by pinfa-editor | 19 Jun, 2024
Presentations underlined the value of PIN flame retardants in enabling lightweight, fire-safe component performance, in particular protection in case of battery thermal runaway. The AMI conference “Plastics in Electric Vehicles”, Cologne 4-5 June 2024, sponsored by...
by pinfa-editor | 26 Oct, 2023
Tests on 89 different cables analysed how different cable structures and materials influence behaviour, including sheath materials, bedding, number and configuration of conductors, different conductor metals. Cone calorimeter test data is compared to real-scale fire...
by pinfa-editor | 4 Apr, 2023
Council to Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 cites cladding material suppliers’ “cynical and possibly even dishonest practices”. Richard Millett, council to the Grenfell Tower fire official Inquiry has published a final statement summarising 400 days of evidence to Phase 2 of...
by pinfa-editor | 29 May, 2020
by pinfa-editor | 11 Jun, 2020
Biesterfeld is now distributing Elkem’s low specific surface area silica, as a performance synergist or partial filler replacement, for flame retardant rubbers. The special amorphous silica’s low BET (Brunauer–Emmett–Teller) surface area, 20 – 25 m2/g, means...
