Fire fighting foams
ChemSystems received another clear audit from Dr Sthamer Hamburg
Seen here at the official certificate handover is Mason Naidoo of Chem Systems, Jan Knappert of Dr Sthamer, André Schutte of ChemSystems, Dr Matthias Prall of Dr Sthamer, Gerhard Saffy, Louise Peplar and Hugo Basson from Chemsystems.
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he ChemSystems manufacturing plant at Chem Park in Chloorkop, Johannesburg, has received another clear audit from Dr Sthamer Hamburg. The biennale
audit took place in June this year with representatives of Dr Sthamer Hamburg facilitating the audit. ChemSystems, a division of AECI Ltd, are manufacturers of fire fighting compounds including
Dr Matthias Prall of Dr Sthamer and Hugo Basson of Chemsystems
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wetting agents, synthetic class A and B as well as AFFF for polar and non-polar resistant applications since 1970. The company has been manufacturing Dr Sthamer Hamburg fire fighting foams for more than 30 years. Chem Systems is also the only plant manufacturing Dr Sthamer fire fighting foams outside of Hamburg in Germany. ChemSystems manufactures its own range of Class A and B foams including wetting agents as well as aerial bombing foams for wildfire applications. The range manufactured under licence from Dr Sthamer includes the Sthamex range of aqueous film-forming foam concentrates (AFFF) 1, 3 and 6 percent, the Moussol APS range alcohol resistant aqueous film-forming foam concentrates Volume 5 | No 3