Balancing fire risk and flame retardants

Balancing fire risk and flame retardants

Paper concludes that lower fire safety standards may be justified in only a few specific furniture types. The UK has the world’s strictest fire safety regulations for domestic furniture and these regulations are currently under review (see pinfa Newsletter n°154)....
UK Furniture Fire Safety Regulations debate

UK Furniture Fire Safety Regulations debate

UK Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) attacks fire safety regulations, flame retardants and Standards Institution. The EAC is a committee of the UK Parliament. Following the public consultation on revision of the UK Furniture Fire Safety Regulations (see pinfa...
Halloween costumes fire danger

Halloween costumes fire danger

Tests show some children’s Halloween outfits ignite within a second and burn for up to ten minutes. 15 UK supermarket Halloween costumes were tested by UK firefighters (Pegswood, Northumberland) with The Sun newspaper. Some ignited within a few seconds and burned...
Runway fire: all JAL passengers escape

Runway fire: all JAL passengers escape

All 379 people on JAL’s Airbus A350 escaped unhurt when it caught fire after crashing into another plane during landing. Reports suggest that the Airbus was landing normally until one wing hit a small Japan coast guard Bombardier Dash-8 which was stationary on the...
PIN non-drip solutions without PTFE

PIN non-drip solutions without PTFE

Tolsa webinar presents PIN FR synergists to achieve non-drip fire performance in different polymers. In a 30-minute webinar on the SpecialChem material selection platform, Marta Sacristán Benito explains how Tolsa’s organo-clay PIN additives can achieve UL 94 V-0...