Flame retardants and polymer stabilisers on show
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Dec 19, 2002
The latest additions to the Great Lakes Chemical Corp range of flame retardants and polymer stabilisers for polyurethane applications will be presented at Utech 2003 in The Hague next March.
The latest additions to the Great Lakes Chemical Corp range of flame retardants and polymer stabilisers for polyurethane applications will be presented at Utech 2003 in The Hague next March.
Greater performance requirements and improved aesthetics, together with changes in regulatory standards, processing methods and environmental issues, are increasing the challenges faced by today's manufacturers of polyurethane.
Suppliers of additives into the polyurethane industry must allow the polyurethane manufacturer to meet these challenges without adversely affecting the physical properties of their product.
Against this background, Great Lakes has developed two new flame retardants and two polymer stabiliser blends.
Firemaster 2100, a bromine-based flame retardant, has been added to the selection of Great Lakes' flame retardants for thermoplastic polyurethane.
Firemaster 2100 is used in combination with Great Lakes' antimony trioxide to provide a cost effective, non-diphenyl-oxide-based additive allowing UL94V0 flame test performance.
A recent addition to Great Lakes' halogen-free flame retardant products is Reofos NHP, a scorch-free, low-fogging flame retardant for flexible automotive foams that maintains excellent physical properties during ageing.
Reofos NHP will be featured in a technical paper to be presented at the Utech conference entitled "A new approach to flame retarded polyurethane foams for automotive applications".
Automotive applications are also the target for new polymer stabiliser blends: Lowilite UV B1211 and Lowilite UV B1260.
These are liquid blends of thermal and light stabilisers offering low fogging and excellent thermal protection.
Lowilite UV B1211 is particularly suitable for interior, flexible integral skin automotive applications, and Lowilite UV B1260 is suited to outdoor, integral skin applications.
Great Lakes offers a broad range of additives for polyurethane that includes reactive and additive, bromine-, phosphorus- and antimony-based flame retardants and synergists, as well as a full line of UV absorbers, hindered amine light stabilisers, and antioxidants which ensure the physical and mechanical properties of components are maintained and significantly extend the life of polyurethane products.
Great Lakes' polymer additives are suitable for a wide selection of polyurethane applications including rigid foam, flexible integral skin and flexible foams, thermoplastic polyurethane, polyurethane fibre and coatings, and polyurethane based adhesives and sealants.
Great Lakes will exhibit on stand 406 at Utech 2003.
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