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...
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...
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...
Study by PNO for pinfa analyses development opportunities and data needs for PIN flame retardants in plastics recycling. Nearly 100 publications and patents were analysed, and six research and industry experts interviewed. There is today very little published...
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...
