Resources
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025
October 15, 2024
Safe and Sustainable Flame Retardants for Fire safety
Fire safety is integral to Europe’s sustainability goals, and to ensure a safe green and digital transition. Flame retardants have a key role to play in this, and to meet tomorrow’s challenges the...
September 5, 2024
NFSD 2024 – Flame retardants (FRs): balancing the benefits
Nordic Fire & safety Days – 18 & 19 June 2024 (Lund, Sweden)...
July 30, 2024
A study of the state-of-the-art and potential impact of Phosphorus, Inorganic and Nitrogen Flame Retardants (PIN FRs) on plastic recycling.
Study by PNO for pinfa analyses development opportunities and data needs for PIN flame retardants in plastics recycling. Nearly 100 publications and patents were analysed, and six research and industr...
March 4, 2024
Fire safety and Europe’s climate ambition: The role of sustainable flame retardants in Europe’s energy transition
Fire Safety and Europe’s climate ambition – pinfa event – Tuesday 14th February (Webinar – 12.45 to 14.15 CET)
Fire safety and Europe’s climate ambition : The role of sustainable flam...
February 24, 2024
Tried & Tested: The Safety of Flame Retardants
Flame retardants are key for fire safety in our everyday lives. They are chemicals used to prevent and slow down fires. Just like other chemicals, they are tested before being sold to make sure they a...
November 8, 2023
Fire safety and sustainability in strategic industry sectors: how can Flame Retardants contribute?
European Fire Safety Week 2023 – pinfa event – Wednesday 15th November (Webinar – 11.00 to 13.00)
Fire safety and sustainability in strategic industry sectors: how can Flame Retardants cont...
July 30, 2023
PIN Flame Retardants and Recycling
Fire safety is an essential prerequisite for societal use of advanced materials, for example in renewable energy, batteries and information technologies, or for green materials such as wood, natural f...
June 6, 2023
Plastics in Vehicles (AMI)
6 and 7 June 2023 (Munich, Germany)
pinfa sponsored the “Plastics in Electric Vehicles” conference, organised by AMI, Munich on 6 and 7 June 2023. This even gathered the whole automotive materi...
August 24, 2022
Why do we need Flame Retardants?
Flame Retardants are used to ensure the fire safety of many common products whilst meeting many other material requirements....
July 21, 2022
Report for pinfa: Grouping of organophosphorus flame retardants in the context of REACH
PINFA is engaged in all the issues arising from the EU’s Chemical Strategy for Sustainability. One of them is the content of the draft Chemical Restriction roadmap. In this context where the Restric...
June 27, 2022
“What are Safe and Sustainable Flame Retardants?”
27, 28 and 30 June 2022
The chemical industry faces a quadruple challenge; not only do we aim to transition to green, circular and digital Europe, we also have the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainabi...
June 24, 2022
Safety by durability
Flame Retardants need to be fit for purpose and for a long product lifetime. Their chemical stability is a prerequisite to ensure durability and not an obstacle for recycling or a circular economy....
May 26, 2022
Pinfa Annual Report 2022
After dealing with many Covid-19 related restrictions in 2020 and 2021, the year 2022 brought back some degree of normality for pinfa – we could go back to in-person meetings in addition to the many...
December 9, 2021
New Fire Challenges of Green Energy in Buildings
This online workshop looks at the new fire safety risks related to photovoltaic installations, battery storage, electric vehicle charging, new energy control and monitoring systems, and at how standar...
July 30, 2021
Innovative & Sustainable Flame Retardants in Transportation
Transport vehicles like aeroplanes, ships, trains, buses, and cars use a large number of flammable materials and are subject to fire risks, pinfa has compiled this 53 page guide to how phosphorus, ino...
July 7, 2021
What does product sustainability mean for tomorrow’s fire safety?
pinfa webinar series
On 7 July 2021, pinfa convened 140 live participants for a webinar on product sustainability and fire safety. Participants represented a wide range of industries, including che...
April 24, 2021
Pinfa Annual Report 2020
A year like no other sums up 2020. We all witnessed an unprecedented global health pandemic bring life as we know it to a grounding halt. In spite of the extraordinary difficulties, the world communit...
February 24, 2021
Pinfa Annual Report 2021
Pinfa was steadfast in its commitment to maintain high fire safety standards across the world, which minimise the risk of fire to the general public, by continuing to improve the environmental and hea...
November 19, 2020
pinfa and European Fire Safety Week : Energy transition in transports
19 November 2020 (Webinar)
It is estimated that around one third of the world car market will be electric or hybrid by 2030. This has important implications for rescue services on the road (acciden...
October 28, 2020
E-Mobility Webinar on How Flame Retardants Combine Fire Safety and Sustainability in Automotive Plastics
28 October 2020 (Webinar)
On 28 October 2020, pinfa organised an E-Mobility Webinar on How Flame Retardants Combine Fire Safety and Sustainability in Automotive Plastics, which was attended by app...
January 9, 2020
Pinfa E-Mobility workshop : Fire Safety Challenges in Automotive Plastics
12 November 2019 – Darmstadt (Germany)
With this workshop in Darmstadt, the heart of the Rhine Main area, pinfa FGK and the Fraunhofer LBF aim at bringing together the whole value chain on electr...
December 24, 2019
Pinfa Annual Report 2019
2019 saw unprecedented technological breakthroughs, such as successful landings of reusable unmanned rockets, eradication of 2 of 3 polio stems or the very first observable image of a black hole. Prof...
December 5, 2019
Fire Resistance in Plastics – pinfa presentation
Electromobility & fire safety – Challenges, trends & solutions – J. Crozier...
November 25, 2019
Pinfa E-Mobility workshop : Fire Safety Challenges in Automotive Plastics
At its second Electromobility and fire safety challenges workshop, pinfa brought together more than 60 stakeholders of the electromobility value chain, ranging from automotive companies, OEMs, plastic...
December 24, 2018
Pinfa Annual Report 2018
Throughout 2018, pinfa has maintained a high level of activities and commitment to promote PIN flame retardants in Europe and beyond. Indeed, 2018 is a watershed because it has been the first year wit...
November 24, 2017
Innovative Flame Retardants in Electronics & Electrical Applications
Pinfa presentation of halogen-free flame retardant solutions (FRs) for key electronics and electrical components including housings, cables, connectors and switches. Standards development and fire tes...
May 24, 2017
Innovative & Sustainable Flame Retardants in Building and Construction
Presentation of non-halogenated PIN flame retardant solutions for different materials and applications in building and construction, including standards and testing of resistance to fire, fire classif...
April 28, 2017
How PIN FRs affect gas and soot toxicity of smoke in case of fire? Review of the literature
CREPIM’s litterature survey commissionned by pinfa. An initial study by CREPIM France, for pinfa, has collated and assessed available scientific literature on how PIN FRs affect fire smoke toxicity....
August 6, 2014
SCI Conference – Debunking the myth with Flame retardants
SCI Fire and Materials Group meeting in Glasgow on 5 November...
September 7, 2011
March 31, 2010
The use of FR plastics in E&E
Non-halogenated flame retardants have been commonly used in electric and electronic equipment for many years
The chart (see link below) shows the total amount of plastics used in electric and elect...
March 31, 2010
European FR Consumption by volume
Non-halogenated flame retardants represent more than two thirds of the volume of FRs consumed in Europe
The chart (see link below) shows the consumption of flame retardants in Europe in 2007, which a...
March 31, 2010
Share of PIN FRs for EEE applications
Electric and electronic products represent a major application for halogen free flame retardants
Of all application areas for halogen free flame retardants, Electric & Electronic equipment makes...
March 31, 2010
FR production in Europe
There are many manufacturers and manufacturing sites for non-halogenated flame retardants in Europe
Whereas there are 23 production sites for phosphorus, inorganic and nitrogen flame retardants (PIN...
March 31, 2010
Global FR market
On a value basis, non-halogenated FRs represent about one third of the global market
The chart (see link below) shows a breakdown of the global flame retardants market by halogenated and non-halogena...