Recycled carbon fibers are processed by rotational tumbling in a mixture with binder material to prepare fiber-containing particles having a dual-tapered shape and general alignment of fibers with a longitudinal direction of the particles. Bulk products including such fiber-containing particles are compounded with polymer and pelletized to prepare fiber-reinforced composite pellets, which are useful for applications such as injection molding to prepare molded products of carbon fiber-reinforced composite material with recycled carbon fibers.

A nonlimiting example method of forming polyamide polymer particles having pigments therein may comprising: mixing a mixture comprising a polyamide having a pigment pendent from a backbone of the polyamide (PP-polyamide), a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the PP-polyamide, and optionally an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the PP-polyamide and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the PP-polyamide in the carrier fluid; and cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature of the PP-polyamide to form solidified particles comprising the PP-polyamide and, when present, the emulsion stabilizer associated with an outer surface of the solidified particles. Said solidified particles may be used in additive manufacturing to make a variety of objects like containers, toys, furniture parts and decorative home goods, plastic gears, automotive parts, medical items, and the like.

It is provided that a biaxially stretched polyamide film that has excellent resistance to pinhole formation due to bending, has excellent resistance to pinhole formation due to repeated contact, has excellent piercing resistance, and further can suppress generation of foreign matter during film formation. A biaxially stretched polyimide film comprising a functional layer (layer B) laminated on at least one surface of a base layer (layer A), wherein the base layer (layer A) contains at least (a) 70 to 99% by mass of a polyamide 6 resin, and (b) 1 to 20% by mass of an aliphatic or aromatic-aliphatic polyester resin, and the functional layer (layer B) contains at least 70% by mass or more of a polyamide 6 resin.

Embodiments relate to a polyamide-based film that is colorless and transparent, is excellent in mechanical properties and optical properties, has a wide angle of view by securing at least a certain level of luminance at various angles, and, in particular, has gloss characteristics similar to those of glass, a process for preparing the same, and a cover window comprising the same. The polyamide-based film comprises a polyamide-based polymer, wherein when the polyamide-based film is placed on a surface light source, light is irradiated from the surface light source, and the luminance value (L.sub.0) measured in the normal direction of the surface light source is 100%, the luminance value (L.sub.50) measured in the direction of 50° from the normal direction of the surface light source is 25% or more.

A copolyamide composition comprising a statistical copolyamide containing 70-99 wt % of diamine and dicarboxylic acid repeat units and 1-30 wt % of lactam or AA-BB repeat units, whereby incorporation of the comonomer lactam or AA-BB unit reduces the crystallization rate (longer crystallization times) while maintaining (1) high melting point, (2) low potential plate out, (3) low oxygen permeation, (4) high tensile strength and (5) puncture/tear resistance.

The invention relates to a 3D printable powder composition comprising a polyamide and less than 5 wt % by weight of at least one filler. The invention also relates to the process for preparing the 3D printable powder, and its use for the preparation of a 3D printed article.

Spent polyamides are returned to the value chain by hydrogenating the spent polyamide in a hydrogen atmosphere in the presence of at least one homogeneous transition metal catalyst complex, wherein the transition metal is selected from metals of groups 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the periodic table of elements according to IUPAC, to obtain a polyamine and a polyol. The hydrogenation is carried out at a reaction temperature of at least 160° C. in a non-reducible solvent having a dipole moment in the range of 1.Math.10.sup.−30 to 10.Math.10.sup.−30 C.Math.m.

The present invention provides a process for preparing an improved compounded product and a compounded product prepared by that process.

A method for manufacturing at least one impregnated fibrous material including a fibrous material made of continuous fibers and at least one thermoplastic polymer, the method including a step of impregnating the at least one fibrous material in a pultrusion head by injecting a reactive composition in the melt state including at least one precursor of the thermoplastic polymer in the presence of the fibrous material, the at least one fibrous material on entry into the pultrusion head being divided in its thickness into layers, with each layer circulating in its own channel within the pultrusion head, the reactive composition being injected into each channel and/or between the layers when they are recombined at the exit from each channel, the channel being heated, in which the precursors of the thermoplastic polymer are at least partly polymerized.

The invention concerns a removable composition formed by at least: a polyamide or a copolyamide or a mixture of polyamides or a mixture of copolyamides or a mixture of at least one polyamide and at least one copolyamide, the polyamide(s) and copolyamide(s) being soluble in alcohol, and an expansion agent, the maximum expansion temperature of which is greater than the melting point of the polyamide or the copolyamide or of the mixture. The invention also relates to assemblies comprising such a composition, the use thereof and a method for detaching the composition.