by pinfa-editor | 31 Jan, 2022
A firework ignited acoustic foam in the Kiss Nightclub Brazil 2013. 242 died. Owners and band members condemned. Some 1 200 people were in the Kiss Nightclub, Santa Maria, Brazil, 27th January 2013, when the band Gurizada Fandangueira lit pyrotechnic flares on stage....
by pinfa-editor | 15 Oct, 2019
Bartosz Weclawski, University of Bolton, UK, presented research into use of plasma technology based on an atmospheric pressure plasma and high power UV laser. Multiplexed Laser Surface Enhancement (MLSE from MTIX Ltd., UK) can bond fire retardant precursors...
by pinfa-editor | 6 Sep, 2019
The Government of Queensland State, Australia, has announced that it will regulate to ban “flammable cladding” on all new buildings. This is presented as concerning “all aluminium composite panels with a polyethylene core of greater than 30%” and would concern all new...
by pinfa-editor | 14 Jan, 2020
Nick Wolter, Fraunhofer IFAM (see pinfa Newsletter n°105 FRPM 2019), presented the Mat4Rail project, developing innovative composite materials using polybenzoxazine (high performance, low density polymer), basalt fibre reinforcement and phosphorus PIN FRs. This...
by pinfa-editor | 13 Feb, 2020
Data from 252 commercial fire tests in Poland (KRESNIK) was analysed (tests of 90 façade materials, some were tested three times, some fewer if failed). Façade materials were tested to the standardised Polish PN-B-02867 test, in which a 20 kg wood crib is the fire...
