Progress is being made on “bio-nylon” — produced by Italian nylon yarn firm Aquafil and California-based biotechnology company Genomatica. Since announcing their multiyear agreement two years ago and ...

The global dominance of fossil-based synthetics-what the European Commission found commanded 67 percent of the world's textile fiber production in 2023 and contributes to the 90-odd million tons of ...

On Feb. 11, Invista opened its $13 million Texas Technology Center in Katy, Texas, near Houston. Officials said the center is a technology hub and research and development center that will support the ...

WICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INVISTA has several patents pending on a new nylon 12 monomer technology, which the global polymer company will soon produce at pilot scale. The new technology would ...

RMIT University researchers have developed a flexible nylon-film device that generates electricity from compression and keeps working even after being run over by a car multiple times, opening the ...

For the first time, scientists successfully genetically engineered microbes to produce a strong, flexible plastic akin to nylon, according to a recent report in Nature Chemical Biology. On the heels ...

At this year’s Outdoor Retailer winter show, Bemis Associates showed off a new advancement in nylon-bonding technology that it’s calling Nylock. A new fabric adhesive and film technology, Nylock aims ...