As the work came in, Herman pushed the fashion envelope, introducing polyester blends to McDonald's, knitwear to FedEx and cuffless shirts to the casinos of Las Vegas.

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BYD, for example, is the world's largest maker of nickel-cadmium batteries, and India's Reliance Group makes more polyester fibre and yarn than anyone else.

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Sinivasan, president of the Texmaco group, an Indonesian textile and machinery manufacturer, his company will be one of the world's top producers of high-quality polyester.

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"The new generation, my children's generation, do not think anything about polyester, " she says.

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Ingrid Johnson, a professor of textile development and marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology, says today's synthetic fibers are smaller and softer than the polyester of yesteryear.

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It's made by wrapping plastic from recycled bottles around a polyester fiber and swaddling it all in cotton.

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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.

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The court heard four purple polyester fibres had been found in the Land Rover which bore a "microscopic resemblance" to April's coat.

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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.

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