ATLANTA, Aug. 22, 2021 — Outdoor stadium seats, ski bindings, tire reinforcements and other products that require strength, durability and weather resistance are all made with a type of nylon called ...

Friedrichshafen, Germany — Ascend Performance Materials is working to alleviate a tight market for nylon 6/6 resin while it also introduced a new grade of the material at Fakuma 2018. "The market is ...

Since the first studies on the γ-phase of nylon 6 (polyamide-6, PA6), iodine doping of nylon 6 has been regarded as an effective procedure for the interconversion of hydrogen-bonded structures formed ...

On Aug. 22, 2015, a brand-new adiponitrile plant in the burgeoning Chinese chemical town of Huantai exploded, killing one person. Coming 10 days after an enormous chemical blast in Tianjin, China, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

India has started an anti-dumping probe into nylon-6 chips from China and Russia, prompted by domestic manufacturers' ...

Lower brittle temperature than Nylon 6 or Nylon 6/6. Lower water absorption than Nylon 6 or Nylon 6/6 (4% @ saturation). Stronger than Nylon 11, Nylon 12 or Nylon 6/12. Retains room temperature ...