DuPont Textile Legacy: Why the Company That Invented Nylon No Longer Owns It
Ask someone in the fabric trade where a stretch fiber came from, and “DuPont” comes up constantly often incorrectly, in the present tense. DuPont Textile built more foundational textile chemistry than almost any company in history, but a series of corporate divestitures over the last two decades means the company barely touches consumer fiber production […]
Sorona Fiber: The Plant-Based Polymer That Quietly Rewrote the Rules for Stretch Fabric
Most fibers on a garment tag are easy to place cotton grows in a field, nylon comes from petroleum, spandex is a lab creation from the 1950s. Sorona Fiber doesn’t fit neatly into either camp. It’s a synthetic fiber, but a meaningful share of its raw material comes from corn sugar instead of crude oil. […]