Photo & Video

PHOTO & VIDEO OUR PHOTOS Fire Resistance in Plastics 3-5 December 2019, Cologne | 20 photos pinfa General Assembly 3 December 2019, Cologne | 15 photos pinfa-AIMPLAS workshop: Recyclability, sustainability and future trends of Fire-retarded plastics 4 April 2019,...
UK consults on Furniture Fire Regulations

UK consults on Furniture Fire Regulations

Public consultation on recast of UK’s 1988 Furniture Fire Safety Regulations open to 24th October 2023. The consultation includes a draft regulatory text “to illustrate the approach”. The proposed new regulations would require (art. 12) the finished upholstered...

Fire Safety

FIRE SAFETY Fire standards and testing save lives and property Product safety standards or national regulations (e.g. building codes) require different types of fire testing, such as resistance to ignition by different heat sources (equivalent to smouldering, small or...

Applications

APPLICATIONS Electric and Electronic Equipment Electrical systems are estimated to be the cause of around one fifth of all fires. Electrical faults like short-circuiting and arcing release sufficient energy to ignite commonly used polymers in electronic equipment,...