Badminton rackets

When nylon is made in industry, it forms as a solid which is melted and forced through small holes (Figure 15.19). The long filaments cool and solid nylon fibres are produced which are stretched to align the polymer molecules and then dried. The resulting yarn can be woven into fabric to make shirts, ties, sheets and parachutes or turned into ropes or racket strings for tennis and badminton rackets. The annual worldwide production of nylon is expected to reach 6 million tonnes by 2015. 

Applications and uses automotive fuel lines, fluid transfer lines (brake, clutch, cooling), quick connectors, fittings, fasteners and clips, friction parts, pneumatic hoses, air lines, hydraulic hoses, oil and gas umbilical hoses, racket eyelets and bumpers, badminton shuttlecocks, ski top layers, shoes soles, and mechanical parts (footwear, rackets, ski industry). 

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