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Public consultation on WEEE Directive
Questionnaire to evaluate EU WEEE Directive effectiveness, impacts, links to other EU legislation and standards.
READ MOREAutomobile expert on EV developments
Alan Amici, Center for Automotive Research (CAR), will discuss production forecasts and R&D needs for electric vehicles.
READ MOREHouse burn reaches ¾ million viewers
TV New Zealand with fire services broadcast full-scale furnished house burn trial showing how a scooter battery fire becomes unsurvivable after three minutes.
READ MORESweden E&E “ecotax” update
Updated Swedish ecotax covers all halogenated and phosphorus FRs with a 50% reduction for non-halogenated.
READ MORECarcinogenicity of chlorinated FR TCPP
US National Toxicology Programme concludes evidence of carcinogenic activity of the halogenated FR TCPP = Tris(chloropropyl) phosphate.
READ MOREJoint letter for EU holistic fire safety
18 industry, technical and science organisations call for structural coordination of EU initiatives on fire safety of buildings in a letter to the European Commission led by the European Sire Safety Alliance and signed by pinfa.
READ MOREClarification CPR fire resistance Annexes
Proposed consolidation, tidying and update of EU Construction Products Regulation fire resistance classes.
READ MOREOrientations for EU Ecodesign
Questionnaires will input to EU Ecodesign criteria for cooking equipment and imaging equipment (i.e. printers).
READ MOREData centre fires a “significant threat”
Digital infrastructure specialists DgtlInfra explains data centre fire risks, consequences and causes, with 19 examples of major data centre fires over the last decade.
READ MORECar transport ship fires
The “Fremantle Highway” car transport ship fire is raising questions about electric vehicle (EV) transport safety.
READ MORESiemens white paper on EV garage fires
Specific new fire risks of electric vehicles require new approaches to prevention, detection and extinction.
READ MOREPhytic acid based PIN FR for PVA
Bio-based phosphorus flame retardant achieves UL 94 V-0 in polyvinyl alcohol with good mechanical and UV performance.
READ MOREDOPO coating of polyamide fibres
Phosphorus PIN FR DOPO was coated on PA6 textile achieving vertical burn self-extinguishing and wash semi-durable.
READ MOREPathway to sustainable PIN FRs
Review suggests that AI could enable design of cost-effective and safe new PIN FRs and underlines need for LCA.
READ MOREReactive phosphorus PIN FR for poly(lactic acid)
Marie-Odile Augé, Centrale Lille, France & Daniele Roncucci, Empa / ETHZ, Switzerland - The bio-sourced polymer poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is highly flammable and requires flame retardants to reduce fire risks.
READ MOREProtecting carbon fibres from fire in laminates
Weronika Tabaka, BAM Germany - Fire stability of carbon fibre – epoxy resin laminates with protective interlayers was tested at bench scale (120 mm x 120 mm) with simultaneous application of mechanical load and direct flame (butane burner).
READ MOREFire Retardant Polymeric Materials Conference 2023
The 19th edition of FRPM (Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials Conference) www.frpm-23.org was hosted by Empa, Switzerland, 26-29 June 2023. This is one of the world’s biggest flame retardant conference, with nearly 250 participants, 69 oral presentations and 70 posters.
READ MOREEU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability - Martijn Beekman, European Commission, DG GROW - Despite forty years of chemicals regulations in Europe, today sees high levels of citizen concern about chemical impacts on health and on the environment and scientific evidence of widespread impacts of chemicals.
READ MOREEU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and FRs
Adrian Beard, pinfa and Clariant - The EU’s “Chemical Strategy for Sustainability” (April 2022, pinfa Newsletter n°138) will bring major changes to chemicals regulation in Europe and these are today being initiated, including the recast of the EU chemicals regulation REACH, the concepts of “Safe and Sustainable by Design” (SSbD) chemicals and of “Essential Uses” of certain chemicals, the announced Restriction of all PFAS (as a class of chemicals).
READ MOREChallenges for sustainable phosphorus chemistry
Chris Slootweg, University of Amsterdam - The phosphorus cycle today exceeds planetary boundaries and leads to widespread water quality deterioration (eutrophication).
READ MOREFire and smoke from cross-laminated timber
Gaëlle Fontaine, Centrale Lille France - Tests assessed smoke and fire behaviour of cross-laminated timber under different oxygen concentrations.
READ MOREPIN FRs and electric vehicle battery pack fire safety
Lei Chen, SABIC - A key challenge to Electric Vehicle (EV) battery pack design is the battery pack structure which includes battery cooling and cell separation to prevent propagation of the whole battery pack in case of failure of one cell.
READ MOREPolyphosphonates for performance fire safety
Richard Clay and Stephen Blair, Polymer Compounders Limited (PCL) - Based in the UK, PCL supply several thousand tonnes per year of performance thermoplastic polymer compounds to a broad range of customers in automotive, healthcare, industrial, white goods and electrical...
READ MOREInnovative liquid PIN FRs for foams
Claudia Vogt and Edwin Kroke (Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, TUBAF), with Tobias Wagener and Alexander König (BASF), Carl-Christoph Höhne and Jennifer Limburger (Fraunhofer ICT).
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