The aim of this research is to develop and upscale innovative products that enhance nature’s best fire retardants: lignins and tannins. To ensure that these novel products are safe and sustainable, while retaining their desired technological functionality, they will be thoroughly assessed by applying the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework at different stages of their development and the results will be iteratively fed into the further design and optimisation of the technologies. Involving the full material value chain, these flame retardants will be upscaled to a prototype in operational environment and demonstrated in four sectors of application (naval, railway, home appliances and wood coatings).
More specifically, Certech’s tasks in the project are:
– Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) and odours characterization of flame retarded materials
– End-of-Life validation activities, including mechanical recycling evaluation of thermoset and thermoplastic materials formulated with the new biobased flame retardants.
The consortium includes 22 international partners from Spain, Poland, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, Cyprus, Belgium, and Türkiye.
