Free webinar: polymer fire behaviour

Free webinar: polymer fire behaviour

Polymer combustion behaviour and how flame retardants impact heat release and smoke emission. pinfa-NA free webinar, with Alexander Morgan, fire and materials expert at the University of Dayton Research Institute Polymer combustion behaviour. pinfa-NA’s 14th L&L...
pinfa-NA Members’ Meeting

pinfa-NA Members’ Meeting

pinfa-NA members discussed activities, conference communications, met sponsored FR research students. The pinfa-NA annual end-of-year members’ meeting was held in Cleveland, Ohio, on 11th November, coinciding with pinfa-NA participation at the Compounding World Expo...
Journal de-listed after FR polemic

Journal de-listed after FR polemic

Chemosphere removed from science list after media-grabbing article wrongly calculated flame retardant “contamination”. The journal Chemosphere (Elsevier) published September 2024 an article by authors from the NGO Toxic Free Future and the Amsterdam Free University...
Biomaterial flame retardants

Biomaterial flame retardants

380 pages, 15 chapters, research updates on bio-based materials as flame retardant components. The book is misleadingly titled “Biomaterials as Green Flame Retardants” whereas it is largely about (partly) bio-based flame retardants (biomaterials that have been...
Free webinar: carbon architecture fire safety

Free webinar: carbon architecture fire safety

Carbon-based fabrication can address global needs for fast, cheap housing, but the fire challenges must be addressed. pinfa-NA free webinar, with Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor at MIT’s Department of Architecture, expert in digital design and fabrication using...