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Newsletter 170

April 2025

PINFA IN ACTION

Free webinar: the Boston Nightclub fire

May 28th 17h30 CEST: with Stephanie Schorow, lessons from the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub fire, Boston, 1942.

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pinfa General Assembly April 2025

Members exchanged with experts and discussed joint actions on PIN FR environmental data, regulations, applications.

Update on EU regulatory action on FRs

Information update for pinfa members on implementation of the ECHA Flame Retardant Strategy and implications for industry.

pinfa-NA fire safety scientists of tomorrow

pinfa-NA is partnered with Ecotek Lab to sponsor four high school students? work on flame retardants.

pinfa-NA explainer video : do FRs work?

9th educational video (4 minutes) explains how science shows that flame retardants are effective in improving fire safety.

pinfa-NA scholarship: intumescent FRs

pinfa-NA will support Taher Hafiz?s PhD on biobased PIN intumescents at Case Western Reserve University, including experimental tests and numerical modelling.

PIN FR coatings for fire protection of steel

Intumescent coatings using tannic acid, APP and epoxy showed torch heat resistance up to 20 minutes.

pinfa and members partner EU SSbD project

EU-funded PLANETS project will apply the Safe and Sustainable by Design approach to develop flame retardants, plasticisers and surfactants for coatings, insulation foams and childcare articles.

CONSULTATIONS OPEN

1 May: EU update of certain chemical tests

Consultation on updates to chemical test methods including on measurement of dustiness and respirable particles and on a number of alignments with updated OECD test methods.

7 May: Canada consultation borate risks

Draft assessment concludes possible environment and health risks from cumulated natural and anthropogenic sources.

21 May: UK construction products

Public consultation on UK ?Construction Products Reform Green Paper?, part of response to Grenfell report recommendations.

2 June: ISO Flame Retardant codes

Consultation open to modify ISO 1043 with more precise code definitions of nitrogen and organo-phosphorus FRs.

POLICY AND REGULATION

EU Clean Industrial Deal

Business welcomes Commission proposals, calls for rapid implementation. Chemicals Industry Package for late 2025.

Fire safety in EVs and charging in car parks

pinfa input to the European Commission guidance on electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in covered parking.

Canada ? new uses rule trixylyl phosphate

SNAc (Significant New Activity) order for trixylyl phosphate, requiring information and assessment of new uses.

Construction Products Regulation updated

The recast EU CPR is now published, including new rules on traceability, product LCA and end-of-life information.

FIRE SAFETY

59 dead: another nightclub fire tragedy

Flammable materials contributed to the 59 fire deaths and 196 injured at the Pulse Club, Kocani, North Macedonia, 16th March.

Climate change will mean more city fires

Scientists say statistics show that warming climate will result not only in more vegetation fires but also more urban fires.

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

PIN FRs for unsaturated polyester resins

Various experimental phosphorus PIN FRs were tested in UPR, looking at solid and gas phase action and P oxidation state.

PIN FRs for recycled polyethylene

PIN FRs zirconium phosphate and ATH improved mechanical and fire performance of post-consumer recycled rHDPE.

Polymeric Si-N PIN FR for polycarbonate

Functionalised polysiloxane 2% loading in polycarbonate (PC) achieved UL 94 V-0 (3.2 mm), PHRR -64% and total smoke -18%.

THEMATIC RESEARCH UPDATE SUMMARY

Phosphorus oxidation states and FR effects

pinfa research mini-review on how valency of phosphorus in PIN FRs impacts flame retardancy effectiveness.

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