SABIC Showcases at Techtextil Show Broad Portfolio of High-Performance Materials for Customers’ Most Demanding Textile Applications

Published Apr 24, 2012

ATLANTA — April 24, 2012 — SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business is showcasing here at Techtextil North America (booth #1950) its broad, deep and growing portfolio of high-performance materials for the technical textiles and nonwovens industries. These high-tech solutions, based on SABIC’s world-renowned Ultem*, Valox*, Lexan*, and Noryl* resins, greatly expand performance, processing and aesthetic options for customer textile applications with properties ranging from outstanding heat and chemical resistance and colorfastness to exceptional loft and light weight. The SABIC materials also help customers comply with regulatory mandates, provide greater end-product differentiation and give textile manufacturers, fiber converters and OEMs the ability to enhance existing product lines and/or expand into new performance fiber and fabric markets. These thermoplastic-based technologies further underscore SABIC’s proactive approach to meeting the changing needs of its customers and spotlight the company’s role as a leading supplier to the textile and fiber industries of some of the most advanced cutting-edge products on the market today.