Abstract
A. Beard
Dr. Adrian Beard
Advocacy Flame Retardants, Segment E-Mobility & Electronics, Clariant Plastics & Coatings (Germany) GmbH, Chemiepark Knapsack, Germany
Lecture Title: Clariant’s Phosphorus-based Flame Retardants – The story of Exolit® and how to deal with increasing sustainability and performance requirements
Abstract:
A look back in history: how phosphorus flame retardants developed at the Knapsack site near Cologne, Germany
The success story of phosphinate flame retardants
Increasing performance requirements are challenging
The chemical regulatory landscape for flame retardants - Can we make flame retardants Safe and Sustainable-by-Design?
What is the future? Polymer-bound and bio-based flame retardants?