Flame-retardants for Wood

European Market Leader in flame-retardants

EcoChem is the European market leader in the production and marketing of flame-retardant additives for flame-retardant wood composite panels:

• FR Particle Boards
• FR MDF boards
• FR OSB
• FR Plywood.

Our company offers a full range of flame-retardant additives (solids, water soluble products, liquids) which are mass incorporated during the production of the boards.

Fire test standards

These are the most common fire test standards EcoChem protected materials comply with:

Key capabilities

• State-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities and highly experienced sales force deliver world-class products and services, worldwide.
• Broad, and tailor made, product line, enabling EcoChem to serve literally all manufacturers of fire-retardant (FR) wood-based panels and cellulose based insulation materials.
• In-house laboratory for fire-class testing of the finished products. Strong expertise in local and new Euro fire class test standards.

FR Wood applications

Wood is nature's most all-round building material. It is renewable, sustainable, energy efficient, easily workable, aesthetically pleasing and has excellent mechanical properties. However, untreated wood-based panels are flammable which makes them less attractive with regard to fire safety! Treating wood panels with the correct type of flame retardant formulation can overcome this disadvantage allowing a wide range of fire retardant wood products to compete with other building materials (such as plaster boards). The main applications of FR wood based panels as we know them today:

• Internal walls, ceilings, roof constructions and furniture in public buildings (such as hotels, airports, offices, hospitals, exhibition halls, theatres, schools etc …)
• Exhibition stands at trade fairs
• Flooring in transportation applications such as railway carriages, buses and trucks
• Special packaging applications such as pallets for the chemical industry & packing cases for military equipment.