All 379 people on JAL’s Airbus A350 escaped unhurt when it caught fire after crashing into another plane during landing.

Tolsa webinar presents PIN FR synergists to achieve non-drip fire performance in different polymers.

Hyperbranched polysiloxane (PBDSi) containing P and N shows to be an effective FR in polyamide-6 at only 3% loading.

Overview of polyurethane fire decomposition, smoke toxicity and potential impacts of PIN FRs on smoke release and toxicity.

Combining mineral PIN FRs can improve fire performance and reduce smoke without compromising mechanical performance.

Market studies, for sale online, continue to predict sustained growth in flame retardants worldwide, but numbers vary widely.

Syensqo part bio-based long glass fibre PIN FR polyphthalamide for structural, heat, fire and electrical protection of EV batteries. 

Camira launches non-halogenated flame retardant treatment for wool fabrics for public transport applications.

Celanese offers two non-halogenated flame retardant polyamide solutions for e-mobility power chains and batteries.

Ascend Performance Materials’ PIN FR PA66 resistant to 1100°C flame for 15 minutes for electric vehicle battery safety.

SUNUA Low Smoke Zero Halogen cross-linked polyolefin cable insulation compounds offer performance and processing.

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).

Twenty pinfa member companies met to discuss the green transition, regulatory developments and actions worldwide.

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.

pinfa infographic explains that FRs are safety assessed and that risk is low because they are embedded in materials.

18 organisations, including pinfa, call for a comprehensive EU fire safety strategy from the next Parliament and Commission.

European Commission open information call on initiatives for the green and digital transition of the EU chemical industry.

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.

United Nations negotiations on global Plastics Treaty (INC3) considers both plastic waste and plastics additives.

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).

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).

Boston Micro Fabrication and Henkel PIN FR PµSL printing resin micro-precision passes aerospace fire classifications.

ROMIRA flame retardant, GF-reinforced PC blend with non-halogenated, non-hazardous or non-SVHC-listed additives.

Liqcreate photopolymer resin delivers non-halogenated, self-extinguishing fire performance & high-temperature resistance.