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Angus Fire Ltd.
High Bentham, near Lancaster, Lancashire, UK-based fire suppression foam company (Station Road, High Bentham LA2 7NA). Products: JetFoam F3 6%/3%/1% (ICAO Types B and C), Trainol, Forexpan, Expandol LT, Respondol ATF series. Certifications: ICAO Types B and C; GreenScreen for select products; EN13565-2; NFPA 11. DoD QPL: NOT confirmed as of April 2025. Angus Fire is one of the UK's oldest firefighting foam manufacturers; has ICAO-certified F3 products for airport applications but has not yet achieved US DoD QPL listing. Serves European fire services, aviation, and industrial markets.
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F3 Fluorine-Free Foam (JetFoam)
45%Specialty Foam Concentrates
30%Legacy AFFF (Transitional)
15%Fire Suppression Equipment
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Chokepoint2023
Angus Fire holds ICAO-certified F3 foam (JetFoam F3, Types B and C) for aviation applications, serving European airports transitioning away from AFFF. European civil aviation authorities (EASA and national CAAs) and US FAA are imposing AFFF phase-out requirements on overlapping timelines. Because Angus Fire has ICAO certification but not US DoD QPL listing, its JetFoam F3 can supply European airports but not US military installations. This creates a bifurcated F3 foam market: DoD-qualified suppliers (Perimeter Solutions, Bio-Ex, National Foam, Dafo Fomtec) serve US military installations, while ICAO-certified but non-QPL suppliers (Angus Fire and others) serve European airports. A European airport buying Angus Fire foam and a US military installation buying Perimeter Solutions are buying F3 foam products that could, with additional qualification work, be interchangeable -- but the regulatory qualification walls keep the markets separate, maintaining higher prices and smaller supplier pools in each.
Angus Fire Ltd. ↗Origin2023
Angus Fire Ltd. is headquartered at Station Road, High Bentham -- a village of approximately 2,600 people in the Yorkshire Dales of Lancashire, England, wedged between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Moors. High Bentham is not an industrial center; it is a rural market town. Angus Fire operates one of the world's most significant firefighting foam manufacturing facilities from a location that would surprise any supply chain analyst expecting chemical manufacturing in an urban or industrial corridor. The company traces roots to Angus Wilson & Co., established in the 19th century in the Lancashire textile and chemical corridor. The High Bentham location is a legacy of that regional industrial history -- the facility has operated there for decades, developing ICAO-certified aviation foam and serving European fire services. As of April 2025, Angus Fire holds ICAO Types B and C certification for its JetFoam F3 products but has not achieved US DoD QPL listing under MIL-PRF-32725, positioning it as a European-market F3 supplier rather than a US military foam source.
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