pinfa organised the first workshop on fire safety challenges in electro-mobility with 140 attendees in Shanghai, 22nd November 2018. With its ambitious targets for electric vehicles, China is leading globally in the sales of electric vehicles with almost 600 000 cars...
Proposals for updates of the US rail and transit fire standard NFPA 130 is under discussion. Proposed modifications include elimination of “limited combustible materials” from all construction. This will require extensive station reconstruction if adopted, to replace...
Metyx Composites has enlarged its range of performance materials and composites for railways, which includes aramid and carbon fibre composites and texties, eglass, and moulding sandwich panel materials. METYCORE FS (fire shield) and METYCOREMAX FS are RTM (resin...
Two bus fires in Rome on 8th May caught media attention, with a new hashtag #flambus with a total of ten bus fires in the city in 2018 and 22 in 2017. To date, few serious injuries have been reported, but in several cases the buses burn like fireballs. Many of the...
A detailed review summarises research into rail carriage fires from the 1970’s to today, including NIST, Eureka, Firestarr, Transfeu and Metro projects, and translation into standards for materials fire performance and toxic gas emissions in combustion, including...
