Wellman Fibers

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In the United States five manufacturers (out of 29) have over 80% of the productive capacity. These five large manufacturers include DAK Americas (plants in Leland, NC, and Moncks Corner, SC), Invista (plants in Salisbury, NC, Shelby, NC, Spartanburg, SC, Wilmington, NC), Nan Ya Plastics (plant in Lake City, SC), Unifi (plants in Kinston, NC and Yadkinville, NC), and Wellman Fibers (plant in Florence, SC). 

Poly(ethylene terephthalate), the predominant commercial polyester, has been sold under trademark names including Dacron (Du Pont), Terylene (ICI), Eortrel (Wellman), Trevira (Hoechst-Celanese), and others (17). Other commercially produced homopolyester textile fiber compositions iaclude p oly (1,4-cyc1 oh exa n e- dim ethyl en e terephthalate) [24936-69-4] (Kodel II, Eastman), poly(butylene terephthalate) [26062-94-2] (PBT) (Trevira, Hoechst-Celanese), and poly(ethylene 4-oxyben2oate) [25248-22-0] (A-Tell, Unitika). Other polyester homopolymer fibers available for specialty uses iaclude polyglycoHde [26124-68-5] polypivalolactone [24937-51-7] and polylactide [26100-51-6],... 

Fortrel (and related trade names) Polyester fiber Fiber/Wellman... 

A practicable reextrusion process was worked out and described by Syntex Chemie nearly forty 30 years ago [23]. This method—with some modifications—is still being used. The greatest recycler of fiber waste in the U.S. is Wellman they recover PET fiber and bottle waste for home furnishing and nonwoven materials by a similar method. 

The commercial production of polyamide fibers began in the late 1930s in the United States and Europe. They are now produced worldwide. Nylon fiber producers in the United States in 2004 include Fiber Innovation Technology, Inc., Honeywell Nylon Inc., Invista Inc. (formerly DuPont Textiles Interiors), Nylstar, Inc., Palmetto Synthetics, Polyamide High Performance, Inc. (formerly Acordis), Solutia Inc., Unifi-Sans Technical Fibers, LLC, Universal Fiber Systems LLC, and Wellman, Inc. 

Wellamid GF Polyamide-6 or polyamide-66 with glass fiber, PA-6, PA-66 Wellman Inc. 

Many plastics producers and consumer industry leaders have become involved in major recycling ventures Mobil, Du Pont, Amoco, Dow Chemical, Proctor Gamble, Heinz, Pillsbury, Beatrice, Campbell, Continental, and others. Certain companies have long been recycling, such as Wellman, Inc., of Shrewsbury, N.J., which is the largest U.S. recycler of postconsumer plastics and scrap plastic fibers. 

The rug originated from tri-lobal fibers manufactured by Wellman Inc., witnesses testified. 

Henry Poston, Wellman s director of technical services, said the fibers were, as far as he knew, unique. We know of no one else in the world who manufactured a fiber such as that, he said. 

When the Du Pont patents expired in 1974, he said, Wellman promptly dropped the unique fiber and began manufacturing regular tri-lobal fibers. 

It was Pratt who initially identified a fiber -presumably from one of the victims - as coming from the Wellman plant. But he admitted it was impossible to absolutely rule out that the fiber did not come from some exotic overseas source. 

The polyamide 6 is Ultramid B27 Irom BASF. The polyamide 66 is a fiber grade from Solutia Post-consumer polyamide earpets were obtained fiom Wellman, Inc after shredding and baling. 

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