RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers

RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers

For RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers, pinfa membership is an important step of the journey towards sustainability. RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of polyamide and other engineering polymers. It is part of...
Webinar on fire risks, fire tests, FRs

Webinar on fire risks, fire tests, FRs

pinfa-na webinar with Alex Morgan on links between fire tests, materials fire safety, fire safety engineering and FR solutions. Dr. Morgan (University of Dayton Research Institute, Center for Flame Retardant Material Science) is a leading global expert on materials...
Laurent Tribut, Schneider Electric (pinfa member)

Laurent Tribut, Schneider Electric (pinfa member)

Laurent Tribut, Schneider Electric (pinfa member) explained that ensuring 50% “green materials” in its products by 2025 is a core element of the company’s sustainability objectives, including both climate and resources, and covering both Schneider Electric and its...
High-rise fire Chicago

High-rise fire Chicago

Rapid fire spread up nine floors of a high-rise building, Kenwood, Chicago, 25 Jan. 2023, killing one and injuring nine. The fire is indicated to have been started by smoking materials igniting combustibles in a bedroom. The fire spread rapidly upwards from the 15th...
Runway fire: all JAL passengers escape

Runway fire: all JAL passengers escape

All 379 people on JAL’s Airbus A350 escaped unhurt when it caught fire after crashing into another plane during landing. Reports suggest that the Airbus was landing normally until one wing hit a small Japan coast guard Bombardier Dash-8 which was stationary on the...