Great Lakes Solutions Introduces Innovative Polymeric Flame Retardant

Great Lakes Solutions, Chemtura’s subsidiary and a global provider of safe and cost-effective flame retardant products for electrical enclosures, electronic components and building products, has expanded its Emerald product line with the addition of new polymeric flame retardant.

The Emerald 3000 is a sustainable product and ideal for extruded polystyrene foam (XPS) and expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) insulation.

The new brominated polymeric flame retardant is an alternative to commonly utilized flame retardant products in XPS or EPS foam insulation. The Emerald 3000 provides fire safety and high-performance benefits to customers in the electronics, electrical and building and construction industries. One of the advantages of the new flame retardant is it allows easy substitution in current manufacturing technologies with minimal alterations and also sustains fire safety performance similar to other efficient flame retardants that are currently used.

Great Lakes Solutions has expanded its production capacity in interim facility to meet the growing commercial demand. The company has received encouraging feedback and requisition for large-scale samples from customers to qualify the flame retardant product.