Roger Avakian, Avakian Polychem Consulting, provided a one hour introduction to polymer fire safety, presenting the different principal non-halogenated flame retardant chemistries and how they function to prevent or inhibit fire and summarising key fire performance...
This SPE event included a session of PIN FR product presentations by pinfa-NA members, showing a range of different PIN FR solutions able to achieve high levels of fire performance in many different polymers: Paul Hardy, Amfine Tobias Moss, Budenheim Elke Schlosser...
Tim Reilly, Clariant, summarised regulatory developments in the USA, underlining that this is largely driven by NGOs, often via political action in one or a few States. Federal action has mainly targeted “PBT” chemicals (Persistent, Bio-accumulative, Toxic),...
Sabyasachi Gaan, EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), outlined developments in recycling of FR thermoplastics and thermosets. Thermoplastics (PET, PE), due to their linear structure, are relatively easy to recycle via mechanical...
Yiming Zhang, Case Western Reserve University, discussed possible alternatives to PTFE to prevent melt-drip. PTFE (PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene, a PFAS chemical) is widely used at low doses to prevent melt-drip of polymers in fire, in particular for PIN-FR...
