Manufacturing Today Issue 206 Issue 206 Nov 2022 | Page 96

Fibers of the future

Through green initiatives , Fibrant promises a vibrant future for the nylon fiber industry

Fibrant commissioned its first factory in the Netherlands in 1952 as part of Nederlandse Staatsmijnen ( later : DSM ). The company is built on a rich history of craftmanship and boasts a global reach by means of its worldwide network . Its reliability in the manufacturing of high-end chemical products was one of the reasons for Highsun Holding

Group ( HSCC ) to acquire the company , besides its successful development of technologies to produce Caprolactam – of which the annual global demand currently sits at around five million tons .
Caprolactam is a key ingredient in the production of a wide range of plastic-based products . When polymerized , it produces Nylon 6 . In layman ’ s terms : polymerization
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