Who is pinfa North America

WHO IS PINFA NORTH AMERICA Pinfa-NA (North America) is a non-profit trade organization that brings together and represents manufacturers and users of the major flame retardant technologies. Pinfa North america has two levels of membership: FULL MEMBERS Flame retardant...
NGO questions “chemical recycling” of plastics

NGO questions “chemical recycling” of plastics

The environmental NGO Zero Waste Europe has published a position paper on “chemical recycling” of plastics. The NGO’s position is that chemical recycling does have “a role to play in closing the material loop and moving … up the waste hierarchy”, but that policy...

Position papers

POSITION PAPERS  Position paper on the unsustainable Swedish Electronic Tax by Swedish industry groups (English translation) How it affects the environment, the consumer and the economy  pinfa input UK Furniture Fire Safety Regulations consultation pinfa answers to...
Questions on smoke toxicity

Questions on smoke toxicity

A webinar with experts and regulators underlined the complexity of smoke toxicity, showing that regulation of fire toxicity emissions of construction products is currently neither feasible nor appropriate. Sirpa Pietikäinen MEP, underlined the need to avoid increasing...
NIST fire calorimetry database

NIST fire calorimetry database

US National Fire Research Laboratory has launched a publicly accessible database of nearly 400 fire test results. The tests range from small item to furnished room scale and include data (CSV format), videos, photos and graphed data. This can provide data on heat...