Provided are: a high-melting-point resin fiber having heat resistance and solvent resistance, offering excellent workability/formability, and having a diameter of 4 μm or less; and a nonwoven fabric including the high-melting-point resin fiber. Also provided is a method for efficiently producing a high-melting-point resin fiber having a diameter of 4 μm or less, via laser melt electrospinning. The high-melting-point resin fiber according to the present invention includes a resin having a melting point of 250° C. or higher and has a diameter of 4 μm or less. In the high-melting-point resin fiber, the resin having a melting point of 250° C. or higher is preferably a PEEK. The fiber preferably has a degree of crystallinity of 30% or less.

A method for producing a fiber preform or semi-finished textile product comprises providing a fiber preform or semi-finished textile product comprising at least one thermoplastic fiber. The thermoplastic fiber has a core constructed of a first material, a shell constructed of a second material positioned to surround the core, and magnetic particles that are one of mainly arranged in the shell, almost exclusively arranged in the shell, and exclusively arranged in the shell. Continually adding the fiber preform or semi-finished textile product with simultaneous heating thereof in continuous passing through or passing by a magnetic induction heating device or the same by way of a relative movement. Fixing the fiber preform or semi-finished textile product by allowing the fiber preform or semi-finished textile product to rigidify.

The present disclosure provides a process for producing a polymer, said process comprising polymerising a monomer system comprising a compound of formula: Ar—O—Ar—C(═O)—X—C(═O)—Ar—O—Ar in a reaction medium comprising a Lewis acid where: X is an aliphatic moiety and Ar is an aromatic moiety.

Fibers, fabrics, mattresses and processes of making the fibers generally include a microencapsulated phase change material; and a polymer, wherein the microencapsulated phase change material is greater than 50 percent by weight of the fiber. The process for making the fibers is a dry jet/wet spinning process free of sonication.

A process for manufacturing a fiber including polyetherketoneketone including the steps of: mixing polyetherketoneketone and sulfuric acid having a concentration of at least 90 wt % to obtain a spin dope and passing the spin dope through a spinneret into a coagulation bath, wherein the polyetherketoneketone is dissolved in the sulfuric acid to a concentration of 12 to 22 wt %. Also disclosed are fibers obtainable by the process and polyetherketoneketone fibers having a sulfur content of 0.001 to 5 wt %, based on the weight of the fiber, in particular such fibers having low or high crystallinity, as well as, hybrid yarns and composite materials.

The present disclosure relates to a process for preparing a continuous fiber filament based on a) the spreading of the fiber tow, b) the impregnation of the fiber tow in an liquid medium, comprising polymer powder particles of a certain size comprising poly(aryl ether ketone), an aqueous solvent and at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkylphenoxy poly(ethyleneoxy) ethanol surfactants, c) the heating of the impregnated fiber above the melting temperature of the polymer and d) a step consisting in calendering the filaments using a die of cylindrical geometry. The present invention also relates to continuous fiber filament obtained from such process and to the use of the filaments for preparing three-dimensional objects.

A fused filament fabrication filament, method and process, for layer-wise formation of a component, wherein the filament, method and process comprise feedstock material comprising a polyaryletherketone, PAEK and optionally, one or more filler means.

A polyarylene ether copolymer comprising i) at least one block comprising in polymerized form A) isosorbide, isomannide, isoidide or a mixture thereof and B) at least one unit comprising at least one difunctional compound comprising at least one dichlorodiaryl sulfone, a dichlorodiaryl ketone or a mixture thereof and ii) at least one block comprising in polymerized form C) at least one polyalkylene oxide, a process for its preparation and its use in the preparation of coatings, films, fibers, foams, membranes or molded articles.

Stretched filaments based on aromatic polyethers, wherein the filaments have been stretched at a temperature between glass transition temperature and melting point and wherein the filaments are cooled down to below the glass transition temperature under full tensile load and a process for production thereof and use thereof.

A resin powder for solid freeform fabrication includes a particle having a pillar-like form, wherein the ratio of the height of the particle to the diameter or the long side of the bottom of the particle is 0.5 to 2.0, the particle has a 50 percent cumulative volume particle diameter of from 5 to 200 μm, and the ratio (Mv/Mn) of the volume average particle diameter (Mv) to the number average particle diameter (Mn) of the particle is 2.00 or less.