nylon fibers, polypropylene, recycling carpets

In the beginning, Aquafil was sheering old carpets to recover only a small fraction of them to use in its process, but the company still hadn’t maximized the potential of recycling carpets. The last step was to build a recycling facility that could recover not only the face fiber of carpets but all the components of the carpets to put them back into production.

Related Keywords: nylon 6, nylon household carpets, nylon thread, textiles industry, Thermolite and Emana yarns, traditional fabric, yarn

Green Attitude project - On the eco-sustainability front, the Green Attitude project continues with the Zero Waste commitment – in warp seamless all the yarn is transformed into a product, whereas in traditional fabric the waste is somewhere between 15-30% – with an ever-increasing use of ecological and regenerated yarns, such as Econyl by Aquafil or Q-Nova by Fulgar.

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Invista has invested more than US$ 600 million in China to support the nylon market, including a 215,000-ton hexamethylenediamine (HMD) plant and the plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP), over the past five years. The company has also created multiple-generation improvements to the technology over the decades, recently setting production records with the placement of it’s latest technology in the US.

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: 6 resin, Ascend Performance Materials, Britannia Techno Polymer, engineering plastics manufacturing, engineering thermoplastics compounding, nylon 6, nylon compounds

The company is an engineering thermoplastics compounding and tolling company specializing in the production of proprietary nylon compounds. It’s certifications include ISO 9001 and TS 16949. BTP was founded in 2006 by Andrew Leigh. The acquisition provides Ascend with a leading engineering plastics manufacturing base in Europe and an expansion to its growing portfolio of proprietary compounds.

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 fiber;fiber production equipment, airbags, industrial sewing threads, nylon 6, solution dyeing

INVISTA plans to expand its capacity of Nylon 6,6 fiber used in a diverse range of applications for which it would be investing over $65MM in state-of-the-art fiber production equipment at its US based Camden, SC facility.

Related Keywords: biomaterials business, carpets, Dupont, DuPont Sorona, fiber applications, home furnishings, Kinston facility, nylon 6, polymer plant, Sorona

DuPont plans to invest $30 million over the next three years and create 18 new jobs at its facility in Kinston, N.C. The company’s Kinston site produces DuPont Sorona renewably sourced polymer.

Sorona is made in part from annually renewable plant-based ingredients and is used primarily in fiber applications, including textiles used in apparel, home furnishings, and for carpets, including residential, commercial and automotive carpets and mats.