New innovations, such as halogen-free, bromine-based polypropylene compounds launched by Sirmax North America in 2024, are revolutionizing flame retardant materials. Certified with UL Yellow Card ...

The manufacture of everything from toothbrushes to autoparts can benefit from the use of atmospheric plasma treatment and flame treatment during assembly and decorating operations. These technologies ...

Flame retardants added for decades to thousands of consumer products in the United States may raise the risk of dying from cancer, according to new research. People with the highest levels of ...

The manufacture of everything from toothbrushes to autoparts can benefit from the use of atmospheric plasma and flame surface treatment during assembly and decorating operations. These technologies ...

General Motors is introducing a flame treatment technology that lets paint stick to plastic vehicle parts like instrument and door panels without using primers that contain solvents and can pollute ...

Silicone adhesives, along with primers, flame treatment, or plasma treatment, can be used to adhere low-surface-energy plastics to high-strength metals. For this article, several low-surface-energy ...

Plasma is generated by applying a high-frequency voltage to a gas within a low-pressure chamber using electrodes. When substrates, especially plastics, are exposed to this plasma, their surface energy ...

Increased use of low-density materials such as polymers and polymer composites is one way of developing the lightweight vehicles of the future, to achieve the forthcoming strict legislation on ...