Sixteen PIN FRs are now on the TCO Certified list of safer alternatives. TCO Certified, the health, environment and worker protection label for office and home electronics, has updated its list of “alternative safer substances” to now include 16 PIN flame retardants,...
Bench fire destroys school and again shows risks of outside furniture or decorations not covered by building regulations. In the editorial to Fire Safety & Technical Bulletin (FS&TB) February 2021, Marcelo Hirschler shows that around 3% of reported fires in...
100 000 t/y of waste polymers will be broken down by methanolysis to chemical building blocks for new quality plastics. The new 250 million US$ plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, is expected be completed in 2022 and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20-30% compared...
Romiloy 7410® is a non-halogen rubber-modified PC blend offering mechanical, UV and fire performance (UL94-V @1.5 mm). The new PC-blend material from Romira (ROWA Group) is suited to applications in electronics and electrical industries, consumer goods, medical...
Stratasys’ ULTEM™ 9085 resin performance 3D-printing filaments meet aviation and railway fire, smoke and toxicity standards. The material is polyetherimide-based with non-halogenated flame retardants. Printed on Stratasys F900 FDM (fused deposition modelling) 3D...
