Fire, smoke & toxicity for transportation

Fire, smoke & toxicity for transportation

Pinfa-NA – sampe (Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering) free online event, 28 April 2021. This session will look at fire, smoke and toxicity (FST) requirements for transport applications, in particular aviation. Speakers from FAA, Boeing,...
1 500 readers of PIN FR smoke toxicity study

1 500 readers of PIN FR smoke toxicity study

Science publication of pinfa study on PIN flame retardant polymer smoke emissions downloaded more than 1 500 times after one year. The paper in ‘Fire & Material’s’, by authors from CREPIM France and pinfa, presents results of tests on 72 formulations of 10...
Bio-based FR for cotton textiles

Bio-based FR for cotton textiles

Devan Chemicals has launched a new bio-based flame retardant for cotton and cotton/viscose blends, first of a Bio-Flam range under development. Devan Chemicals is a Belgium-based specialist textile chemical company. Bio-flam P307 is halogen-free (to EN 16785-1 2015)...
Solid silicone rubber for improved rail fire safety

Solid silicone rubber for improved rail fire safety

Wacker has launched a flame retardant solid silicone rubber, meeting EU railway fire safety standards (EN 45545-2), meeting HL2 for R1 and R7 requirements. This is achieved in ELASTOSIL® R 771 by enhancing the inherent fire performance of silicones with a halogen-free...