Pierre Georlette

New flame retardant systems for styrenic plastics and method of preparation

Brominated flame retardants are known for their very efficient role in saving lives and goods due to their optimal combination of properties. They are found in many places in our daily lives and they are vital to the modern electronics industry. Large quantities of styrenic copolymers are used in the electronic industry to produce housings for television sets, PC monitors and printing machines. These applications are very demanding in terms of weight reduction, impact strength, in some case color stability and above all cost reduction. New flame retardant systems developed by the Dead Sea Bromine Group to cope with this challenge will be discussed in this paper. Moreover these new flame retardants are not related to diphenyl oxide chemistry in order to satisfy users who may be sensitive to this.