TEXTILE POLYMERS P L A N T S
  Polymers are used throughout the world for textile applications. Development of the markets constantly gives rise to new applications. We offer solutions for these applications with our continuous and discontinuous processes suited for the most diverse polymers.

In addition to plants for the production and further processing of polyester and polyamide, our principal portfolio also includes PEN (Polyethylene naphtalate) and copolymers, as well as polylactic acid and polycarbonate.

POLYESTERS
  Polyesters is a base product suited for the most manifold and varied fields of application. Be it textiles, our principal offers their customers the most innovative and economically mature processes.

PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) is the dominant polyester for textile applications.

PTT (Polytrimethylene terephthalate), an innovative polyester made from PTA (pure terepthalic acid) and propanediol (PDO), is now available in industrial scale and combines the outstanding properties of polyester and polyamides. Carpets made from PTT are resistant to staining and offer a high traffic resiliency. Textiles made from this fiber are characterized by a soft feel, excellent drape and comfortable stretch.

 
 
 
 
 
POLYAMIDE
  Synthetic polyamides are the oldest truly useful synthetic fibers and still today rank among the most important synthetic fibers in terms of volume. The main polyamides are polyamide 6.6 and polyamide 6. We offer our customers not only processes for their production but have also developed the corresponding recycling concepts.
 
 
STAPLE FIBERS
  Be it standard or specialty fibers - our principals know-how covers the most varied production processes for staple fibers. Staple fibers are first spun as endless fibers then stretched, curled and cut. Our principal know-how covers the manufacture of standard fiber types as well as specialties, such as deep dyeing, cationic dyeing, low pill, flame retardants, microfibers and hollow fibers, and spin-dyed fibers.
 
TEXTILE FILMENTS
  Be it direct or extruder spinning - our principal offers the technology and the corresponding know-how for the manufacture of textile filaments from a large number of base materials. Our principals modifiers in addition also help raise the production capacities of your existing plants. Our principal offer the complete process chain through to the production of the finished yarns.
 
INDUSTRIAL YARNS
  Processes for the manufacture of industrial yarns and tire cord round off our principals portfolio for the further processing of polymers. Industrial yarns and tire cord made from polyester of polyamides can be produced either from the polymer melt or from granulate. For the melt based method, a special reactor for highly viscous polymers is used.