ICL have announced that its ICL Advanced Additives business unit (“ICL AA”) was awarded a $6.2M contract from the US Air Force (USAF) to supply 418,000 gallons of ICL AA’s Phos-Chek firefighting foam for firefighting vehicles and fire station foam stocks.
The USAF selected ICL AA’s Phos-Chek product based on its reduced environmental impact as well as ICL AA’s ability to meet stringent US military specifications and to provide favorable delivery and price terms. Phos-Chek is being produced for the USAF by ICL AA’s Fire Safety Division and will be delivered over a ten-week period that began in late August.
ICL is a global leader in fire protection product offerings with its world class Phos-Chek and Auxquimia brand foams for the firefighting community. The company’s full service fire protection product offerings include Class B products for flammable liquid fire protection and Class A products for hazards such as wood and paper, as well as a range of fire retardants for use in containing wild land fires. The contract with the USAF demonstrates ICL’s strong reputation among the firefighting community.
The USAF is replacing its legacy Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) stocks to minimize their impact on the environment. ICL’s Phos-Chek 3% AFFF MilSpec foam is a next-generation, environmentally-responsible firefighting foam that is perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)-free and contains only trace amounts of perfluorooctonoaic acid (PFOA). Phos-Chek was the first C6 fluorosurfactant-based foam to pass the US military’s rigorous Mil-F-24385 fire test standard and to be listed on its Qualified Products List (QPL). Mil-F-24385 requires the foam to pass multiple fire tests with both fresh and salt water and to conform to chemical and physical specification as well as other stringent conditions.
About ICL
ICL is a global manufacturer of products based on specialty minerals that fulfill humanity’s essential needs primarily in three markets: agriculture, food and engineered materials. ICL is a public company whose shares are dual listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (NYSE and TASE: ICL). The company employs approximately 13,000 people worldwide, and its sales in 2015 totaled US$5.4 billion. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.icl-group.com.
About ICL Advanced Additives
ICL Advanced Additives, a business unit of ICL, produces phosphoric acid, phosphate and phosphorus-based intermediates, ingredients used in the manufacture of numerous industrial and consumer products ranging from fire safety products, electronics, lubricants, asphalt, construction materials and paints & coatings to pulp & paper, motor oils and beverages. ICL Advanced Additives’ main product lines include fire safety products, technical phosphates and specialties from the P2S5 and P2O5 chain, purified phosphoric acid and numerous specialty products. The ICL business unit has a broad, diversified customer base that includes many blue-chip clients and chemical distributors.
For more information, go to www.icl-group.com
