FRX Polymers’ Flame Retardants Granted a GreenScreen Benchmark 3 Score for Electronic Devices

Three polymeric phosphorus-based flame retardants (FRs) from FRX Polymers; polymer-compounders.com/en/-- Nofia CO3000, CO4000 and CO6000, have been granted a GreenScreen 3 Benchmark score, one of the industry’s highest green non-toxic indicators of ESG compliance. GreenScreen is one of the most broadly recognized methods of comparative benchmarking chemical toxicity in the chemical industry. It is well recognized across the global electronics supply chain, being referenced and relied upon by many green NGOs and major OEMs, with Hewlett Packard being one of the earliest adopters.

According to the company, this certification comes at an opportune time as it complements a series of recent actions taken by the European Union, as part of its Eco-design regulation, and by the State of New York, which bans the use of all brominated FRs in consumer electronic displays such as TVs and monitors. The Nofia FRs are said to offer uniquely offer the assurance of the coveted GreenScreen Benchmark 3 score, without compromising fire safety while simultaneously achieving exceptional and often superior physical properties. These copolymer grades of Nofia join the other homopolymer grades of Nofia flame retardants previously granted a GreenScreen Benchmark 3, suitable for the most demanding high flow, molding and/or sheet extrusion applications.

FRX is actively selling its products to key industry leaders such as the U.K.’s Polymer Compounders Ltd., who recently launched Notoxicom, a product based on Nofia flame retardants targeting plastics flame retarded with brominated flame retardants in electronic and medical device applications, including electronic displays, as well as the rapidly growing lithium-ion battery market.

Said FRX CEO Marc Lebel, “The new EU and US legislation will cause an industry-wide transformation to green flame retardant formulations in consumer products and will quickly materialize into significant demand for non-brominated fire retardants, especially polymeric solutions like Nofia. We are already seeing compliance with this initiative being both pushed by national consumer electronics retailers in the US and responded to by leading OEM manufacturers throughout the world. This is just the start of an important shift away from hazardous flame retardants into solutions that offer the same flame retardant efficacy, without the health and environmental liabilities.”