Within the EU-funded (FP7) project DEROCA, a chemicals alternatives assessment is carried out by authors from the European Commission (JRC) on six different flame retardants: DecaBDE, ATH (aluminium trihydroxide), multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), red phosphorus,...
Teknor Apex, a global compounding leader, has obtained UL (Underwriters Laboratory) AATJ 2 recognition as low smoke and halogen free flame retardant (LS-HFFR) for seven cable components. The Halguard® 58000-58300 series offer high performance electrical and physical...
A 130 page report for the European Commission on the strategy for a non-toxic environment (required by the 7th EU Environment Action Plan) assesses and makes proposals for chemicals policy. The report particularly looks at substitution, chemicals in articles,...
A review of some 170 publications summarises currently knowledge on the thermal decomposition, smoke emission and smoke toxicity of polyurethanes, and on the effects of different flame retardants and additives on suppressing smoke emissions and toxicity. The paper...
Acrylic resin is often used as a component of intumescent coating systems. In this study, the smoke emission from a typical such system (12% acrylic resin, 50% phosphorus carbon nitrogen intumescent, 13% titanium dioxide pigment and 25% solvent which evaporates away...
