by pinfa-editor | 30 Apr, 2021
In just 22 seconds, cell thermal runaway spreads flames throughout the battery compartment. A full-scale fire test was carried out on a battery system of seventeen 3P6S battery modules mounted with control systems in a car chassis. One battery module was overcharged...
by pinfa-editor | 11 May, 2020
UFAC has launched a programme to test whether furniture “is free of the most common flame retardant chemicals” … without specifying which these are. The UFAC (Upholstered Furniture Action Council) programme, launched February 2020, appears to refer to the Duke...
by pinfa-editor | 13 Jan, 2023
Giulia Spezzati, Avient Avient is responding to customers’ wishes to move 100% halogen-free and is developing new PIN FR solutions to combine this with performance. Sustainability is a key objective, essential to customers’ futures, and non-halogenated fire safety...
by pinfa-editor | 20 Mar, 2024
pinfa-NA’s online event for plastics professionals, with the Society of Plastics Engineers, attracted over 100 participants, with eight strongly attended speaker sessions over four days, plus panel sessions. This National Week of Flame Retardants covered regulatory...
by pinfa-editor | 2 Mar, 2021
The Grenfell fire inquiry is continuing to question information supplied to customers by cladding manufacturers. As indicated in pinfa Newsletter n°121, input to the inquiry has suggested that one product used on Grenfell Tower may have been sold as fire Class 0 based...
