With the circular economy proving an increasingly important topic for the FR supply chain, just what is the industry doing to face the global challenge of sustainability? A driver for development in the plastics industry as a whole, industry presentations at the Fire Resistance in Plastics Virtual Summit will show flame retardants have a role to play in this international consumer trend.
Ahead of their presentations on 23 – 25 February, we were delighted to interview three of our expert speakers who will each share their take on the challenges involved in achieving sustainability.
Marc Leifer, Global Technical Marketing Support Manager, ICL-IP
Marc has held the position of Global TMS Manager at ICL-IP FR SBU since 2011, with over 30 years' experience in the field of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers' formulation, transformation processes, analysis and properties assessment.
Together with Lein Tange, Sustainability Director at ICL-Europe, Marc will present on how plastics with FRs can form part of a circular economy, with a look at some of the technical and economic challenges involved.
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Adrian Beard, Chairman (Europe), PINFA
Adrian is a senior expert in fire safety and environmental properties of phosphorus-based flame retardants. Since 2017, he has chaired the association for non-halogenated phosphorus, inorganic and nitrogen flame retardants (pinfa), a sector group of Cefic.
His presentation will offer a second industry perspective on the sustainability of flame retardants and the challenges they will face in the coming decade.
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Kevin Bradley, Secretary General, BSEF
Kevin is currently Secretary General of BSEF, the International Bromine Council who support and promote the role of bromine and bromine technologies as enablers for society and economy globally.
He will be sharing the outcomes and implications of the SOFIES study for polymer producers and the FR industry in terms of the circular economy and the push for sustainable FRs.
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About the Fire Resistance in Plastics Virtual Summit
This fully online event will replace the live conference which was unable to take place as scheduled in December 2020. The summit runs with the support of Headline Sponsor ICL-IP, Gold Sponsors Clariant Plastics & Coatings GmbH, Funzionano AS and PINFA, and Silver Sponsor Thor GmbH and Georg H. Luh.
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