The company notes that tighter recycling regulations for automotive and other plastics in Japan have made it mandatory to collect used nylon 66-based airbags, making it a “promising material” for ...

Adiponitrile has always been a bottleneck for the nylon 6,6 business because only three firms—Ascend Performance Materials, Invista, and Butachimie—make the chemical at large scale.

Remington made the lever-action Nylon 76 between 1962 and 1965 and the magazine-fed Nylon 77 from 1970 to 1972. The Nylon 66 became Remington’s most successful .22-caliber rifle. Production ...

HOUSTON—Brendan Dooley has braved the nylon 6/6 market and lived to tell the tale. The IHS Markit analyst commented on the market for that hard-to-find resin as well as other engineering resins at ...

The two US suppliers produce adiponitrile, the front-end material for nylon 66, with an estimated combined market share of over 60 percent. This has led to extremely tight supply of nylon 66, ...

Philadelphia — Ascend Performance Materials has achieved full chemical recycling of nylon 6/6 materials. Ascend reached that milestone in mid-2024 at its production site in Pensacola, Fla ...

In February 2024, the partnership announced the world’s first enzymatically recycled nylon 66 product created from Lululemon nylon products mixed with other non-textile materials to create high ...

Nylon 6,6 is one of the two most common types of nylon used for textiles and plastics, and one used in many lululemon performance-gear products. Today, recycled nylon is generally made from ...

In addition to nylon 6/6, Ascend is converting used cooking oil into acrylonitrile, hexamethylene diamine (HMD) and adipic acid. The new materials are part of the firm's Bioserve-brand portfolio.