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Updated brochure on flame retardants for electrical and electronic applications

2009-06-24. The new flame retardants organisation pinfa has issued an updated version of a brochure on flame retardants for electrical and electronic applications together with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Professor Manfred Doering and Dr. Jan Diederichs have documented the state of the art together with leading manufacturers of halogen free phosphorus, inorganic and nitrogen based flame retardants.

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