Foam-padded furniture containing flame retardants burns almost as fast as identical furniture without these chemicals, officials of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Underwriters ...

San Francisco firefighters Casey McElheney and Karen Heald with their German short-haired pointer puppies Raven and Nahiku at their home in Davis, are sitting on a couch with flame retardant chemicals ...

An obscure California law effectively sets flammability standards for foam in the nation's furniture, but proposed new legislation claims flame retardants don't prevent fires and could have negative ...

Gram for gram, novel carbon nanofiber-filled coatings outperformed conventional flame retardants used in the polyurethane foam of upholstered furniture chairs, and mattresses by at least 160 percent ...

CHICAGO -- Dr. David Heimbach knows how to tell a story. Before California lawmakers last year, the noted burn surgeon drew gasps from the crowd as he described a 7-week-old baby girl who was burned ...

Woodbridge says it has developed a flame-retardant foam for a range of under-hood acoustical and thermal insulating applications, to meet what it describes as “increasingly stringent” OEM needs. The ...

Dow Global Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Midland-based Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW), Tuesday announced the invention and development of a new, high molecular weight brominated Polymeric Flame ...

They said it couldn't be done, but one car seat company proved them wrong. The first-ever "naturally-flame-resistant car seat" is now on store shelves and UPPAbaby credits passionate parents for ...

In this interview, Denis Holleyn, Technical Marketing Manager at Evonik, talks to AZoM about a novel particle foam, meeting the strictest FST and Heat Release requirements of aircraft interiors and ...