With the increasing awareness of global safety and environmental protection, people's requirements for fire safety and flame retardant products are becoming higher and higher, and halogen-free, low-smoke, low-toxic environmentally friendly flame retardants have become people's goals.

At present, nearly 80% of domestic flame retardants for plastic modification are halogen-containing flame retardants, including polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polybrominated biphenyls. Brominated flame retardants have high efficiency and small amounts, and affect the performance of materials. Small and affordable. Compared with other types of flame retardants, its efficiency / price ratio is more superior. 70% to 80% of China's electrical and electronic products for export use such flame retardants. However, the bromine-antimony flame retardant system generates a large amount of soot and corrosive gases during thermal cracking and combustion, and in recent years, some EU countries believe that bromine flame retardants will produce toxic and carcinogenic polybrominated benzobenzoxine (PBDD) ) And polybrominated dibenzofuran (PBDF). In February 2003, the EU introduced two bans, RoHS and WEEE, of which RoHs is a ban restricting harmful substances. It stipulates that from January 1, 2006, in EU countries, All electrical and electronic equipment sold must not contain PBDEs or PBDEs.

With the increase of people's awareness of health and environmental protection, it is an inevitable trend for the flame retardant industry to seek environmentally friendly, low toxicity, high efficiency, and multifunctional flame retardants. Inorganic flame retardants represented by metal hydroxides are undergoing a linear growth trend in the world flame retardant market. Some brominated flame retardants will still play an important role due to their excellent flame retardancy. In the 21st century, The era marked by the electronic information industry, the production and sales of a large number of electronic and electrical products, also provides a hotbed for the research and development and production of organic phosphine flame retardants, especially alkyl phosphinates, making it a very promising future New environmentally friendly flame retardant.

The advancement of modern science and technology and the worldwide emphasis on safety and environmental protection have made people's requirements for flame retardant materials higher and higher, and promoted the rapid development of flame retardant research, production, promotion and application. Increasingly, output has risen sharply. At present, according to rough estimates, 65% to 70% of global flame retardants are used for flame retardant plastics, 20% are used for rubber, 5% are used for textiles, 3% are used for coatings, and 2% are used for paper and wood. Freedonia Group, a well-known economic market research company in the United States, reports that the annual demand for flame retardants in the world will increase at a rate of 4.7% within three years in 2011, and the annual growth rate will be higher than 4.1% from 2001 to 2006. Demand will increase from 1.75 billion tons in 2006 to 2.21 billion tons in 2011. The total market trade by 2011 is expected to reach $ 4.5 billion (3.2 billion euros). Among them, the Asia-Pacific region, North America and Western Europe will grow at an annual rate of 7.3%, 3.2% and 2.2% respectively, and China will account for the majority in the Asia-Pacific region. It can be seen that the overall market prospect of flame retardants is good.