Fire Protectors – Established products. Strong brand.
Safety is the guiding principle of our business
Fire Protectors, that's three proven fire protection businesses that have been established on the market for many years under one new roof.
In line with the motto "Together we are stronger," we decided in 2019 to combine the fire protection businesses, which until then had been located in different divisions, into a single unit. Today, we are at home with these product lines and the Fire Protectors brand under the umbrella of Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH.
Palusol®, the silicate-based building material that foams in the event of fire, which is produced at our Frankenthal site, has been tried and tested for decades in the manufacture of high-quality fire doors, fire barriers and safety cabinets.
The Wolman fire protection range manufactured at our headquarters in Sinzheim includes the intumescent building materials Interdens® and Exterdens® as well as the fire protection products for wooden components of the Wolmanit® product range.
For more than 4 decades our Illertissen site has been renowned for its KBS® fire protection systems and almost 70 years for competence in active and passive fire protection, altogether. Here we develop, test and produce proven as well as new fire protection and compartmentalization solutions for use in public and residential buildings, in industrial as well as infrastructure facilities all over the world.
Passive fire protection for over 60 years
Extensive experience since 1952
As early as the beginning of the 1950s, our chemists began protecting wooden components with foaming, intumescent coatings. Today, we are the only supplier in the world with formulation expertise for all reactive fire protection systems. These are ablative as well as intumescent products on an organic and inorganic basis, which we manufacture in our own production facilities.
1952 Production of the first intumescent coating for wood fire protection in Illertissen, Germany.
1959 Registration of Wolmanit® Antiflamm as a fire protection coating for wooden components.
1966 A joint venture between Saint Gobain and BASF gives rise to the Paris Ludwigshafener ISOLiergesellschaft, to which the product Palusol® also owes its name.
1977 The KabelBrandSchutz brand is launched by Grünau in Illertissen as the first of its kind in the fire protection market.
1980 BASF takes over Allgemeine Holzimprägnierung Dr. Wolman GmbH, which was founded in 1911.
1990 Start of development of the intumescent materials Interdens® and Exterdens®
1992 Approval of the intumescent materials Interdens® and Exterdens®
1996 Inauguration of the new fire protection center with development laboratory, application technology center, showroom, as well as a fire area and small fire test stand in Illertissen.
2005 Introduction of Palusol® SW and licensing for certified application in fire doors.
2011 KBS® becomes a BASF brand.
2019 Three BASF fire protection businesses and sites are combined under the umbrella of BASF Wolman GmbH.
2020 BASF sells its construction chemicals business, including BASF Wolman GmbH, to Lone Star Funds. The newly created unit is now called MBCC Group.
2021 Fire Protectors are born.
2023Sika successfully completes acquisition of MBCC. Fire Protectors is part of Sika.
Fire Protectors – a new strong brand in the Sika Group
Embedded in the structure of Sika, we as Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH benefit from the strength of a market leader in construction chemicals.
Thus, we "Fire Protectors" use the innovation network of Sika in research, development and digitalization to constantly improve ourselves and our processes. A decisive advantage from which our customers also benefit.
About Sika: Sika is a specialty chemicals company with a leading position in the development and production of systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protecting in the building sector and motor vehicle industry. Sika has subsidiaries in 101 countries around the world and manufactures in over 300 factories. Its more than 27,500 employees generated annual sales of CHF 10.49 billion in 2022.
Quality Management System
We are certified according to the new quality management system standard DIN EN ISO 9001: 2015. The ISO certification confirms the high priority of product quality, innovation and customer satisfaction. Our customers can rely on us that we implement all corporate processes according to international standards and that we are able to guarantee these also in the future through regular audits.
