Flame Retardant Fabric

Amazing flame retardant fabrics！ As we know, all fabrics will burn; however, some fabrics are easier to burn than others. For example, Natural fiber fabric such as cotton, silk and linen are much easier to get burn than wool. Flame retardant fabrics are textiles that are naturally more resistant to fire than others through chemical treatment or manufactured fireproof fibers.

Factors of The Flame Retardant Fabric

Let’s discover secrets of the flame retardant fabric. What are the factors to affect the burn to fabrics? The weight and weave of fabric can affect the material to ignite and burn. The flame retardant fabric is made of tightly woven fabric that is suggested to be more difficult to burn. Study shows, “Heavy, tight weave fabrics will burn more slowly than loose weave, light fabrics of the same material.” Another factor is the fabric surface designing also affect flammability. Long, loose, fluffy pile surface fabrics more easily to get burn than hard tight surface fabric. Sometimes, the long, loose and fluffy pile surface even caused flame flashing across the fabric surface.

Types of The Flame Retardant Fabric

The flame retardant fabric includes many synthetic fabrics, especially for nylon, polyester and acrylic, they are not that ease to ignite. It sounds like a good flame retardant fabric material. However, those synthetics would melt when they get fire. The melting creates very hot and sticky substance which may cause even more serious burn. How about blended nature and synthetic fabrics? Nature and Synthetic blended fabrics are considered to create serious damage and more wounds as it combines the high rate of burning and fabric melting. In some cases, this type of fabric is suggested to be most wounds.

Applications of The Flame Retardant Fabric

Flame retardant fabrics are applied widely in our life. The home furnishing products such as curtains, draperies and other articles are classified as flame retardant fabric as long as it has the ability to resist certain degree of ignition and flame. There are 2 ways to gain such function. One is applied through fiber and the other one is by chemical treatment. Libolon flame retardant fabric is a good example to add special non-toxic phosphonium agent to the fiber to get the effect. Flame retardant fabric with chemical treatment is broadly used in home furnishing industry. However, this chemical treatment is not suggested to apparel.

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