Flame Retardants
With nearly 100 flame retardants organized by material compatibility, this may be the largest single repository of comprehensive chemical hazard assessments for flame retardants including phosphorus-based and other non-halogenated alternatives
Shared Data
Fuels Industry Transformation
ChemFORWARD, in collaboration with Apple and Google, is pleased to announce the availability of a comprehensive set of chemical hazard assessments for phosphorus-based and other non-halogenated flame retardants used in electronics. The goal of this work is to help companies move away from flame retardants with known health and environmental concerns towards those that are well characterized and verified to be safer.
Apple, Google and ChemFORWARD join forces to drive adoption of safer flame retardants
Individual effort, collective impact
ChemFORWARD’s shared repository supports users to make material selection and use decisions, avoid regrettable substitutions, stay ahead of regulation, inform consumers and NGOs, guide policy development, and lead the industry to the safe management and use of flame retardants.
The Electronics Safer Chemistry Collaborative is fundamentally changing the way that chemical hazard data is created, maintained, distributed, consumed, and financed. Individual partners work on the chemical and material classes that are most important to their business drivers and in doing so are populating a globally harmonized repository of chemical hazard assessments and safer alternatives to enable systems transformation.
While chemical hazard assessments are just one part of the decision matrix, they have traditionally been expensive, inconsistent and housed on private systems. ChemFORWARD’s globally harmonized shared repository breaks through these barriers to provide cost-effective, comprehensive, scalable screening of ingredients for suppliers.
