Where rodents start fires
Fourteen industries, grouped not by who has rodents — everyone has rodents — but by where a rodent bite becomes a fire, a shutdown or a death. A rat gnaws to wear its teeth down, not to eat. It strips the insulation and leaves. The fire starts after it has gone.
The world’s first intumescent cable coating that is translucent, flexible and anti-rodent.
IEC 60332-3 — 120 minutes
Category A vertical tray test at CBRI. Flame held for two hours against a coated cable bunch.
RDSO/SPN/204 Annexure G — rated safe
NABL laboratory. Thirty-day choice test: zero bites on the coated cable, nineteen on the uncoated control. Every rodent alive and healthy throughout.
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, motor rooms running around the clock. | Trays over the 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 beside chilled halls. Almost nobody there at night. | Compressor and plant room runs · racking-level conduit · dock and dispatch panels |
| 04 | Pharmaceutical & FMCG | Service voids, false ceilings and shafts 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 services shafts. | Kitchen and back-of-house runs · vertical services shafts · basement car park trays |
| 07 | High-rise commercial & residential | 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, 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 the racks · MDB and UPS room cabling |
| 10 | Substations & cable basements | Trenches, ducts and burrows 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 |
And at home
| Industry | Why the rodents are there | Where to coat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Homes & apartments | You have seen a rat in your house. You have never seen the wire it has already opened. | Meter room and distribution board · false ceiling runs · AC, cooler and UPS wiring · kitchen and utility cabling |
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. EC 7034 is the only defence at the cable itself — and it is the same coat that stops the fire the bite would have started.
Two more places the same coat earns its keep.
Where a bite has nowhere to vent
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, the cutout at the base. Inside a closed box the bite it leaves behind arcs against everything packed around it.
Coat the wiring and the exposed surfaces inside. The rodent is turned away at the film, and if a fault still starts — from a rat, or from 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.
Already fire-coated is not rodent-protected
Most plants that took cable fire protection seriously years ago already carry a water-based intumescent coating on their indoor runs. That coating carries no anti-rodent protection at all. It is not tested under RDSO/SPN/204 Annexure G, it holds no rodent rating, and it claims none. The run is fire-protected and rodent-unprotected — and has been for years.
EC 7034 goes on over that coating — indoor cable trays, cellars, basements, riser shafts, galleries and plant rooms — 0.5 mm, in two coats. Nothing is stripped, nothing is re-pulled, nothing goes out of service. The plant keeps the fire coat it has already paid for, and gains the one defence that coat never had.
Brush or spray
Applied to cable already in place. No rewiring, no re-pulling, nothing replaced.
Stays readable
The film is translucent, so markings, colours and phase identification remain visible.
Stays flexible
The cable still bends and can still be worked. Protection is at the certified film build.