Special articles on flame retardants and cables show leading companies are centring development on PIN technologies. The articles bring together interviews of FR producers, compounders and production equipment providers, and are accessible online. Compounding World’s...
pinfa has published a 50-page brochure detailing FR applications for materials in tomorrow’s transport vehicles: airplanes, ships, trains, buses, and cars. Designers, manufacturers and transport operators increasingly rely on flammable materials to reduce weight...
Transport for London (TfL) has banned electric scooters on buses and the underground because of fire risks for batteries. This follows a fire on a tube train (Parsons Green, 1/11/21), which caused the train to be evacuated and where the scooter continued to burn after...
Flame retardants can reduce the fire risk of the liquid carbonate-based electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries. Two PIN flame retardants (phenoxycylophosphazene, melamine phosphate) and tris (2-chloropropyl) phosphate were tested in a battery electrolyte consisting of...
Carbon microspheres modified with molybdenum reduced smoke and carbon monoxide emission from TPU polyurethane. Hollow carbon microspheres were synthesised using polyacrylic acid, ethyl orthosilicate and phenolic resin, then carbonised and acidified with phosphoric...
