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Discussing the ECHA FR Strategy
Discussion paper welcomes the ECHA FR Strategy grouping approach and proposes additional criteria.
READ MOREBalancing fire risk and flame retardants
Paper concludes that lower fire safety standards may be justified in only a few specific furniture types.
READ MOREUK Furniture Fire Safety Regulations debate
UK Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) attacks fire safety regulations, flame retardants and Standards Institution.
READ MOREHalloween costumes fire danger
Tests show some children’s Halloween outfits ignite within a second and burn for up to ten minutes.
READ MORERunway fire: all JAL passengers escape
All 379 people on JAL’s Airbus A350 escaped unhurt when it caught fire after crashing into another plane during landing.
READ MOREPIN non-drip solutions without PTFE
Tolsa webinar presents PIN FR synergists to achieve non-drip fire performance in different polymers.
READ MOREPIN FR no-drip fire performance in PA6
Hyperbranched polysiloxane (PBDSi) containing P and N shows to be an effective FR in polyamide-6 at only 3% loading.
READ MOREPIN FRs and polyurethane fire toxicity
Overview of polyurethane fire decomposition, smoke toxicity and potential impacts of PIN FRs on smoke release and toxicity.
READ MOREPIN FR synergy in recycled ABS
Combining mineral PIN FRs can improve fire performance and reduce smoke without compromising mechanical performance.
READ MOREFlame retardant “market reports”
Market studies, for sale online, continue to predict sustained growth in flame retardants worldwide, but numbers vary widely.
READ MOREPIN FR compound for battery protection
Syensqo part bio-based long glass fibre PIN FR polyphthalamide for structural, heat, fire and electrical protection of EV batteries.
READ MOREPIN FR for railway wool textiles
Camira launches non-halogenated flame retardant treatment for wool fabrics for public transport applications.
READ MOREPerformance PIN FR polyamides for EVs
Celanese offers two non-halogenated flame retardant polyamide solutions for e-mobility power chains and batteries.
READ MOREFire resistant PIN polyamide for EVs
Ascend Performance Materials’ PIN FR PA66 resistant to 1100°C flame for 15 minutes for electric vehicle battery safety.
READ MORELSZH for replacing halogenated cables
SUNUA Low Smoke Zero Halogen cross-linked polyolefin cable insulation compounds offer performance and processing.
READ MOREHuber LCAs for PIN FRs
Huber Advanced Materials has announced completion of Life Cycle Analyses for 90% of its products, including mineral PIN FRs (aluminium hydroxides, calcined aluminas, activated aluminas and magnesium hydroxides).
READ MOREpinfa General Assembly, Berlin & online
Twenty pinfa member companies met to discuss the green transition, regulatory developments and actions worldwide.
READ MOREpinfa-China energy storage workshop
100 participants at pinfa-China Energy Storage System Safety Workshop, Suzhou, 30th November 2023, included upstream suppliers and downstream customers of the energy storage industry.
READ MOREUS National Week of Flame Retardants
22-25 January 2024, online, SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers) and pinfa-NA.
READ MOREEuropean Fire Safety Manifesto 2024-2029
18 organisations, including pinfa, call for a comprehensive EU fire safety strategy from the next Parliament and Commission.
READ MOREChemical industry transition initiatives call
European Commission open information call on initiatives for the green and digital transition of the EU chemical industry.
READ MOREFire safety and ‘subsidiarity’ in the EU
European Fire Safety Week webinar (available online) examines the EU’s role in fire safety and Member States’ competence, with Theresa Griffin, previously Member of the European Parliament for the UK and Antonio Estella De Noriego, legal expert at Carlos III University Madrid.
READ MOREUN Plastics Treaty targets halogenated FRs
United Nations negotiations on global Plastics Treaty (INC3) considers both plastic waste and plastics additives.
READ MOREEuropean Commission reply on fire safety
Commission says it is “important to address fire safety related to the green transition” in reply to joint letter signed by pinfa and nearly twenty other organisations (see pinfa Newsletter n°152).
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