News Update
October 24, 2014
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Pulcra Chemicals is a worldwide operating company with unique process and engineering knowledge and capability and more than 135 years experience in supplying innovative specialty chemicals to the fiber, textile, and leather industries. Our commitment is to our customer's success, which we support with product development, regulatory compliance, and sustainability. |
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The Kinston Free Press is covering an announced $30 million expansion in DuPont's Sorona polymer capacity at the Kinston plant in North Carolina;
Read press release here...
AKC Note: Sorona is a partly bio based polymer, formerly known as PTT, but now with its own generic name Triexta (March 2009). Sorona is the DuPont brand name. The polymer has had good success into carpets with Mohawk being the exclusive user of Sorona for residential carpet applications; it also has had some success into apparel end uses. Currently carpet is by far the largest application for the Sorona polymer shipped from Kinston.
Alasdair Carmichael
Carmichael International
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Synthetic Yarn and Fiber Association
To promote the production, improvement and use
of synthetic yarns and fibers
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