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How flame retardants combine fire safety and sustainability in electric vehicles
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READ MORESustainable Products Initiative
An EU public consultation is open to 2nd November 2020 on “Sustainable Products” policy, in particular EcoDesign.
READ MOREProduct environmental claims
An EU public consultation is open to 3rd December 2020 on “Substantiating claims of environmental performance”.
READ MOREEU Commission answer on FR policy
Flame retardants will be targeted in EU policy developments for Sustainable Products and Green Public Purchasing, says Thierry Breton (European Commissioner for Internal Market).
READ MOREIntumescents screened on Grand Designs
The UK Channel4 TV series has featured intumescent FR paint, shown as saving the character of a front-edge renovation.
READ MOREGreenScreen Certified fire fighting foam
Criteria for fire fighting foams have been updated to cover Class A and B foams, excluding halogens.
READ MOREpinfa member wins China GoldenBee
Clariant has been recognised for sustainability and recycling by China’s GoldenBee CSR award for enterprises. GoldenBee is a corporate platform, developing Corporate Social Responsibility in China, supported by China Sustainability Tribune (previously WTO Tribune).
READ MOREPhosphorus FRs in sandwich panels
PIN flame retardants reduce heat and smoke release from PET-core / glass fibre / epoxy structural sandwich panels.
READ MORESmoke toxicity of façade insulation systems
Tests on mock external wall facades raise questions on how smoke toxicity might impact building occupants in a fire. This study publishes work already presented at FRPM2019 (see pinfa Newsletter n°103).
READ MOREReview of fire toxicity of building materials
More research is needed to correlate bench-scale fire tests on materials to real fire emissions.
READ MOREElectric vehicle fire tests
Swiss tests show how fast and violently electric vehicles can burn and note specific pollution risks in fire-fighting waters.
READ MOREFull-scale metro carriage test burn
Tests on a China metro carriage, as before today’s fire standards, exceeded 1000 kW heat in less than three minutes.
READ MOREFRs in furniture and in dust
Data from California show lower levels of some halogenated FRs in dust with lower furniture fire safety standards.
READ MOREFlame retardants and microplastics
Release of flame retardants from microplastics in the environment are very low and unlikely to pose significant risk, is the conclusion of a review of nearly 200 publications.
READ MOREStudy suggests no health risk from PIN FRs
A review of organophosphate FRs in indoor dust in China suggests that they do not pose a direct health risk.
READ MOREConstruction Products Regulation
The EU public consultation on the review of the CPR is open to 22nd December 2020.
READ MOREThe Swedish Chemical tax on Electronics is not working
Brussels, 5 October 2020 – Pinfa welcomes the conclusion of the report "Evaluation of the tax on chemicals in certain electronics" presented to the Swedish government on I October 2020, which found the chemical tax to be ineffective in its current form.
READ MOREStudy says Swedish FR tax has little effect
Company interviews suggest tax may not target the right flame retardants and has resulted in little substitution.
READ MORERadiciGroup High Performance Polymers
For RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers, pinfa membership is an important step of the journey towards sustainability.
READ MOREFR Advisers LLC, Georgia, USA
Dr. Anteneh Worku, FR Advisers LLC, has joined pinfa-NA as a professional member.
READ MOREInformation on melamine REACH dossier
European producers have announced the self-classification of melamine as a suspected human reproductive toxicant Cat. 2
READ MOREEU GPP criteria exclude halogens
New Green Public Purchasing (GPP) for printers exclude all halogenated polymers and halogenated flame retardants.
READ MOREGeneral Product Safety Directive
Pinfa has called for a better inclusion of fire safety in product safety rules in EU consultation on GPSD.
READ MOREEU project on fire safety statistics
Pilot project on fire data launched after European Parliament vote will prepare EU initiatives on fire safety.
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