Graphite One to develop new fire suppressant
long-standing foam fire suppres - sants which are known to have tox- ic impacts on human health and the environment,” said Anthony Huston, President and CEO of Graphite One. “This DLA contract underscores the importance of graphite for inno - vative technology applications beyond the renewable energy markets — an important part of Graphite One’s ad - vanced graphite materials strategy.” Since the beginning of the 1990s expandable graphite has been used as a halogen-free, environmen- tally friendly flame retardant and fire protection additive. Expand - able graphite is a natural graphite in which a chemical process is used to introduce water-insoluble salts into
its layer structure, which, when ex- posed to heat, ensures an enormous and rapid increase in volume. This property qualifies the material for its use in fire protection. Graphite One will execute the DLA project with Vorbeck Materials, Corp. of Maryland, under the terms of the G1-Vorbeck teaming agreement an- nounced on June 19, 2023. “Vorbeck is excited to work with Graphite One to develop new and safer alternatives for the existing PFAS fire-suppressants for the DLA, ´ Vorbeck CEO John Lettow said. “Vorbeck’s strong experience in cre - ating new formulations based on
$4.7M DoD contract underscores graphite's use in innovation Graphite One Inc. has announced it has received a $4.7 million con- tract from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics Agency (“DLA”) to develop a graphite and graphene-based foam fire suppres - sant as an alternative to incumbent PFAS fire-suppressant materials, as required by U.S. law. “Graphite One is pleased to be - gin work on this Defense Logistics Agency project, which responds to the legally-mandated requirement to develop a new alternative to
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