Fire Retardant Plastics for the Electrical Industry

Because of the possible toxic effects of antimony and halogen containing fire retardant polymers in the event of an electrical fire, efforts are now being made to produce fire retardant plastics for the electrical industry, which do not contain these types of fire retardants. 

lEC TC 112, Evaluation and Qualification of Electrical Insulating Materials and Systems. 

VDE 0471-2-10, Fire Hazard Testing - Part 2-10 Glowing/Hot-Wire Based Test Methods Glow-wire Apparatus and Common Test Procedures, 2001. 

Zhang and Y. Zhang, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2005, 98,3,1142. 

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