by pinfa-editor | 24 Mar, 2021
Sixteen PIN FRs are now on the TCO Certified list of safer alternatives. TCO Certified, the health, environment and worker protection label for office and home electronics, has updated its list of “alternative safer substances” to now include 16 PIN flame retardants,...
by pinfa-editor | 18 Jan, 2024
Tolsa webinar presents PIN FR synergists to achieve non-drip fire performance in different polymers. In a 30-minute webinar on the SpecialChem material selection platform, Marta Sacristán Benito explains how Tolsa’s organo-clay PIN additives can achieve UL 94 V-0...
by pinfa-editor | 30 Apr, 2021
Public comment is requested on rules to reduce exposure to PBT chemicals including three FRs: Deca-BDE, HBCD, TIPPP. Deadline for input is 17th May 2021. Deca-BDE is prohibited in the USA from January 2022 (sale of articles to which Deca-BDE has been added), with...
by pinfa-editor | 28 May, 2024
Video shows side-by-side room fire tests with UK fire-safe and US non fire-safe furniture – and how families react. Two identical open-front mock-up rooms were furnished with two sofas (one UK Furniture Fire Safety Regulations standard, using flame retardant FR, and...
by pinfa-editor | 19 Oct, 2022
Pinfa member IMERYS has launched a range of mineral flame retardant (FR) synergists for engineered thermoplastics. The synergists are morphologically and chemically engineered for use in thermoplastics. Each product provides unique performance enhancing properties in...
