by pinfa-editor | 13 Feb, 2020
Grolman is a leading international distributor and business development partner in speciality chemicals, present in 40 countries and providing a range of performance materials, additives, fillers, pigments, binders, and flame retardants to Industries including,...
by pinfa-editor | 14 Jan, 2020
Marc Leifer, ICL, summarised trends and perspectives in fire safety, as seen by his company. Civilisation has been marked by great fires, from Rome in 64 BC to San Francisco in 1906. Considerable improvements have been made in preventive fire safety, at least in...
by pinfa-editor | 30 Oct, 2019
Four comparable phosphorus-containing compounds were synthesised, each with one central P atom and three hexenyl groups: an amide (P bonded to 3xN), a diamidate (P bonded to 2xN, 1xO), an amidate (P bonded to 1xN, 2xO) and a phosphate (P bonded to 3xO). These were...
by pinfa-editor | 13 Feb, 2020
TCO, the health, environment and worker protection label for office and home electronics, has updated its list of “alternative safer substances” to now include 14 PIN flame retardants, including mineral FRs (ATH, MDH), nitrogen FRs (melamine polyphosphate) and...
by pinfa-editor | 30 Oct, 2019
Poly- and cyclo- phosphazenes are recognised effective PIN flame retardants, but to date are not available as water soluble and permanent systems for textiles. Here a new cyclophosphazene was synthesised in a one-step process: hexa (allylamine) cyclotriphosphazene...
