This SPE event included a session of PIN FR product presentations by pinfa-NA members, showing a range of different PIN FR solutions able to achieve high levels of fire performance in many different polymers: Paul Hardy, Amfine Tobias Moss, Budenheim Elke Schlosser...
Tim Reilly, Clariant, summarised regulatory developments in the USA, underlining that this is largely driven by NGOs, often via political action in one or a few States. Federal action has mainly targeted “PBT” chemicals (Persistent, Bio-accumulative, Toxic),...
Yiming Zhang, Case Western Reserve University, discussed possible alternatives to PTFE to prevent melt-drip. PTFE (PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene, a PFAS chemical) is widely used at low doses to prevent melt-drip of polymers in fire, in particular for PIN-FR...
Kari Ingalls, Tidal Vision, presented the company’s chitosan products, sourced from seafood processing wastes (crab shells), which have many applications including as PIN flame retardants. Chitosan is the second most abundant biological polymer, is positively...
One side of the 42-storey China Telecom building rapidly engulfed in flame in presumed façade cladding fire. Media reports suggest that the cause may have been a fault in an aircon unit or lighting. Official media indicate no casualties and that the fire was rapidly...
