This specialist workshop discussed fire safety challenges in today’s society. NIST and UL videos show how fast flashover can occur in a modern home. The workshop at Case Western University (CWRU), Ohio, was organised by Hatsuo Ishida, and brought together 120...
A short, amateur video posted by the New York Times shows fire engulfing a family house and close escape of a child on a sofa, thanks to fire alarms sounding, just before flashover occurs. Other media, including USAToday, report a United airlines flight having to make...
NAMBA will coordinate advocacy on fire safe use of plastic materials in construction envelopes, as does Modern Building Alliance in Europe. NAMBA is headed by the American Chemistry Council and brings together so far eight executive members from the chemicals,...
Following the launch of carbon-fibre reinforced printing (pinfa Newsletter n°112), with Windform® FR1, CRP Technology has now launched Windform® FR2, a glass-fibre reinforced polyamide for SLS (selective laser sintering) 3D-printing. Windform® FR2 is off-white (not...
Clariant and Lavergne have launched a PIN flame retardant polyester produced from ocean-bound plastic (OBP). This is plastic waste, collected in Haiti, which would have reached the ocean if it had not been recovered. Some 8 million tonnes of plastic are estimated to...
