The invention relates to improvements of a
magnesium hydroxide flame retardant and a
flame retardant
polymer for cables. Natural
magnesium hydroxide with the Mg(OH)2 content being not smaller than 96wt percent is adopted, and micro
powder with a mean grain size of 0.5-1
micrometer is obtained through physical ultrafine
grinding and grading; then 0.8-3wt percent of
coupling agent is added, and an obtained mixture is stirred at a high speed, sufficiently mixed and then subjected to secondary
surface processing by high-pressure airflows in a
jet mill so as to obtain the
magnesium hydroxide flameretardant with good smoothness and basically no aggregates; and the magnesium hydroxide
flame retardant can smoothly flow like vegetable seeds under pushing by external forces. A
polyolefin flame retardant
polymer for cables is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 100 parts of
polyolefin, 100-150 parts of
submicron scale magnesium hydroxide, 2-10 parts of oxosilane, 0.2-1 part of antioxygen, 1-10 parts of
processing aid and 0-6 parts of functional aid. The flame retardant
polymer for cables has the following parameters: the
oxygen index (OI) is up to 36-42, the tensile strength is not smaller than 10Mpa, the breaking elongation rate is not smaller than 200 percent, and the volume resistivity is not smaller than 10*1,015. The
cracking resistance of the flame retardant polymer for cables is good, and the flame retardant polymer for cables cannot crack within one hour at a temperature of 130 DEG C and exceed the standard of the JB10707-2007 low-
smoke non-
halogen flame-retardant cable material. The flame retardant polymer for cables has good
extrusion manufacturability and wide
extrusion temperature range and can be effectively extruded at a temperature of 165-190 DEG C. The
extrusion torque is small and reduced by 30 percent, thus the flame retardant polymer for cables can be smoothly extruded out by original equipment without a special screw rod.