Ever wonder how your favorite fleece jacket or cozy blanket came to be? If you’ve purchased any clothing within the past decade, it’s likely that you’ve stumbled upon at least one garment made from ...

Dubai A clothing manufacturer who relies on discarded plastic bottles for his fabric is hopeful that Dubai’s addiction to bottled water could help him set up roots in the UAE. It takes about three ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Adidas will launch new fabrics made from recycled polyester and marine plastic waste and expand the product lines that use them after the success of shoes made with the Parley for ...

Of all the major types of materials used today, plastics are one of the fastest-growing categories and offer the greatest opportunity for innovation. Decades of development towards improving the ...

Substantial efforts are being made to advance recycling technologies, transforming discarded plastics into raw materials that can be reused. Chemical recycling emerges as a major frontier in this ...

Researchers take an important step towards the production of fully biobased, rigid polyesters. They present a simple, yet innovative, synthesis strategy to overcome the inherently low reactivity of ...

Unlike standard mechanical recycling, which “downcycles” plastic into a lower-quality material, the enzymatic process makes it possible to recycle a bottle into a material that’s equal in quality to ...

Plastics are made of long chains of one or several chemical basic modules, so-called monomers. Plastics distinguished by high crystallinity and water repellency, therefore mechanically highly ...

PITTSBURGH — Bayer MaterialScience LLC has agreed to sell its global powder polyester resins business and its U.S.-based liquid polyester resins merchant business to Stepan Co. The deal is scheduled ...