FRs for specialist cables, films, coatings

FRs for specialist cables, films, coatings

Markus Kemmler, Kemmler Consulting Cable producers today often try to meet, with the same non-halogenated product, the fire test requirements of Europe, China and the USA. This is highly challenging, and can be economically not feasible or result in processability...
Industry PIN FR innovations

Industry PIN FR innovations

Franck Gyppaz, Nexans, underlined the importance of cables for fire safety and presented a new mineral PIN flame retardant solution. Quantities of cables are increasing everywhere, with demography and with increasing energy demand and new energy uses. One quarter of...
FRs for speciality materials

FRs for speciality materials

Jean-Jacques Flat, Arkema Arkema is looking for sustainable FR solutions with positive LCA, including bio-based, to ensure fire safety whilst maintaining material performance. Flame retardants are needed to enable materials innovation with fire safety in response to...
Compounding to material requirements

Compounding to material requirements

Giulia Spezzati, Avient Avient is responding to customers’ wishes to move 100% halogen-free and is developing new PIN FR solutions to combine this with performance. Sustainability is a key objective, essential to customers’ futures, and non-halogenated fire safety...
Research into PIN FRs

Research into PIN FRs

Bernhard Schartel, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM), Germany discussed durability of non-halogenated flame retardancy in E&E plastics. Stability of flame retarded polymeric materials in some applications, such as outdoor furniture, is today a...