Denim cotton fabric can be recycled using PIN flame retardants to produce composite boards for fire compartmentation. The world produces some 150 million t/y of textile waste. This review suggests that end-of-life denim cotton fibres treated with PIN flame retardants...
A silicon polyphosphoramide was synthesised and tested as a PIN flame retardant for bio-based polylactide plastic. The commercially available chemicals dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP) and 1, 3-Bis(3-aminopropyl) tetramethyl-disloxane (BATDMS) were one-step reacted...
Iron alginate at 8% w/w in epoxy resin halved both peak heat release rate and smoke release rate in epoxy. Iron alginate was produced by aqueous reaction of sodium alginate, which can be extracted from marine plants, with the ferric salts, then dried, pulverised and...
To 14th March 2022. Questions whether RoHS Directive should be maintained, updated, tightened, repealed or replaced. The current RoHS Directive (Restriction of Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic (E&E) equipment, 2011/65/CE) restricts some heavy...
The NY ban on brominated FRs in TV/display stands and casings now requires notification of any organohalogen FRs. The New York State ‘Family and fire fighter protection act’ (S4630, 5418-B), signed into law 2nd January 2022, bans “organohalogen” flame retardants in...
