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16th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Thursday 17th October 2024 (Online)...
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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...
Publications and Science
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...
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15th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Thursday 21st March 2024 (Online)...
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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...
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14th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Thursday 22nd June 2023 (Hybrid)...
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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...
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13th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Thursday 13th December 2022 (Hybrid)...
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12th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Thursday 23rd June 2022 (Online)...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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11th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Monday 25th October 2021 (Online)...
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10th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Thursday 10th June 2021 (Online)...
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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...
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9th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Wednesday 3 February 2021 (Online)...
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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...
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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...
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8th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Wednesday 30th September 2020 (Online)...
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7th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Wednesday 27th May 2020 (Zoom)...
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6th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Thursday 12th December 2019 (Brussels)...
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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...
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5th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Wednesday 12th June 2019 (Relegem)...
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4th pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Wednesday 5th December 2018 (Brussels)...
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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...
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3rd pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Wednesday 30th May 2018 (Brussels)...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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2nd pinfa Advisory Board
Pinfa Advisory Board - Wednesday 15th March 2017 (Brussels)...