FIRE RETARDANT COATING INNOVATION STRONG IN THE USA
March 9th, 2015
Increased demand for fire-retardant paints and coatings, and tighter regulations around the use of certain flame-retardant chemicals, is leading to a growing range of innovations in this sector. A wide range of such developments is emerging in the USA in particular, although European research is also ongoing.A report published in 2014 by the market research firm The Freedonia Group observed that the use of flame retardants in the US has increased significantly over the past few decades, with demand forecast to grow to more than USD1.6 billion by 2016, ...
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