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Introduction to Flame Retardants
Flame retardants are essential in the safety of lives and property and protect the environment by preventing fires from starting or spreading. Potentially flammable materials can be treated with special additives to make them more difficult to ignite and to reduce the spread of fire. The use of flame retardants in fire safety helps to save lives and prevent injuries and property damage. By providing increased resistance to ignition, fire retardants reduce the chance of a fire starting.

To increase safety even more, if ignition does occur by chance, flame retardants will delay the spread of the flame, giving a chance to extinguish the fire or escape before it becomes too serious. If used along with fire alarms, smoke detectors and sprinklers, flame retardants provide the most effective method available of protecting life and property.

The European Flame Retardants Association recommends the use of tested and certified products.

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Fire Testing
Fire testing on flame retardant products is essential. These tests have to demonstrate that the use of flame retardants inhibits ignition and reduces combustibility, especially in the first stages of a fire. Thorough testing must be carried out on the finalized product to ensure its safety.

Flame Resistance
Technically speaking there is no such thing as a completely fireproof product; everything will burn at a high enough temperature. All products which are intended to retard flame set up a barrier to reduce the spread of flame, reduce the after burn and essentially allow the vital time required for escape from burning buildings. The majority of the time the product will contain the fire and it will die out itself. However, too many products are failing to meet the required fire code, which is why our products have undergone extensive fire safety tests at the leading test house, Warrington Fire, to the standards required by the UK Government’s Health Technical Memorandum 05-03 Part A (2008) Fire Safety in the NHS – Section 3.12.

Fire Control
Fire can strike in any part of a building at anytime. Bins can be situated anywhere in a building from kitchens and bedrooms to dining rooms and living areas. Although the majority of fires are initially very small, they spread quite rapidly by igniting textile fabrics on furnishings such as couches and chairs, and especially on curtains and drapes. Fires also spread rapidly as a result of a build up of heat, which can cause a surface flash engulfing the entire room in flames. Therefore it is imperative to have flame retardants in order to control the spread of fire.

Recycling and Disposal
Flame retarded materials can be incinerated in refuse incinerators equipped with gas cleaning installations. The flame retardants will not prevent incineration and studies show that no increased levels of dioxins are emitted into the atmosphere upon incineration.

When flame retardant products are not recycled or incinerated but sent to landfills, the environmental risk is limited as the majority of flame retardants are chemically bound into the products to which they are added.