The polyester polymerization rate hit yearly high at 93.4% in early-November but has fallen to 92.7% last week after two units had turnaround or cut production. Market players seemed to see turning ...

A puffer jacket is constructed with an outer fabric, often polyester or another synthetic fiber, and inner insulation held in ...

Performance materials company Teijin Frontier has created a new insulation fiber as an alternative to natural feather fill.

One of them is SOLOTEX™ OCTAIR™, an insulation material that incorporates polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) fibers along ...

A study found that bio-based fibers, specifically viscose and lyocell, caused higher mortality rates in earthworms compared ...

As Americans go to the polls, some voters may — for whatever reason — decide they don't want to vote in every single race or on every initiative. Voting in some races, but not all, is called ...

To address that, a new study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology tested the effects of conventional polyester fibres and two bio-based fibres –viscose and lyocell – on ...

“The people that I find most loathsome, and the wormiest, slimiest people in this, is what I call the truth-teller caucus,” Carville said Friday in a video for Politicon. “They’re the people … ...

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After all, not much can beat homemade ravioli recipes in the cooler months. But are you familiar with its other filled-pasta cousins? Agnolotti are Piedmont’s oblong answer to ravioli, while ...