Giulia Spezzati, Avient Avient is responding to customers’ wishes to move 100% halogen-free and is developing new PIN FR solutions to combine this with performance. Sustainability is a key objective, essential to customers’ futures, and non-halogenated fire safety...
Bernhard Schartel, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM), Germany discussed durability of non-halogenated flame retardancy in E&E plastics. Stability of flame retarded polymeric materials in some applications, such as outdoor furniture, is today a...
The leading European conference on flame retardants comes back to Cologne for 2023, covering flame retardant materials, applications and testing. The conference is the most important meeting place for polymer suppliers and compounders, downstream users, flame...
A world leader in mineral solutions for industry and consumer applications, IMERYS offers performance PIN FR synergists. IMERYS provides functional additives for the mineral formulations of customers’ products, mineral components as formulation constituents, and...
1.35 million fires in the US in 2021 caused 3 800 civilian fire deaths, 14 700 injuries and 16 bn. US$ property damage. This covers only fires to which fire services responded. The US NFPA (National Association for Fire Protection) “Fire Loss” 2021 report notes that...
