Progress in ecological flame retardant technology for textiles

With the increasingly stringent environmental regulations worldwide and the progress of sustainable development, the ecologicalization of textile flame retardant technology is imminent, and the development and application of ecological flame retardant technology and environmentally friendly flame retardants are the key. In order to promote the development of ecological textile flame-retardant technology and flame-retardant textiles, the conventional flame-retardant performance construction methods and the ecological improvement research progress in the current textile processing and molding process are summarized based on the existing achievements.The review covers spinning, weaving and finishing. At the same time, the research and application progress of new ecological flame retardant finishing technology are described. Furthermore, the promising environmentally friendly flame retardant, biomass flame retardant, its types and the research progress in textile ecological flame retardant technology are introduced. Finally, it is pointed out that the key to promote its industrial application is to solve by interdisciplinary efforts the two bottleneck problems, i.e. operational complexity and high cost. © 2021, Periodical Agency of Journal of Textile Research. All right reserved.