US Patent Issued to CAP III on Oct. 28 for "Process for the recovery of epsilon-caprolactam from polyamide 6 comprising fishing nets" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,508, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CAP III B.V. (Urmond, Netherlands).

"Process for the recovery of epsilon-caprolactam from polyamide 6 comprising fishing nets" was invented by Jasper Verduyckt (Urmond, Netherlands), Peter Roos (Urmond, Netherlands), Kate Emily Murphy (Urmond, Netherlands), Henricus Anna Christiaan Baur (Urmond, Netherlands), Wenjing Fu (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 Epsilon-caprolactam from polyamide 6 comprising fishing nets, wherein the plant comprises a depolymerizat...