Environmental impact of fires in buildings

Environmental impact of fires in buildings

A PIN FR package in epoxy shows aviation fire performance and reduced smoke emission and toxicity. DGEBA-based epoxy was combined with FRs, then applied to woven glass fibres (GF) to 0.6 mm thickness. A PIN flame retardant package (resin micro-encapsulated red...
Lotte’s PIN FR PP achieves ASTM A-grade

Lotte’s PIN FR PP achieves ASTM A-grade

PIN flame retardant enables A-grade fire safety for building interiors with large volume, highly adaptable polymer (polypropylene). The non-halogenated (PIN) flame retardant used by Lotte Chemicals is non-toxic (no GHS toxicity label) and the PIN FR polypropylene...
Demonstration video: cable fire safety

Demonstration video: cable fire safety

Flame test video by Europacable, compares dangers of non-fire safe cable to fire safe cable. Europacable is the European cable manufacturers’ federation, with members including the largest cable producers in the world as well as specialised medium and small companies....
PIN FRs and electric vehicle battery pack fire safety

PIN FRs and electric vehicle battery pack fire safety

Lei Chen, SABIC A key challenge to Electric Vehicle (EV) battery pack design is the battery pack structure which includes battery cooling and cell separation to prevent propagation of the whole battery pack in case of failure of one cell. PIN FR performance...
Comparing FRs in polyamides

Comparing FRs in polyamides

Two different polyamides with 30% glass fibres, based on terephthalic acid (PTA) or isophthalic acid (ITA), were tested for fire performance and other properties with a halogenated and a PIN FR solution. The ITA-based polyamide has a lower melting point, facilitating...