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FIREX™ from MinteqApplied Coating Systems offers its customers protection from fire and thermal threats to personnel and property through the use of FIREX™ coatings, manufactured by The Pyrogenics Group of Minteq International, Inc.
FIREX™ was originally developed in response to the U.S. Navy’s Cook-Off Improvement Program, launched in part because of catastrophic fires on the USS Forrestal and the USS Enterprise. The U.S. Navy now uses FIREX™ products to control potentially life-threatening situations.
The Pyrogenics Group is a technological leader in the realm of specialized fire and thermal protection coatings. Pyrogenics FIREX™ coatings have provided fire and thermal protection for personnel and property for over 30 years.
FIREX™ coatings are used to "buy time" ... critical time... for the containment and suppression of thermal threats to personnel, equipment and structures. The coatings also are used to protect surfaces exposed to high thermal flux and aerodynamic shear by intumescence or ablation. FIREX™ coatings absorb and reject thermal energy in a controlled and predictable manner.
FIREX™ coatings are used in numerous military and defense applications, including ships, tanks, military vehicles, shelters, aircraft and space vehicles. In addition, The Pyrogenics Group has teamed with the U.S. Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) to provide predictive modeling of applications based on FIREX™ products. These provide excellent test correlations. Moreover, The Pyrogenics Group can model the expected behavior of your application with its products and generate results to help guide your material selection process.
The attached video shows an aluminum panel comparison of FIREX™ protection, on the left, versus an unprotected panel, on the right. As both are heated to nearly 400º F, the treated FIREX™ aluminum is able to withstand this temperature without a significant rise in backside temperature of the panel.
>Over the years FIREX™ coatings have been utilized in numerous applications requiring fire and thermal protection. Those applications include ships, tanks, military vehicles, shelters, aircraft and space vehicles. They are especially protective in a jet fuel environment. Now FIREX™ coatings are available for chemical, oil and gas, and other applications.
