{"id":281,"date":"2020-02-18T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haztec.wpengine.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2020-05-27T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:43:48","slug":"flame-resistant-retardant-treated-inherent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/flame-resistant-retardant-treated-inherent\/","title":{"rendered":"Flame Resistant, Retardant, Treated &#038; Inherent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2>A Brief Overview<\/h2>\n<p>The terms Resistant, Retardant, Treated and Inherent are often used when describing FR Workwear or FR Fabrics, and there is often confusion around the meaning of these words.<\/p>\n<p>It appears from some quick web searches that the term &#8216;Resistant&#8217; is more recently being used to convey &#8216;Inherent&#8217; FR fabrics, and the word &#8216;Retardant&#8217; is being used for fabrics that have FR properties that are achieved by applying chemical Treatments to the fabrics (for example, the brand names of treatments such as Proban).<\/p>\n<p>In our view, &#8216;Retardant&#8217; does convey the idea of the application of a flame retarding chemical to a fabric. But having done this, the fabric is in fact &#8216;Resistant&#8217; to Flame Spread (or burning). However, to summarise, at HAZTEC we work with the following combinations of words where possible.<\/p>\n<h3>Retardant and Treated<\/h3>\n<p>Use of a chemical finish to a fabric to create a fabric that we then refer to as <strong>Flame Retardant<\/strong> by use of a <strong>Treatment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There are no Flame Retardant, Treated garments in the HAZTEC range however. For products with these properties, refer to ORKA Technical Workwear, another Hazchem Safety Ltd brand.<\/p>\n<h3>Resistant and Inherent<\/h3>\n<p>Use of fibres and yarns that are inherently FR that we then refer to as <strong>Flame Resistant<\/strong> by use of <strong>Inherent<\/strong> fibres.<\/p>\n<p>All HAZTEC FR Workwear garments feature Flame Resistant, Inherent fabrics.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,103,105,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haztecworkwear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}