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Materials
Evonik Advances New Nylon Route
by Michael McCoy
August 12, 2013
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 91, Issue 32
German chemical company Evonik Industries is using a biobased material to make a key polymer. In Slovenska Lupca, Slovakia, Evonik has begun operating a pilot plant to produce ω-amino lauric acid as a raw material for nylon 12 instead of butadiene-derived laurolactam. Palm oil is the starting material. For Evonik, the new route could help reduce its dependence on butadiene-based cyclododecatriene as a feedstock for laurolactam. A 2012 explosion at Evonik’s cyclododecatriene plant in Germany caused a global shortage of nylon 12.
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