Interior components in rail vehicles must meet defined fire protection requirements. The corresponding DIN EN 45545-2 has been revised in 2020 and new fire protection requirements were added for the …
Wood is an excellent building material and can bind carbon for a long time when used in buildings thereby stopping carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere.The use of …
It is important to enhance the fire retardant properties of wood. Although it was mentioned in several literature that the phosphate based fire retardants (FR) leaches out from wood easily, …
Fire retardant treated (FRT) timber can be produced by impregnation under high pressure with aqueous guanyl-urea phosphate (GUP) and BA (Gao et al., 2006). However, neither GUP nor BA is …
Development of fire retardants (FRs) for wood spans over several decades. Commercial FRs for wood are available, however, most of them have problems with performance, emissions, or other issues. Halogenated …
It has been suggested that the leachability of the water-borne fire-retardants (FRs) guanylurea phosphate (GUP)/boric acid (BA) in treated wood could be reduced with the help of melamine formaldehyde (MF) …
Plywood has high structural strength, dimensional stability and other sought-after mechanical properties and as a result, the production of plywood has increased significantly over previous decades (FAO of the UN, …
As part of the European project BASAJAUN (Building a Sustainable Joint between Rural and Urban Areas through Circular and Innovative Wood Construction Value Chains), our objective was to develop thermoplastic …
This study comprises a brief screening of various organic salts to their suitability to act as fire retardant treatment of wood. It could be demonstrated that organic salts reduce the …
