De Monchy centres on providing quality products to customers, ensuring high levels consistent over coming years. Sustainability is a priority for the company, which is moving away from brominated FRs with a developing offer of ‘green’ and non-toxic FRs. De Monchy is...
Günter Beyer, Fire and Polymers Belgium, summarised possibilities of bio-sourced flame retardants, Phytic acid (inositol hexaphosphoric acid), the natural phosphorus storage molecule in plants (especially in seeds), with up to 28% P by weight, has been demonstrated to...
Fouad Laoutid, Materia Nova Research Centre Belgium, presented research into fire safety functionalisation of polylactide (PLA, a bio-based polymer) by inserting phosphorus compounds, such as DOPO-diamine, as initiator for lactide ring opening polymerization. A...
POLOPLAST’s policy is to offer PIN flame retardant solutions, considered to be the future for fire safety. Health and safety, both for POLOPLAST’s own staff and for customers, is a priority and leads to prefer PIN FRs which offer benefits and quality technical support...
Hervé Feuchter, CREPIM France, presented results of the comparison of smoke emissions from neat polymers and from polymers with FRs. This is the first time that such extensive data has been developed under comparable conditions. 94 samples were tested (3 mm plates or...
