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Upholstered furniture can be a serious fire hazard.
A team of over 50 researchers from 11 European organisations studied the burning behaviour of upholstered furniture. Using standard tests, they developed models that could predict the conditions of a room fire started from furniture made from given materials. This will allow manufacturers to design safer furniture in the future. The project partners performed over 1,500 tests and this information is now available in a database. A small flame in upholstered furniture can turn into a disastrous fire in only a few minutes.