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 | 06.01.2011 Events from 2010 2010 17.- 19. Mar. 4th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security, Frankfurt/Main, D Info 06. - 08. Apr. ... |
| 03.08.2009 4th International Symposium, Human Behaviour in Fire 2009, 13-15 July, Cambridge, UK The 4th International Symposium to be held in Cambridge UK 13 -15th July 2009 addresses current issues associated with the fire safety design and evac... |
| 18.05.2009 SKZ Fachtagung Kunststoffe, Brandschutz und Flammschutzmittel, 13.-14. Mai 2009 13-14 Mai 2009, Festung Marienberg, Würzburg, organisiert von SKZ Consem, unter Leitung von Dr. Jürgen Troitzsch. Diese Fachtagung bietet einen Ü... |
| 15.04.2009 European Coating Congress, 30 March - 1 April 2009 30 March - 1 April 2009, Nuremberg Exhibition Centre.This exhibition with an acompanying congress deals with fire retardants coatings in addition to o... |
| 19.11.2008 Self-extinguishing cigarettes rules introduced in the USA - now also discussed in the EU The most common initiating event in a fatal fire is the dropping of a cigarette onto a bed or piece of upholstered furniture, causing 20 % of the esti... |
| 21.10.2008 Electronics Goes Green 2008: The trend towards halogen free flame retardants in electronics continues From September 8th to 10th , the Electronics Goes Green Conference took place in Berlin, organized by the Fraunhofer-Institute for Reliability and Mic... |
| 19.10.2008 IPC Symposium on Electronics and the Environment: It's Not Easy Being Green, July 16-17, 2008, Boston (Cambridge), USA Under the heading "It's not easy going green", the symposium attracted speakers from OEMs, associations, consultancy and service organizations, polyme... |
| 19.09.2008 Welding work causes blaze in the roof of the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall On 20 May 2008, a spectacular blaze destroyed one third - around 1 600 square meters - of the Berliner Philharmonic roof. Although the first fire engi... |
| 19.08.2008 The International Organization for Standardization ISO and fire-related activities ISO is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards. ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries,... |
| 19.07.2008 The International Electrotechnical Commission IEC and fire safety activities International electrical standards are established by the "International Electrotechnical Commission" (IEC), which was founded more than 100 years ago... |
| 19.06.2008 European Court of Justice annuls Deca-BDE RoHS exemption On April 1st, 2008, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) annulled the decabromodiphenyl ether (Deca-BDE) exemption to the EU Restriction of Hazardous S... |
| 19.05.2008 EU Commission activities regarding the revision of the RoHS Directive The EU Commission is currently conducting consultations and has commissioned studies for the revision of the Directive on the restriction of certain h... |
| 19.04.2008 Conference Report: Flame Retardants 2008 in London The Flame Retardants Conference FR 2008 took place in London, UK, on 12th and 13th February 2008. It addressed new developments in the fields fire reg... |
| 19.03.2008 Electronics Manufacturers get serious about halogen free - a report from the INTEL-IPC-Symposium on 15 + 16 January 2008 in Scottsdale, Arizona In mid January, INTEL corporation organized a "halogen free symposium" together with the electronics organisation IPC in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. By ... |
| 19.01.2008 International Symposium on Flame Retardants and Fire Safety (San Francisco) After the first Symposium in Beijing, China, in November 2006, the Second International Symposium on Flame Retardants and Fire Safety, organised by th... |
| 19.12.2007 Conference on „Plastics, Fire Safety, and Flame Retardants“ in Würzburg, Germany The 9th Conference on „Plastics, Fire Safety, and Flame Retardants" took place on December 5th and 6th, 2007 in Würzburg, Germany, at the &bdquo... |
| 09.11.2007 New US Mattress Regulation 16 CFR 1633 Taking Fire Out of Bedroom The first new federal flammability regulation for mattresses in more than 30 years took effect on July 1st , 2007, when all mattresses manufactured an... |
| 09.10.2007 Plans for revising the European Construction Products Directive 1. Revision of the Construction Products Directive (CPD) In October 2005, the Commission adopted a Communication on the simplification of the regulat... |
| 09.09.2007 Taiwanese Jet Explodes Into Flames at Okinawa Airport On August 20, 2007, a China Airlines jet exploded into flames at Okinawa airport after arriving from Taiwan, but all 165 people aboard escaped alive. ... |
| 09.08.2007 The 11th European Conference on Fire Retardant Polymers (FRPM07) The 11th European Conference on Fire Retardant Polymers (FRPM07), 4 to 7 July 2007, took place in Bolton, UK, and was very well attended by about 230 ... |
| 09.07.2007 Wildland fires and new Californian fire safety requirements A wildland fire is an uncontrolled fire that pops up fire often occurring in wildland areas, but which can also consume houses or agricultural resourc... |
| 09.06.2007 Fire protection of rail vehicles: New European and German developments in 2007 Fire protection of rail vehicles is described in the draft European Technical Specification series CEN/TS 45545 Parts 1 to 7. The European standardisa... |
| 09.05.2007 Better fire safety in buses needed Fire incidents in buses are frequent and potentially catastrophic considering the confined space and sometimes difficult evacuation. In 2005, two majo... |
| 09.04.2007 German Environmental Protection Agency asks for phase out of decabromo diphenylether in electrical and electronic equipment In a press release of 26 March 2007, the German Environmental Protection Agency (UBA) demands again the phasing out the flame retardant decabromo diph... |
| 09.03.2007 Sustainability conquers the USA: New American “halogen-free” projects In the USA, the word "sustainability" may still evoke fuzzy stereotypes of do-gooders putting ideals ahead of reality. However, the growing influence ... |
| 09.02.2007 New Chinese RoHS effective in March 2007 The European Directive on the Restriction of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS, 2002/95/EC) has by now has bee... |
| 09.01.2007 Fire hazard No. 1: Christmas trees Every year, during the holiday season, the newspapers report on fires initiated by Christmas trees. Why? The "standard design" of a Christmas... |
| 09.12.2006 Nanocomposites and flame retardancy Nanocomposites are polymers reinforced with nanomaterials. They are highly praised and a subject of intensive research, because they show impressive p... |
| 09.11.2006 The new Burnthrough Resistance Test for thermal and acoustic insulation materials in aircraft In aircraft accidents, a significant number of fatalities are caused by the effects of fire. A well known fire catastrophe was the Swissair flight 111... |
| 09.10.2006 Fire Test Procedures Code (FTP code) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its planned revision The International Maritime Organization IMO has developed fire safety regulations for international commercial ships in the frame of the International... |
| 09.09.2006 Fire hazard from battery-operated devices In the last months, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced several recalls related to fire hazard from batteries. CPSC is commit... |
| 09.08.2006 Report from the Conference on „Plastics, Fire Safety, and Flame Retardants“ The 8th Conference on „Plastics, Fire Safety, and Flame Retardants" took place on July 21st and 22nd, 2006 in Würzburg, Germany, at the &b... |
| 07.07.2006 News from the Conference on Fire Safety of Rail Vehicles in Leverkusen, Germany The German Fire Safety of Rail Vehicles Conference (Brandschutztag Schienenfahrzeuge) took place at the Chemiepark Leverkusen, Germany on 31 May 2006 ... |
| 09.06.2006 New initiatives for halogen-free printed wiring board materials in the USA In the USA, there is an increasing interest in alternatives to the currently used brominated flame retardant systems in electronics, and particularly ... |
| 09.05.2006 Training Session on new trends in standardisation and regulation in the fields of transportation in Tampere, Finland In the frame of the 6th European Union Framework Programme for Research and Development, Flexifunbar is an Integrated Project dedicated to small- and ... |
| 09.04.2006 New Flammability Standard for Mattresses in the USA On 16 February 2006, the new mandatory federal flammability standard for mattresses was approved by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)... |
| 09.03.2006 Flame Retardants Conference FR 2006 The Flame Retardants Conference FR 2006 took place in London, UK, on 14th and 15th February 2006 and was attended by over 200 people. The conference ... |
| 09.02.2006 Predicting Fire Behaviour of Nanocomposites from Intrinsic Properties Within the 6th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, the "Predfire-NANO" project started on February 1st, 2005 and will t... |
| 11.01.2006 Smoke Detectors and Flame Retardants for Improving Fire Protection in Residential Buildings The German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has been entrusted by EFRA, the European Flame Retardants Association, to develo... |
