KRONBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2003--BASF and Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese AG (NYSE:CZ) (FWB:CZZ), have reached an agreement under which BASF will acquire the ...

For decades, materials made of Nylon-6 have littered, entangled, and damaged ecosystems — and because this durable plastic does not breakdown for millenia, the situation continues to worsen.

Pretty much everything that doesn’t grow on trees has to be some kind of plastic, right? It seems like the world in the 21st ...

In the world of engineering polymers, nylon is in a class by itself. When designers want to replace a metal structural part with a plastic one, more often than not, nylon is the first polymer they ...

Nylons are commonly used in melt spinning for the production of apparel but have proven difficult to flame retard due to environmental and health concerns, in addition to adverse reactions that occur ...

Invista, the nylon, spandex, and polyester fiber business that Koch Industries purchased from DuPont in 2004, launched a new nylon 6,6 engineering polymers business at the NPE 2009 plastics trade show ...

Dow Chemical Co. and Solutia Inc. are ending their 31/2-year-old nylon marketing partnership, with each firm admitting the venture did not provide the rewards they had expected. The deal, launched in ...

DuPont Co. has filed an intellectual property lawsuit against Invista, the fibers business it sold to Koch Industries Inc. in 2004. In the suit — filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y. — ...

Found in fishing nets, carpet, clothing, Nylon-6 is a major contributor to plastic pollution, including ocean pollution. Now, chemists have developed a new catalyst that quickly, cleanly and ...