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DEAR READERS | ||
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Happy Holidays and a Good Start to the New Year! |
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Your positive feedback concerning our paperless e-mail newsletter launched in 2014 has proved to be highly motivating and has encouraged us to continue to provide topical articles and industry news through this channel in the coming year. Moreover, all issues published so far are available in German and English in the Newsletter Archive at the PFI website. We wish you a happy and relaxing holiday season and a
good start to a successful 2015. Dr. Kerstin Schulte P.S.: By the way, PFI will be open for business during the week between Christmas and the New Year. |
PFI Services at the Turn of the Year and During Chinese New Year Workshop: Standardisation of Shoe-size Systems Biocide Directive − Relevance for the Footwear Sector REACH: Four Phthalate Plasticisers Approach Their “Sunset Date” | |
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NEWS | ||
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PFI Germany will remain open in the last week of December; our Pirmasens laboratories will also be staffed in the week between Christmas and New Year. Our laboratories in Asia will remain open throughout the Christmas and New Year period.
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Workshop: Standardisation of Shoe-size Systems
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Biocide Directive − Relevance for the Footwear Sector
A recent information event bearing the title “Treated Goods in Biocide Legislation” held by the German Federal Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, BAuA) shed some light in the darkness. | ||
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REACH: Changes to Annex XIV
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annex XIV of
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REACH: Four Phthalate Plasticisers Approach Their “Sunset Date” The four phthalates listed in Annex XIV since February 2011, viz. di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), and diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP) will reach their scheduled sunset date on 22 February 2015 and may not be produced or used in Europe after that date, unless authorisation has been granted for the proposed use or the application for authorisation is still being processed. This prohibition applies solely to substances and mixtures, but not to products. The example of a shoe sole illustrates this situation.
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TIPS | ||
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In recent months the PFI physics laboratory has had to
investigate several cases of complaints arising from inadequate migration
fastness of leather and also of synthetic and textile upper materials.
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The bleeding colour hue is not
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Rain, snow, and slush on streets and sidewalks: the footwear salt stain season is upon us. Why do salt stains appear and what can we do about them? | ||
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RESEARCH | ||
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Supplanting Halogenation Replacement of the second-greatest source of VOC*
emissions in footwear production by an alternative method for pretreatment
prior to cementing, such as plasma or UV treatment, requires development
of a control system for reliable and continuous monitoring of the quality
of pretreatment during production. That is the goal of the PFI research project entitled “Development of UV- and Plasma-based Surface Pretreatment with NIR Spectroscopy for Process Monitoring as a Replacement for Halogenation Prior to Cementing with Dispersion Adhesives”. | ||
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Determination of the amount of release
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PFI Group Phone: +49 6331 2490 0 Chairman: Ralph Rieker Managing Director: Dr. Kerstin Schulte Authors: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Christoph Kaczmarzyk, Dr. Michael Knauer, Dr. Monika Richter, Dr. Kerstin Schulte, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Liselotte Vijselaar Editor: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Elisabeth Rouiller | Translation: Anthony J. Rackstraw B.Sc. (Hons) Please send us your comments and questions: newsletter@pfi-germany.de. | ||
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With the publication of this last 2014
issue of our Newsletter we wish to thank you for the trust you have placed
in us and for your valued cooperation during the year that is now drawing
to a close. We are eagerly looking forward to continuing our fruitful
relationship in 2015.
