Members exchanged with experts and discussed joint actions on PIN FR environmental data, regulations, applications. Cefic expert Steven van de Broeck presented updates on expected regulatory developments including the Clean Industrial Deal Chemicals Industry Package...
pinfa-NA is partnered with Ecotek Lab to sponsor four high school students’ work on flame retardants. Ecotek Lab is a science research organisation for emerging student scientists, creating opportunities for gifted young students, with links to United Nations...
9th educational video (4 minutes) explains how science shows that flame retardants are effective in improving fire safety. The video shows a logical explanation that FRs do work, based on experience of polymer scientists, fire scientists and materials professionals. A...
pinfa-NA will support Taher Hafiz’s PhD on biobased PIN intumescents at Case Western Reserve University, including experimental tests and numerical modelling. Taher has research, teaching and work experience at Yanbu University, Saudi Arabia, Becton & Dickinson,...
Intumescent coatings using tannic acid, APP and epoxy showed torch heat resistance up to 20 minutes. The intumescent PIN FR coating was made using tannic acid (derived from gall nuts) @ 43% w/w plus the inorganic salt PIN FR ammonium polyphosphate @ 11% w/w in epoxy...
