Flame Retardant Masterbatch

Plastics containing flame retardants are found in homes, office buildings, cars and mass-transit vehicles, furnishings, fibers, household appliances, and many other applications. In general, their use is mandated by regulations in building codes or industry specific standards. Additional examples of plastic products that require flame retardants include construction fabrics, banner films, ceiling insulation, roofing and siding, carpet backing, automotive fabrics, components in trains and planes, tent materials, stadium seating, mattress covers, television and computer housings, electric wiring, power cable, and conduit for tunnels. For a fire to begin, fuel, oxygen, and a source of ignition must be present high concentration Flame Retardant  masterbatches  ,including halogen-based and halogen-free solutions work by interfering with one or more of these fundamentals, either physically or chemically.

Those having a physical effect either cool the substrate below its combustion temperature, form a solid or gaseous protective layer that excludes oxygen, or add inert gases that dilute the fuel in its gaseous phase. Those that act chemically interrupt the process by reacting with elements in the gaseous phase or shield the polymer by forming a carbonaceous surface layer. Organic halogenated compounds can be  especially bromine-based types  and Chlorinated flame retardants . Non-Halogenated Flame Retardants can be the phosphorous types or “char formers” and the metal oxides or “endothermic” types.