| EXTRA |
| THURSDAY, October 25th 2007 |
| PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL*:
Flame Retardants Fundamentals |
| From 08.00 h |
|
Registration and Welcome Coffee |
| 08.30 – 13.00 h |
Tutorial (fully booked) |
| From 13.00 h |
After-Work Reception |
| |
|
MAIN CONFERENCE
|
| THURSDAY, October 25th 2007 |
| From 13.00 h |
|
Registration and Welcome Coffee |
| 14.00 h |
Welcome Address and Conference Introduction
Dr.Sonja Schulte, Vincentz Network, Germany
|
| SESSION I: |
Status Quo and Perspectives |
| 14.15 h |
Benefit of flame retardants in high risk items on the fire safety in homes
Dr.-Ing. Anja Hofmann, BAM - Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany |
| 14.45 h |
Aged intumescent coatings
Dr. Renate Jentzsch, Institut für Lacke und Farben e.V., Germany |
| 15.15 h |
Interactive Focus Workshops & Coffee Break |
| 16.15 h |
Flame retardants and the environment - from life cycle analyses and risk assessments to REACH
Dr. Adrian Beard, Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH, Germany |
| 16.45 h |
New perspectives in fire retardant coatings
Prof. Giovanni Camino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy |
| 17.15 h |
END OF DAY 1 |
| 18.00 h |
Fire Retardant Night at the Television Tower |
| |
| >> Thursday
|
| FRIDAY, October 26th 2007 |
| 08.00 h |
|
Meet the Speakers |
| SESSION II: |
Intumescent systems and Halogen-free fire retardants |
| 09.00 h |
New developments in intumescent fire-protection-combinations for thermoplastics
Dr. Thomas Futterer, Chemische Fabrik Budenheim KG, Germany |
| 09.30 h |
++ new ++
Nanocomposite PUD's - a new concept for waterbased fire protection varnishes Markus Dimmers, Alberdingk Boley GmbH, Germany |
| 10.00 h |
Focus Workshops - Presentations |
| 10.45 h |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30 h |
Mechanism of fire protection in intumescent coatings
Dr. Sophie Duquesne, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, France |
| 12.00 h |
Novel halogen-free flame retarded thermosetting matrices - properties and applications
Paul Perez, University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| 12.30 h |
Lunch Break |
| 14.00 h |
Properties of organic phosphorus compounds and their effects on flame retardance and processing of coatings
Otto Mauerer, LANXESS Deutschland GmbH, Germany |
| 14.30 h |
Phosphorus rich polymers and mixed intumescent polymeric salts
David Aslin, Prometheus Developments Ltd, Great Britain |
| 15.00 h |
++ new ++
Supracolloidal structures through self-assembly and polymerization
Stefan A. F. Bon, University of Warwick, Great Britain |
| 15.30 h |
END OF CONFERENCE & FAREWELL COFFEE |
| |
* Please note that the pre-conference tutorial and
the main conference are two individual events! |