FIREX EC 7034
Anti-rodent & fire coating for industrial cables
Rats bite cables
Uncoated cable
7034-coated cable
Food freely available
cable
opens
exposed
overheat
shutdown
The world’s first intumescent cable coating that is translucent, flexible and anti-rodent.
Anti-rodent · rated safe
RDSO/SPN/204 Annexure G · NABL
Fire · 120 minutes
IEC 60332-3-22 · Category A · CBRI
Where the food is
| Industry | Why the rodents are there | Where to coat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Food processing, dairy & beverage | The product is food. Spillage, wash-down warmth and motor rooms run around the clock. | Trays over production and packing lines · MCC and panel room interiors · utility and chiller corridors |
| 02 | Grain, sugar, rice & feed mills | Stored grain is the densest rodent habitat in Indian industry. | Conveyor gallery runs · silo and elevator wiring · mill floor panels and DBs |
| 03 | Cold storage & warehousing | Warm plant rooms sit beside chilled halls. Almost nobody is there at night. | Compressor and plant room runs · racking-level conduit · dock and dispatch panels |
| 04 | Pharmaceutical & FMCG | Service voids, false ceilings and shafts run above clean rooms. | Shaft runs above clean areas · service void cabling · AHU and utility panel interiors |
Where people cannot walk out
| Industry | Why the rodents are there | Where to coat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05 | Hospitals & healthcare | Kitchens, waste rooms, laundry and round-the-clock warmth. Rodents travel the same shafts and false ceilings as the cabling. | Riser shafts · false-ceiling runs over wards and corridors · ward, OT and diagnostic DBs |
| 06 | Hotels, malls & cinemas | Kitchens and garbage rooms feed the whole building. Rodents then take the service shafts. | Kitchen and back-of-house runs · vertical service shafts · basement car-park trays |
| 07 | High-rise commercial | Basements, refuge floors and riser shafts run the height of the building. | Riser shafts · basement cable trays · floor DB and meter-room interiors |
| 08 | Railways, metro & airports | Signalling troughs, tunnels, station voids, platform catering and cargo sheds. | Signalling and telecom trough runs · tunnel and station-void cabling · cargo-shed trays |
Where the loss is total
| Industry | Why the rodents are there | Where to coat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09 | Data centres & telecom exchanges | Under-floor voids and ceiling plenums are sheltered, undisturbed routes. | Under-floor and plenum runs · tray routes feeding racks · MDB and UPS-room cabling |
| 10 | Substations & cable basements | Trenches, ducts and burrows run under the switchyard. Basements are dark, warm and rarely entered. | Basement and trench runs · duct and gland entries · control and relay-panel interiors |
| 11 | Solar plants & battery storage | Rural sites. Burrows under module rows; string and DC cable at grade. | String and DC cable at grade · combiner-box interiors · inverter and battery-room runs |
| 12 | Refineries, petrochemical & fertiliser | Mains are armoured. Control and instrumentation cable, panel interiors and tray runs are not. | Control and instrumentation trays · panel and junction-box interiors · sleeper crossings |
| 13 | Steel, cement, mines & heavy industry | Canteens, stores and substation rooms carry the rodent load into the plant. Pit-head and workshop equipment is cabled throughout. | MCC and substation-room runs · exposed control cabling · DB, starter and machine-panel interiors |
Pest control protects the room.
It cannot protect the cable.
Every plant on this list already pays a pest-control contractor. He baits, traps and seals the room — and has never touched the one surface that actually starts the fire. FIREX EC 7034 protects at the cable itself — and the same coating denies the cable sheathing as fuel if a fault still starts.
Two more industrial places the same coat earns its keep.
When a rat bites a cable inside a closed panel
The exposed conductor can arc against nearby components and start a fire inside the box.
Panels, junction boxes, distribution boards, control cabinets, machinery and mining-equipment enclosures. The rodent gets in by the same route the cable does — the gland, the knockout or the cutout at the base.
Coat the wiring and exposed surfaces inside. The rodent is turned away at the film; if a fault still starts — from a rat or a loose termination — the coating denies the wiring as fuel, so flame does not travel out of the box along the cable and down the tray.
Fire-coated may still be rodent-unprotected
Many plants that protected cable runs against fire years ago already carry a water-based intumescent coating. That coating may carry no anti-rodent protection, no RDSO/SPN/204 Annexure G test and no rodent rating. A run can be fire-protected and rodent-unprotected.
On a sound, adhered and compatible existing coat, 7034 can be applied as the anti-rodent overcoat on indoor cable trays, cellars, basements, riser shafts, galleries and plant rooms. Nothing is stripped, re-pulled or taken out of service. The plant keeps the fire coat already paid for and gains the defence it never had.