Teijin Limited

Teijin Fibers Limited

Masanori Miyamoto

Kazuhiro Sato

Kenji Ishida

Minoru Nakashima

Kenichi Ishihara

Hideshi Kurihara

Kazumasa Mizuno

Hideo Hasegawa

Hiroshi Horiuti

Taizo Mori

Nobuya Okumura

A recycling method which comprises constructing a membership computer system comprising appending to products identification displays showing that the products satisfy the standards for products scarcely giving loads to environments, easily recyclable products, highly healthy and safe products, or the like, connecting members comprising the producers A of the products to which the identification displays can be appended, product seller B, purchasers or consumers C, waste-collecting members D, collected commodity-transporting members E, and intermediate raw material producers F to an information network manager G through an information network, and totally monitoring and managing the production of the products, sales, wastes and the production of the intermediate raw materials by the information network manager G, and recycling the used products as wastes to the intermediate raw materials for producing the products, and by which the products can be produced with reduced energy, and the system thereof.

Recycle method and system thereof

A dimethyl terephthalate composition includes 0.001 to 200 ppm of methyl 4-(1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)benzoate and 0 to 1 ppm of dimethyl hydroxyterephthalate contained in dimethyl terephthalate, and exhibits improved properties as a material for producing polyester.

Dimethyl terephthalate composition and process for producing the same

For separation and recovery of dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and ethyiene glycol (EG) from polyester waste containing foreign materials, the polyester waste is treated in EG containing a polyester depolymerization catalyst, a solid foreign material fraction floated on the surface of the resultant reaction solution is removed and the residual solid foreign material fraction is removed from the remaining solution fraction. The remaining solution fraction is distilled and concentrated and the distilled EG is recovered. A transesterification reaction catalyst and methanol are mixed into the distillation residue. The resultant reaction mixture is recrystallized and subjected to centrifugal separation to separate the reaction mixture into the DMT cake and a mixture solution, and then the cake is distilled whereby high-purity DMT is recovered. The residual mixture solution is subjected to distillation treatment for recovery of the methanol, and the distillation residue is distilled to recover EG.

Method for separating and recovering dimethyl terephthalate and ethylene glycol from polyester waste

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Matsuyama, Japan

Masanori Miyamoto