{"title":"Toray and Honda start jointly validating chemical nylon 6 recycling for automotive applications","authors":"","doi":"10.12968/s0306-3747(23)70179-6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"On September 19, Toray Industries, Inc., announced it signed an agreement with Honda Motor Co., Ltd., to jointly develop a chemical recycling technology for glass-fiber reinforced nylon 6 parts recovered from end-of-life vehicles. The two have begun verifying this technology, which entails depolymerizing with subcritical water and regenerating the materials as caprolactam, a raw monomer. Subcritical water is in a high-temperature, high-pressure state, just below the critical point of water (374°C, 22 megapascals). It differs from water at normal temperatures and pressures in several ways, such as by dissolving and hydrolyzing organic compounds.","PeriodicalId":100024,"journal":{"name":"Additives for Polymers","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Additives for Polymers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/s0306-3747(23)70179-6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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On September 19, Toray Industries, Inc., announced it signed an agreement with Honda Motor Co., Ltd., to jointly develop a chemical recycling technology for glass-fiber reinforced nylon 6 parts recovered from end-of-life vehicles. The two have begun verifying this technology, which entails depolymerizing with subcritical water and regenerating the materials as caprolactam, a raw monomer. Subcritical water is in a high-temperature, high-pressure state, just below the critical point of water (374°C, 22 megapascals). It differs from water at normal temperatures and pressures in several ways, such as by dissolving and hydrolyzing organic compounds.