IGUS

IGUS is an internati onal group of scientific experts dealing with the explosion risks of unstable substances. IGUS was set up in 1962 with the aim to harmonise test methods used by different countries to identify and quantify the explosive properties of unstable materials. Since then, its scope has widened to thermal stability, reactivity and flammability of all kinds of unstable and reactive substances. Over the years, IGUS has continued to offer scientists who are advisers to their governments, and others, a forum to exchange data and information. This exchange takes place primarily in support of the development of classification regimes to protect society from hazards of unstable substances and to remove barriers to international trade. One of the main goals of this exchange has always been to understand and quantify the resulting effects (such as the explosion effect as shown right) from accidents involving dangerous goods... IGUS is the International Group of Experts on the..