Newsletter 173

Wednesday 24th September 17h30 CEST. With Maia Benstead, IDTechEx. Battery storage perspectives and fire challenges.

pinfa presented benefits and risks of PIN flame retardant use at Interflam 2025, Royal Holloway, University of London UK

Netflix documentary. Survivors, witnesses and experts tell the tragic story of how 72 lives were unnecessarily lost

UK Government sets deadlines for remediation of fire-risk cladding materials at end 2029 or 2031

Commission Plan to identify and support ?Critical? chemicals, affordable energy, decarbonisation, green chemicals.

Proposal aims to simplify chemical regulations for chemicals labelling and REACH requirements.

Call for evidence open to 6th November 2025 starts procedure for this Act, presented as a key Commission policy, and intended for end 2026.

Call for evidence open to 10th September on simplification of environmental reporting obligations.

The European Court of Justice has confirmed the annulment of the Classification of titanium dioxide powder particles ?10 ?m.

Federal regulators and CSPC are considering obligatory standards for small e-mobility device battery systems.

The PBDE brominated flame retardants are listed as POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) under the global Stockholm convention and in the EU POPs Regulation 2019/1021.

Highland Plastics Kelvinite non-halogen FR polyporopylene (PP) achieves UL94 V-0 at 0.25mm thickness. 

Review underlines benefits and potential of phosphorus-based FRs to improve fire safety of organic battery electrolytes.

DEPAL showed effective combination of fire performance and limited mechanical properties in amine-cured epoxy.

Six similar sulphur ? nitrogen PIN FRs were synthesised and tested in polypropylene (PP) and polyamide (PA6).

Minerals recovered from nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) batteries were an effective synergist to APP (PIN FR) in TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane).