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Fire Retardancy Webinar Series

The Testing Textiles for Fire Retardancy webinar, organised by the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI), will take place on 23 February 2016.

18th January 2016

Innovation in Textiles
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Protective, Clothing/​Footwear, Industrial

The moderator will be Haskell Beckham, PhD. Speakers include Alex Morgan, PhD, from the University of Dayton Research Institute, and Andrew Blum, P.E., CFEI.

Dr Morgan has experience in the areas of materials flammability, polymeric material flame retardancy, fire science, fire testing, and fire safety engineering with an emphasis on chemical structure property relationships and fire safe material design. He has worked with academic, government, and industrial clients.  Dr Morgan sits on the editorial review boards for two fire safety journals (Fire and Materials, Journal of Fire Science). He also holds membership in ASTM International, Sigma Xi, and the American Chemical Society.

Mr Blum practices fire protection engineering principles and applies them towards investigations involving fires, explosions, and other engineering failures or thermal events.  He has investigated residential and commercial losses, as well as manufacturing, food processing, power generation, hospitality, and apartment/condominium facilities. Blum has experience with both nationally and internationally accepted fire testing standards, including NFPA, ASTM, ISO, UL, and CFR. He also has background in flammability testing on textiles, garments, polymers, and other building/product materials.

For more information, please contact Omari Hoover on  [email protected] .

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