Annabel Furniture, with Flamaway, has launched a novel FR coating to achieve fire safety, e.g. on polyester fabrics. The coating contains no halogen, no antimony and achieves with lamination crib 5 or crib 7 fire safety standards. It has a positive health profile (no...
Anker, Devan and Shark Solutions have developed a halogen-free FR carpet for aviation using 100% recycled PVB binder (polyvinyl butyral) sourced from recycled vehicle and construction glass. Anker, a German professional carpet manufacturer, developed the product with...
Full-scale building tests by IFV Netherlands show dangers from upholstered furniture fires. IFV carried out 19 full-scale fire and smoke propagation tests in a 4-storey disused residential building dating from 1973, comparing fires involving only a standard 2-place...
New wash-resistant Si – N – P flame retardants developed by DTNW in German government innovation project. The AiF-IGF project No. 19617 N has developed new silane-based PIN FRs, containing silicon, phosphorus and nitrogen, using industrially available amino...
New phosphorus-based PIN FRs developed by DTNW for textiles show wash resistance. Cyclophosphazenes and their derivatives (CPZs) are heterocycle 6-atom rings with alternating P and N atoms with six attached reactive groups. They are versatile chemical building blocks...
