US Patent Issued to CAP III on Dec. 2 for "Process and plant for the production of Epsilon-Caprolactam and ammonium sulfate on industrial scale" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,225, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CAP III B.V. (El Urmond, Netherlands).

"Process and plant for the production of Epsilon-Caprolactam and ammonium sulfate on industrial scale" was invented by Johan Thomas Tinge (El Urmond, Netherlands), Peter Roos (El Urmond, Netherlands), Louise Annemarie Groot Zevert (El Urmond, Netherlands) and Anna Dite Cuiper (El Urmond, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a process and a plant for the production of Epsilon-caprolactam and crystalline ammonium sulfate in an industrial-scale plant, wherein the plant comprises a Beckmann rearrangement reaction section, an ammonium...