Foams: Quality and Efficiency
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he company VS FOCUM is es-
oldFoam, the registered trademark under community patent, groups a whole catalogue of synthetic foams in high, mid and low expansion, Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF), anti-alcohol (AR), additives for extinguishers, wetting agents, Class A foams and forest fires retardants.
tablished in 2002 with the aim of
researching,
manufactur-
ing and marketing firefighting foams. Part of the company’s staff comes from similar activities, some of them gaining more than 20 years of experience in research and manufacturing in the foam market.
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FOCUM to
Quality
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Certification
The quality of BoldFoam products, the conscientious control, both in raw materials and final products, and the study of diverse problems in fire protection in several particular cases of high difficulty, has augmented the prestige of VS FOCUM in front of national and international customers in different areas as: Chemical industry, firefighting brigades, Air Forces, Navies, Energy (thermal and nuclear power stations, as well as biodiesel stations), automobile industry, manufacturing of firefighting trucks, brigades, helicopters and airplanes extinguishing forest fires, extinguishers factories, fuel storage central stations, etc.
ISO 9001, issued by Bureau Veritas.
This has leaded VS FOCUM to be a successful tenderer of several public tenders for AENA, Community of Madrid, Generalitat of Cataluña, Madrid Town Council, Valencia Consortium, Famet (Army Helicopters) or EGMASA (Andalucía Regional Government).
Beyond manufacturing firefighting foams, VS FOCUM analyses concentrates against fires from several and diverse firefighting installations with the aim of verifying its concordance with several standards as OACI, European norm EN-1568, UL-162, military norm MIL F23485F, IMO, etc.
Investing on Research
T
he researching work has always been essential and fundamental for VS FOCUM, and that has allowed the company to confront complex extinguishing problems as the following: • BoldFoam OP. Developed specifically by request of a petrochemical company, consisting on the development of a special type of foam suitable for extinguishing propylene oxide fires. This fuel destroys conventional firefighting foams
and that evolves into a big risk. In the development of this product, we gathered an exceptional resistance against the destroying action of the propylene oxide on the foam. • SILVARA. Synthetic fluorine-free foam concentrates for fighting Class A & B fires. It provides the foam with high stability, slow drainage and great resistance against hydrocarbon contamination.
• BoldFoam F40. This product was developed for extinguishing class F fires (oil) on kitchens.It can be used in stationary systems or extinguishers. Recent real fire tests over electric transformers showed up the great efficiency of F40 against conventional solutions like water pulverization or conventional foams. • TwinGelFoam. Two-component system: TwinGel (acrylic thickener) and TwinFoam (compatible foaming agent), producing a foam-like gel that, applied over surfaces exposed to fires, provides them with exceptional resistance against the burnt. Suitable and applicable overall in houses protection and vehicles in forest fires. • B-Water. Additive in 0,3% dosage for water in high-pressure extinguishment systems. It has moisturizing agents and defoamers for being used where foam is not suitable to be used. • WhitEx. Forest fire retardant in short-term time. Approved by INIA (Agrarian Investigations National Institute), it is used currently by airplanes and helicopters as well as terrestrial brigades in forest fires fighting. Some fire brigades use it as Class A and Class B foam. • PhosWet. Composed moisturizing etrate the
Forest fire retardant in long-term of ammonium polyphosphates agents that allow the liquid to forest substrate doing a firewall
time. with penwork.
BoldFoam concentrates have been specifically designed for generating the best foam quality in combination with electronic dosage equipment. BoldFoam concentrates do not produce any unexpected foam quality damage (poor fluidity, overquantity foam, sluggish forms). BoldFoam concentrates have been specifically developed and tested to be compatible on current materials on-use (anti-corrosion test). BoldFoam concentrates reduce the necessary chemical agents for creating foam (less surfactants, glycol and other preservatives, anti-corrosive, stabilizers, etc.) and at the same time they require less foam concentrate to extinguish a fire (environmental responsibility).
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• Foam for CAFS systems (Compressed Air Foam Systems): It gathers three products highly concentrated: BoldFoam A+ (for Class A fires, 0,3% dosage); BoldFoam 05 (AFFF, Aqueous Film-Forming Foams, hydrocarbon fires, 0,5% dosage) and BoldFoam 6000 (AFFF/ AR, like the previous one, adding the anti-alcohol feature, 0,6% dosage).
Contrasted facts
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• BoldFoam APC. This “All Purpose Concentrate” is a low, mid and high expansion and at the same time, anti-alcohol. It does not contain fluorinated surfactants and can be used by fire brigades as the only foam without having to resort to different foam types.
Product summary EN - 1156 5688 56 Prod Pr oduc od uctt uc
Type Ty pe
Min. Temp. N e w t / Mi of U Use se (ºC) Pseud.
1
2
3
4
Othe Ot her no he norm rmat rm atives at
BoldFo Bo Foam Fo am 0055
AFFF AF FF
-155 -1
N
-
-
0,5 0,
-
OACI OA CI-B
Bold Bo ldFo Foam am B BFF-10 1000 10
AFFF AF FF
-155 -1
N
-
-
1
-
OACI OA CI-C -C
BoldFo Bo Foam Fo am B B1
AFFF AF FF
-5
N
-
-
1
-
-
Bold Bo ldFoam am B BFF-30 3000 30
AFFF
-15 -1
N
3
-
3
-
-
BoldFo Bo Foam am B B3F 3F
AFFF
-10
N
-
-
3
-
LAST LA STFI ST FIRE
0
N
-
-
3
-
OACI OA CI-B
AFFF AF FF
-5
N
-
-
6
-
OACI OA CI-B CI -B
BoldFoam 611
AFFF AF FF-A FF -AR -A R
-5
N
-
-
1
1
-
BoldFoam 613 13
AFFF AF FF-A FF -AR -A R
-5
N
-
-
1
3
-
BoldFoam BF-13 1300 13
AFFF AF FF-A FF -AR -A R
-200 -2
P
-
-
1
3
-
BoldFoam B33 33F 33 F
AFFF-AR
-10
P
-
-
3
3
LAST LA STFI ST FIRE FI RE
Bold Bo ldFo Foam B B33 33
AFFF AF FF-A FF -AR -A R
-5
P
-
-
3
3
UL-1 UL -162 -1 62;I 62 ;IMO MO
BoldFoam BF-36 3600
AFFF AF FF-A FF -AR -A R
-155 -1
P
-
-
3
6
LAST LA STFIRE,UL-162 ST
BoldFoam B66
AFFF-AR
0
P
6
6
-
BoldFoam F-40
AFFF-AR, Class F
-40
N
100
100
100
100
-
BoldFoam R3
Alcohol Resistant Al
0
P
-
-
3
3
IMO
BoldFoam A+
Class A
-15
N
0.5
0.3
INIA IN IA
Whit Wh itEx Ex
Fore rest st F Fir iree Re Ret. t. ((0, 0,11 1%)) 1%
-5
N
1
0.55 0.
INIA
Whit Wh itEx Ex L LF F
Forest Firee Re Fo Ret. t. ((10 100% 0%))
0
P
-
-
-
-
-
TwinGelFoam
Gel
0
N (High visc.)
-
-
-
-
-
BoldFoam HF-20
Multiexpansion
-5
N
2
2
-
-
-
BoldFoam M3
Multiexpan ansi an sion si on
-10 -1
N
3
-
3
-
-
BoldFo Bo Foam am M M66
Mult Mu ltie iexp xpan ansi an sion si on
0
N
6
-
6
-
-
TF-C TF -C
Trai Tr aini ning ng
-15
N
-
-
-
-
-
Silvaraa 1
Class B + Cl Classs A
-5
N
-
-
1
-
-
Silv Si lvar araa 3x 3x6 6
Clas Cl asss B + Cl Clas asss A + AR as
-5
P
6
-
3
6
-
VS FOCUM Pol. Ind. Porceyo, I-13. C/ Galileo Galilei, 177 Tel:+34 985 307 145 • Fax: +34 985 168 639
•
33392 Gijón (Asturias) www.vsfocum.com • info@vsfocum.com
Non-fluorinated
AFFF AF
Fluo Fl uori rina nate na ted te
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