Fire Protection
Fire Protection
Comprehensive Passive Fire Protection from PPG
We provide advanced Passive Fire Protection (PFP) solutions to safeguard your cruitical assets and help ensure the safety of your personnel. Recognizing that each project has unique challenges, we collaborate with customers to identify specific needs and provide customized solutions for both cellulosic and hydrocarbon fires.
Identifying Your Passive Fire Protection Needs
Our experienced engineers are experts in passive fire protection, knowing the ins and outs of intumescent coatings while staying up-to-date with relevant industry standards and fire ratings. Global engineering teams are here to support you from the initial stages of project planning through successful completion, providing architects, engineers, and project stakeholders with the peace of mind to design and build safely and efficiently.
Our expertise extends to various industries, including infrastructure, energy (oil & gas, renewables, traditional power), manufacturing facilities and commercial buildings, focusing on protecting structural steel in these critical applications.
Contact us today to discuss your project requirements.
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Cellulosic Fire Protection
Our excellent fire protection is delivered with specially formulated intumescent coatings designed to expand at high temperatures to insulate steel from cellulosic fire.
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Hydrocarbon Passive Fire Protection
Trusted to provide PFP technology to protect critical structures and equipment in hazardous environments while meeting the challenges of complex hydrocarbon fire scenarios that can potentially involve pool fires, jet fires and explosions in both onshore and offshore environments.
Featured Products
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PPG PITT-CHAR® NX
Representing a major advance in hydrocarbon passive fire protection that is safer, tougher, thinner, lighter and faster. PPG PITT-CHAR NX is our next generation flexible epoxy intumescent coating system formulated with patent-pending technology.
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PPG STEELGUARD® 701 and 801
These advanced coatings are part of our leading cellulosic fire protection range. They are solvent-based reactive intumescent coatings that have been specifically developed to target 30- and 60-minute fire scenarios.
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PPG STEELGUARD® 651
This new waterborne thin-film intumescent coating for up to 120 minutes cellulosic fire protection has been tested and certified to the latest international standards and comply with the most stringent environmental regulations.
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PPG STEELGUARD® 703/803
New range of thin-film intumescent coatings, designed to protect I, H beams and columns (open sections), providing up to 45 minutes’ cellulosic fire protection. These highly protective coatings expand at extreme temperatures, transforming from an ultra-thin film into a thick, foam-like layer that insulates the steel from cellulosic fire.
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Albi Protective Coatings
Albi offers a variety of UL approved thin-film intumescent coatings as well as fire resistant materials. Please click on the link for more details.
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Tikkurila Fontefire ST-60-1
Following Tikkurilla's integration into the PPG family, Fontefire ST-60-1 is now available to compliment the PPG Steelguard range of cellulosic intumescent products. Please click on the link for more details.
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PPG Fire Protection Solution for Electric Vehicles
From PPG's automotive division, CORACHAR™ SE 4000 is a coating developed for electric vehicles that provides safety and performance standards for a wide range of applications, including battery pack assemblies and energy storage devices. Our extensive experience with fire protection puts passenger and first responder safety first, and the CoraChar™ SE 4000 series coating continues PPG's strong legacy of trusted technology and high-quality coating applications.
