Fireproof Composite Construction protects against the flaming inferno!

Midsummer celebration, June 23, 2017. In Denmark, it is a tradition to burn a witch on the bonfire to send her away to Bloksbjerg (the Brocken mountain in the Harz region of Germany, where she is believed to have come from according to old superstitious folklore).

Again, this year the ICOM team reused the Phenolic Witch from previous years – it´s her 4th bonfire. The Phenolic Witch withstood temperature of about 900 °C for 30 minutes.
Fantastic composite construction! The Phenolic Witch has now been sitting in flaming inferno for 120 minutes in total without any burn marks or evaporate.

The purpose of Phenolic Witch has been to show the supreme benefits of Phenolic as fireproof matrix in the composite construction. As an example, the phenolic matrix has been used in shipbuilding, offshore, mass transportation (trains, buses, trams), wind industry, construction, fire doors etc.

ICOM´s Phenolic Witch was designed by Development Group in 2014 and the materials for the Phenolic Witch was sponsored by ICOM Composites A/S. The construction of the Phenolic Witch is simple and remarkably FIREPROOF: core of plywood in infusion mats infused with CELLOBOND Phenol J2027X.

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