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Melapur - Flame retardants - BASF SE

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Tradename: Melapur
Family: Flame retardants
Producer: BASF SE
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Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Additives
...rket for melamine compounds (e.g. melamine cyanurate) that can also be used in combination with other flame retardants, such as magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2 or MH), or even with fillers such as talc. Melamine polyphosphate (grade: Melapur 200, manufacturer: DSM) has excellent thermal stability and is thus also suitable for PA66-GF. Another halogen-free and particularly environmentally-compatible alternative are the metal hydroxides of ATH and MH. These only have any effect at high concentrations...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Flame Retardants
... the European competition authorities. This makes Albemarle the market leader for aluminium and magnesium-hydroxide mineral flame retardants. In May 2002, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Basel/Switzerland, announced the acquisition of DSM Melapur Flame Retardants. In addition to the Flamstab technology used in flame retardant polyolefins for outdoor use, Ciba now has the melamine-based flame retardant systems that are used primarily in polyamide. Innovations in Flame Retardants It should first be p...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-08-19, Eco-Friendly Fire Prevention
...dants (manufacturer: Clariant SE, Muttenz, Switzerland), which are based on organic phosphinates (mainly aluminum diethyl phosphinate, abbreviated to DEPAL), are frequently used in combination with melamine polyphosphate, abbreviated to MPP (e. g. Melapur 200, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, or Budit 3141, Chemische Fabrik Budenheim KG, Budenheim, Germany). Alternative melamine derivatives that are claimed to offer technical and price advantages over MPP are now also available on the market as f...


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