US Patent Issued to CAP III B. V. on Oct. 7 for "Process for the recovery of epsilon-caprolactam from nylon 6 comprising fishing nets" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,041, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CAP III B. V. (Urmond, Netherlands).

"Process for the recovery of epsilon-caprolactam from nylon 6 comprising fishing nets" was invented by Jasper Verduyckt (Urmond, Netherlands), Marijke Hilde Leen Groothaert (Urmond, Netherlands), Niek Van Heijningen (Urmond, Netherlands), Jarno Martijn Westerhof (Urmond, Netherlands), Peter Roos (Urmond, Netherlands), Kate Emily Murphy (Urmond, Netherlands) and Johan Thomas Tinge (Urmond, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process and a plant for recovering purified F-caprolactam from nylon 6 comprising fishing nets, wh...