- Author
- Clarke, F. B., III
- Title
- Future of Fire Retardants in Plastics.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Fire Retardant Chemicals Association and Society of Plastics Engineers. Problems and Solutions--A Conference/Workshop. March 12-15, 1978, Fire Retardant Chemicals Assoc., Westport, CT, Houston, TX, 1-8 p., 1978
- Keywords
- plastics | fire retardants | additives | fire research
- Abstract
- Good Afternoon. The subject under discussion is "The Future of Flame Retardants in Plastics." For openers, let me say that I believe the future of flame retardants in plastics is inseparable from the future plastics themselves. There is no obvious distinction between flame retardant additives and any other additives to alter the performance of a polymeric material. So my remarks this afternoon will deal with a more fundamental issue, of which the fire retardant question is one aspect. That issue is our ability to measure the performance (specifically the fire performance) of materials (specifically plastics).