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SMOKE SUPPRESSANT ADDITIVE FOR LOW-SMOKE PVC APPLICATIONS
26 June 2003 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation
| Great Lakes Chemical Corporation has launched Smokebloc AOM-100 smoke suppressant and flame retardant additive for rigid and flexible PVC applications with low-smoke requirements. |
Smokebloc AOM-100 smoke suppressant and flame retardant additive, an ammonium octamolybdate, effectively reduces the amount of aromatic species released as smoke when charring occurs during a fire. Smokebloc AOM-100 smoke suppressant and flame retardant additive is ideally suited for PVC applications where smoke emission is a critical issue, such as public buildings, aircraft, and mass transit vehicle interiors, and where products must meet tight flammability and smoke production specifications. 'Smokebloc AOM-100 smoke suppressant is generating strong interest in many industries where low-smoke standards are in place,' said Bill Neagle, Great Lakes' vice president of business management for flame retardants. 'This product was designed so that our customers could meet or exceed specifications such as the UL910 standard for wire and cable products installed in ducts, plenum, and other spaces that are used to transport environmental air and the ASTM E84 standard for products used in building and construction.' Smokebloc AOM-100 can also be used as a partial replacement for antimony trioxide flame retardant in smoke critical applications.
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About: Great Lakes Chemical Corporation
Great Lakes Chemical Corp’s products and services help treat and purify water, eliminate germs and contaminants from household surfaces, protect against and extinguish fire, and enhance the stability and performance of a wide range of consumer products, such as computers, electronics, cars, packaging, building materials, and furniture. It serve its customers around the world through an integrated network of research, production, sales, distribution and technical services facilities. The stock of the company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Great Lakes Chemical Corporation is the world’s leading producer of certain specialty chemicals for such applications as water treatment, household cleaners, flame retardants, polymer stabilizers, fire suppression, and performance chemicals. Through its Polymer Additives division, Great Lakes offers a full line of UV stabilizers, antioxidants, additive blends , nucleating agents/clarifiers, and optical monomers, as well as a leading line of flame retardants that include bromine-, phosphorus-, and antimony-based flame retardants and other synergists. These are available as powder blends or in NDB (No Dust Blend) granular form. Each blend contains exactly the correct composition of additives required to achieve optimum polymer quality and productivity. |
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