by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
CAI Performance Additives launches new PIN flame retardant for polycarbonate film, transparent, weather & water resistant. The new halogen-free flame retardant additive achieves UL 94 V-0 down to 0.25 mm in PC film, with < 1% w/w loading. The product also...
by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
Surface functionalised silica nanoparticles will be tested as PIN FRs for transparent thermoplastics, such as PMMA poly(methyl methacrylate) and PC polycarbonate. The project aims to develop a PIN FR with safe environment and health profile, compatible with high...
by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
Industrial-grade coal fly ash hollow microspheres from a power station showed to improve fire performance of epoxy resin. Coal fly ash is mainly aluminium silicates, mostly as hollow microspheres c. 15 µm. Loadings of 2 – 10% w/w of flay ash with different densities...
by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
A new N P Si compound was synthesised and showed fire performance and semi-durability on cotton. The new compound, DOPO-AmdPTES, was compared to and showed better performance than similar DOPO-oxysilane (DOPO-ETES, see Vasiljević et al. 2015). Both compounds were...
by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
The large EU-funded population study has published conclusions of analysis of ten halogenated FRs in blood and four organo-phosphate metabolites in urine from 2136 children from nine European countries. Median levels of BDE-47 of c. 0.3 ng/g-lipid were found in...
