Less than 10% PIN FR loading, plus a chain extender, enabled production of quality PET foam from post-consumer bottles. Aluminium-tris-(diethylphosphinate) 8% with montmorillonite (MMT) nanoclay 1% were used as PIN flame retardant and a multi-functional epoxy-based...
Eight organophosphate esthers (OPEs), used as plasticisers and/or flame retardants, were tested in 393 food product samples in the UK: TCEP, TCIPP, TDCIPP, TBOEP, TnBP, TPHP, EHDPP, TMPP. The highest detected total OPE was below 20 µg/kg wet weight in milk products...
The National Week of Flame Retardants, organised online by SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers) and pinfa-NA attracted over one hundred participants for five online sessions 22nd – 26th August. The Week was opened by Carolyn Pressley (Budenheim), pinfa-NA Chair, and...
Roger Avakian, Avakian Polychem Consulting, provided a one hour introduction to polymer fire safety, presenting the different principal non-halogenated flame retardant chemistries and how they function to prevent or inhibit fire and summarising key fire performance...
This SPE event included a session of PIN FR product presentations by pinfa-NA members, showing a range of different PIN FR solutions able to achieve high levels of fire performance in many different polymers: Paul Hardy, Amfine Tobias Moss, Budenheim Elke Schlosser...
