The UK wood materials industry organisation has taken position for more demanding fire safety specifications. The Timber Trade Federation and Wood Protection Association (TTF WPA) has taken position following the fire which impacted around 30 flats in Samuel Garside...
22 young people died in a fire in an academic coaching centre in Surat, Gujarat State, India, 24th May 2019. The fire is said to have started with an electrical short-circuit and to have then destroyed the only escape route, a wooden staircase. The coaching centre was...
UL (Underwriters Laboratories) has published the proceedings of the third Furniture Flammability and Human Health Summit, organised with Emory University, Atlanta, 13-14 December 2017. This summarises inputs from nearly thirty speakers from research, industry,...
Magnesium hydroxide nanoparticles were produced by adding sodium hydroxide to filtered seawater to precipitate magnesium dihydroxide, calcing to magnesium hydroxide, then grinding. Calcium hydroxide nanoparticles were produced by calcining cleaned egg shells (food...
A thirty-one page review paper, based on nearly eighty publications, summarises developments and perspectives for bio-based PIN flame retardants for synthetic polymeric materials. Renewable PIN FRs discussed are based on: tannic acid, phytic acid (a plant molecule...
