by pinfa-editor | 13 Jan, 2023
Markus Kemmler, Kemmler Consulting Cable producers today often try to meet, with the same non-halogenated product, the fire test requirements of Europe, China and the USA. This is highly challenging, and can be economically not feasible or result in processability...
by pinfa-editor | 30 Oct, 2019
The European Commission has opened a tender, to 8th November 2019 (16h), to finalise the European harmonised fire test (“alternative method” of assessment) for building façade products. The service provider should include an inter-laboratory ‘round robin’ test...
by pinfa-editor | 14 Jan, 2020
Hervé Feuchter, CREPIM France, presented results of the comparison of smoke emissions from neat polymers and from polymers with FRs. This is the first time that such extensive data has been developed under comparable conditions. 94 samples were tested (3 mm plates or...
by pinfa-editor | 2 Dec, 2019
A study led by UCLAN UK centering on toxicity of smoke from FR furniture has led to publication by the same journal of an immediate rebuttal. The UCLAN study title states that FRs “increase smoke toxicity more than they reduce fire growth rate” (see comment below)....
by pinfa-editor | 21 Jul, 2019
UL (Underwriters Laboratories) has published the proceedings of the third Furniture Flammability and Human Health Summit, organised with Emory University, Atlanta, 13-14 December 2017. This summarises inputs from nearly thirty speakers from research, industry,...
