"A polyester reinforcement at the core with probably a polythene layer around that, " Garvey said.
It's made by wrapping plastic from recycled bottles around a polyester fiber and swaddling it all in cotton.
The flat devices are integrated with a polyester backing familiar from stick-on tattoos.
He was a senior on the college football team when he developed a prototype for a polyester-Lycra-blend T-shirt to keep him and his teammates dry.
In the 1980s, for example, he built a polyester plant with an annual capacity of 40, 000 tons at a time when that was equivalent to India's entire annual consumption.
There is a danger the polyester torchbearer uniform will make the individuals look like they are part of a government healthy-living initiative rather than amazing people that have been chosen for the once-in-a-lifetime experience of being an Olympic torchbearer.
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And now to a corner of Brooklyn, 30 years ago, when the movie Saturday Night Fever made disco mainstream, and John Travolta made polyester a fashion statement.
Children need to be shielded from inaccuracies emblazoned on casual attire, because little kids always believe what adults tell them, even if the information is communicated via a cotton-polyester mix.
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He wears gray polyester pants and a blue-and-white-checked shirt--short-sleeved and semitransparent so you can see his T shirt.
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Much has changed about man-made fabrics since John Waters used "polyester" as a metaphor for trashiness in his 1981 film by that name.
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DuPont predicts demand for Sorona, which turns out a soft and stretchy fabric like a cross between nylon and polyester, reaching 1 billion pounds or more by 2010.
But The Polyester Prince presents reams of information in a highly readable fashion.
Within a few months, Mr. Grahame-Smith completely restructured and rewrote the screenplay, injecting it with campy humor that plays up the film's absurd premise: Barnabas Collins, a vampire played by Mr. Depp, emerges from a coffin after 200 years to find himself in the polyester, lava-lamp world of 1972.
The typical surfboard is a slab of petroleum-spawned polyurethane slathered in layers of toxic polyester resin.
Also helping is a work force reduction, a debt paydown and the sale last year of its old Invista polyester and nylon division to Koch Industries.
Cotton clothing also requires more energy to maintain than polyester, since the synthetic fabric can be washed at a lower temperature, can hang to dry and doesn't need ironing.
In Chattanooga, Tenn. the industry includes something very different: ESpin Technologies, a 19-employee outfit that makes nanofibers--filaments of polyester, nylon or other polymers that are only 20 to 200 nanometers wide.
From the huddled masses lining up outside theaters months before a movie opening, to the convention centers filled with adults in polyester jump suits, nothing inspires the fervent fandom of these, the galaxy's greatest space epics.
The court heard four purple polyester fibres had been found in the Land Rover which bore a "microscopic resemblance" to April's coat.
You could venture that this bistro is a snazzy Manhattan version of such a place, bustling with aging Chelsea gents instead of Sunday drivers in polyester slacks.
His coach, Rick Leach, a former No. 1 doubles player, suggested loosening up when playing with polyester strings.
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It consists of a mesh of polypropylene (the stuff used to make Astroturf) sandwiched between layers of nonwoven polyester.
Del Toro has kept a family photograph of him and his sister, Susana, both under ten and forced into polyester finery.
Often the better environmental decision is not to choose a natural or organic path, as one would expect, but to go synthetic--like choosing polyester clothes over cotton.
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