End User Focus: Minerals’ flame gain
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Published: Monday, 25 July 2011
The emerging markets’ hunger for commodities promises to drive long-term demand for flame retardants with mineral raw materials underpinning this sector, as Professor Roger Rothon discusses here
Flame retardant additives are a very important business
sector, with annual world sales estimated at over 1.5m. tonnes
and a value of about €2bn. The importance of some minerals
as flame retardants - such as aluminium hydroxide -
is well known and has been discussed in some recent IM articles
(see IM...