Disclosed herein are a ceramic plate to which an industrial fiber is attached to one surface thereof in order to reinforce the strength of a material and a refrigerator including the same. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a ceramic plate includes a porous ceramic substrate, an adhesive layer bonded to one surface of the porous ceramic substrate, and a reinforcement material layer bonded on the adhesive layer and formed of a fabric woven from at least one industrial fiber selected from the group consisting of an aramid fiber and a carbon fiber.

A coated yarn has a yarn core and a coating disposed coaxially on the yarn core. This coating contains: (i) porous particles present in an amount of at least 4 weight % and up to and including 20 weight %, each porous particle comprising a continuous polymeric phase and discrete pores dispersed within the continuous polymeric phase, having a mode particle size of 2-50 μm and up to and including 50 μm; (ii) a film-forming binder material having a T.sub.g of less than or equal to 25° C., which is present in an amount of 40-90 weight %; and (iii) an inorganic filler material having a value of less than 5 on the MOHS scale of mineral hardness, which inorganic filler material is present in an amount of 4 weight % and up to and including 30 weight %.

A method includes charging PET bottle flakes having particular characteristics as a raw material into a crystallizer to generate a crystalline version thereof, drying the crystalline version with dehumidified air at a temperature of 160-180° C. and with a dew point of −40° C. to bring down a moisture level thereof below 100 ppm, melting the dried crystalline version through an extruder configured to have a temperature therein maintained at 285-295° C., and feeding the melted raw material into a spin beam. The method also includes generating, through a spinneret, a number of filaments based on extruding, through the spinneret, the melted raw material fed into the spin beam, forming a yarn based on combining the number of filaments, and winding the formed yarn to generate a spool of Partially Oriented Yarn (POY) configured to be utilized as another raw material to generate a Draw Texturized Yarn (DTY).

An inorganic fiber sizing agent that contains at least one carbon nanostructure selected from the group consisting of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers, a resin, and a surfactant. If the total content of a nonvolatile content of the resin and the surfactant is taken as 100 parts by mass, the inorganic fiber sizing agent contains the surfactant at a ratio of 2 to 50 parts by mass.

The invention relates to a method for producing a multicomponent fiber, wherein the fiber is formed from a plurality of filaments, where the filaments each have a core and a thermoplastic sheath, and where the sheath is generated during the production of the filaments by in situ polymerization of monomers or oligomers of the thermoplastic on the surface of the core, and also to multicomponent fibers produced accordingly and to organosheets produced therefrom.

The present invention aims to provide a fiber sizing agent composition capable of providing high adhesion between fibers and a matrix resin, and also capable of forming fiber bundles with high sizing properties and reduced fluffing. A fiber sizing agent composition (C) of the present invention contains an epoxy resin (A) having an aromatic ring and not having a (meth)acryloyl group, and a (meth)acrylate (B).

A thermal-moisture comfortable polyester FDY for summer use and a preparation method thereof are provided. The FDY is made of matting agents dispersed polyester via the steps of spinning melt metering, extruding via the compositional spinneret, cooling, oiling, drawing, heat setting and winding. The woven fabrics manufactured with the FDY possess a wicking height and an evaporation rate of larger than or equal to 135 mm and 0.22 g/h, respectively. The compositional spinneret is simultaneously provided with cruciform orifices and circular orifices, and the length ratio of cruciform orifice to circular orifice is equal to the product of their equivalent diameter ratio and a coefficient K, here equivalent diameter is the ratio of orifice cross-section area to its circumference and K ranges from 0.97 to 1.03, and the oiling involves the oiling agent containing 67.30-85.58 wt % of crown ether.

The problem addressed by the present invention is to provide yarn, which includes an ultrafine filament, and that has superior handling properties, elongation and contraction properties, and with which a fabric and a fiber product of high quality can be obtained, a fabric using this yarn, and a fiber product using this yarn or fabric. The solution is imparting a binder to yarn that includes a filament A-1 with a single fiber diameter of 10 to 3000 nm and a fiber A-2 with a single fiber diameter greater than the filament A-1, and obtaining a fabric or fiber product using the yarn as necessary.

An object of the present invention is to provide a sizing agent composition that gives a carbon fiber from which a carbon fiber-reinforced composite material having excellent adhesion between a resin and the carbon fiber and having excellent mechanical properties can be formed. The sizing agent composition of the invention is a sizing agent composition comprising (A) a blocked isocyanate, and (B) a compound containing at least one polar group and at least one unsaturated group per molecule. In the invention, the mixing ratio (mass ratio) of the blocked isocyanate (A) and the compound (B) containing at least one polar group and at least one unsaturated group per molecule (A/B) is preferably 95/5 to 5/95. In the invention, the blocked isocyanate (A) is preferably a compound having an aliphatic skeleton.

Described is method for the sanitizing treatment of a textile product comprising a step of providing a textile product, a step of washing said textile product and a subsequent sanitizing treatment step, said sanitizing treatment step comprising the application on said textile product of a mixture based on methylisothiazolinone (MIT) and methylchloroisothiazolinone (CIT) and water.