What is polyester fiber made of?
Polyester fiber takes PET plastic directly. Trace them back and you pass 10 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
How polyester fiber is made What is made from it See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Natural gas through PET plastic, ethylene
- Water through PET plastic, ethylene glycol
- Crude oil through PET plastic, ethylene, naphtha
- Air through PET plastic, ethylene glycol, oxygen gas
- Corn through PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Limestone through PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses