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Nylon · Carothers’ Polyamid: Strümpfe, Reifencord, Kletterseil, Schmelztropfen.

Making Nylon is a chain: feedstock, conversion (DuPont 1935–38), forming, heat, finish, install.

Skip a step and the properties chapter is describing a different object.

Prozessschritte

01 Feedstock

Ore, monomer, fibre, mineral or scrap that can legally become Nylon.

02 Conversion

DuPont 1935–38

03 Forming

Cast, spin, weave, sinter, foam, laminate or coat — the step that sets anisotropy.

04 Heat / cure

Temper, vulcanise, calcine or dry: skip it and the datasheet is fiction.

05 Finish

Coatings, sizings, facers, galvanizing, anodising, painting.

06 Install

Fasteners, adhesives, DFT, compression, dryness — site quality is a material property.

Routen

Primary

Virgin route around United States.

Recycled / secondary

Recycling exists but quality or energy often disappoints.

Specialty

High-spec grades leave the commodity mill.

Site-applied

Coatings, sprays, casts — the factory is sometimes a jobsite.

Diagramme

Nylon process path

Feedstock to installed product.

  1. Feed — in
  2. Convert — mill
  3. Form — shape
  4. Finish — coat
  5. Install — out
  6. Spec — code
  7. Scrap loop — rec

Nylon heat & fire

Energy in, class out.

  1. Heat — in
  2. Nylon — mat
  3. λ / char — out
  4. Ignition — fire
  5. Euroclass — class
  6. Assembly — sys

Harte Grenzen

Envelope

Melting/softening PA6 ~220 °C; PA66 ~260 °C; conductivity low.

Environment

Moisture, UV, chlorides, alkalis or oxygen — pick the one that actually kills Nylon.

Code

Fire class combustible, melt-drip is a starting letter, not a wall rating.

Process energy and scrap quality belong in the carbon passport, not in a footnote.

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