The State has enacted legislation banning ten brominated and chlorinated FRs and ATO in a range of applications: residential upholstered furniture, bedding, carpets, curtains and blinds, children’s products. The ban applies to sale, distribution and manufacture of...
The US EPA has effectively banned five PBT chemicals including the brominated FR DecaBDE. Under TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act) section 6(h), the US EPA has effectively banned five Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) chemicals, including decabromodiphenyl ether...
Full-scale building tests by IFV Netherlands show dangers from upholstered furniture fires. IFV carried out 19 full-scale fire and smoke propagation tests in a 4-storey disused residential building dating from 1973, comparing fires involving only a standard 2-place...
New wash-resistant Si – N – P flame retardants developed by DTNW in German government innovation project. The AiF-IGF project No. 19617 N has developed new silane-based PIN FRs, containing silicon, phosphorus and nitrogen, using industrially available amino...
New phosphorus-based PIN FRs developed by DTNW for textiles show wash resistance. Cyclophosphazenes and their derivatives (CPZs) are heterocycle 6-atom rings with alternating P and N atoms with six attached reactive groups. They are versatile chemical building blocks...
