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New nylon 6.6 recycling process

22/05/2025

Japanese group Toray Industries has announced having successfully depolymerised polyamide 6.6 using subcritical water that works in minutes and recovers the materials two monomer building blocks. Subcritical water, it said, is water in a state of high temperature and high pressure, and in this form dissolves and hydrolyses organic compounds. The ...

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