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22.-23. Feb. 2012
Feuer Trutz - Fachmesse mit Kongress für vorbeugenden Brandschutz, Nürnberg, D
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25.-29. Mar. 2012
ACS Meeting, 6th Fire & Polymers Conference, San Diego, USA
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16.-17. Apr. 2012
3. SKZ Flame Retardants Conference, Shanghai, China
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15.-16. May 2012
Moderne Flammschutzmittel für Kunststoffe, Essen, Germany
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23.-24. May 2012
12. SKZ Trends im Brandschutz/Flammschutzmittel, Würzburg, Germany
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27.-28. Sept. 2012
2nd International Conference on Fires in Vehicles ('FIVE), Chicago
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What are flame retardants? About this website

Flame retardants are chemicals which are added to many materials to increase their fire safety. For example, many plastics are highly flammable and therefore their fire resistance is increased by adding flame retardants in order to reduce the risk of fire.

On this website you find information about the different kinds of flame retardants, which role flame retardants have in fire safety and which advantages and disadvantage their use has.

Clariant Corp. runs maintains this website (see impressum). You can find more information on Clariant's flame retardant range at  www.exolit.com

Photo: R. Baumgarten, Glow Wire Flammability Test of polymer