Prospects for environmentally friendly flame retardants

Seeking environmental protection, low toxicity, high efficiency, and multifunctional flame retardants has become an affirmative trend in the flame retardant industry. Inorganic flame retardants represented by metal hydroxides are in a linear growth trend in the world flame retardant market, with the increase of people's awareness of environmental protection. Some brominated flame retardants will still play an important role due to their excellent flame retardant properties. In the 21st century marked by the electronic information industry, a large number of electronic and electrical products are produced and sold, and they are also organic phosphine flame retardants. In particular, the research and development and production of alkylphosphinate provide a hotbed, making it a new type of environmentally friendly flame retardant with great development prospects.

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.