Albemarle to Buy Ferro's Flame Retardant Business.Albemarle Corp., Baton Rouge, La., has agreed to buy the Pyro-Chek flame-retardant additives business from Ferro Corp., Cleveland. Pyro-Chek brominated-PS polymeric flame retardants will be added to Albemarle's Saytex and NcendX lines of brominated FR additives. Separately, Albemarle and the Borax borax or sodium tetraborate decahydrate (sō`dēəm tĕ'trəbôr`āt dĕk'əhī`drāt), chemical compound, Na2B4O7·10H2O; sp. gr. 1. Flame Retardant Group of Valencia, Calif., have agreed to develop jointly new flame-retardant systems. They will explore new uses of zinc borate borate /bo·rate/ (bor´at) a salt of boric acid. bo·rate n. A salt or ester of boric acid. borate any salt of boric acid. (ZnB) and other borates. ZnB is used mainly in rigid PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride. PVC in full polyvinyl chloride Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide. , epoxies, and nylons. The two firms will also seek new applications for Albemarle's brominated FR agents, which are used primarily in styrenics. Joint R&D will explore PS, ABS, PBT PBT Provider Backbone Transport (networking technology adding determinism to ethernet) PBT Polybutylene Terephthalate PBT Profit Before Tax PBT Paper Based Test (education) , and PET. Another area will be polyolefin wire & cable, where borates can reduce dripping. |
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