The Challenge Recognizing the need for increasingly energy efficient building envelopes and aware of the short-comings of products currently on the market, the inventors and patentees of air krete have developed a product which eliminates or mitigates those short-comings while maintaining a high degree of thermal efficiency.

In air krete, its inventors offer the construction industry a product which is: fireproof, non-toxic and does not shrink (unlike “plastic” chemical based foams or boards)

Incapable of producing airborne lung irritants or contaminants (unlike man-made fiber based products, i.e., fiberglass)

Fireproof with low absorption of moisture (unlike fiber based products)

Continuous and non-settling
(unlike loose fill or foam plastic inserts)
• A highly effective sound absorbing acoustic insulator
• An excellent material for fire stopping and firesafing
• Ideal for high and very high temperature installations
• An insulating encapsulator of hazardous materials

Air krete is an ultralight insulating foam consisting of a patented combination of an inorganic cementatious stabilizer, a microscopic cell generator, a catalyst and compressed air designed to create an effective, safe, thermal, acoustic and fireproof insulation for use in many architectural and engineering applications.

(NEW & RETROFIT) MASONRY: foamed in place at block cores and cavities between wythes.

STUDS, METAL AND WOOD: foamed in placed through or behind appropriate screening to completely fill air spaces.

CURTAIN WALLS: foamed in place to firestop spandrels and insulate between exterior skin and interior finish.

DECK INSULATION: foamed in place to avoid condensation, insulate, firestop and greatly reduce sound transmission. Partitions: foamed in place to increase fire resistance rating and reduce sound transmission.

HIGH TEMPERATURE: inorganic, fireproof nature of material produces a low cost, high performance application.

ENCAPSULATION: where space and configuration permit, encapsulation of existing asbestos-containing insulation with air krete inexpensively increases insulative efficiency rather than expensively replacing it.

Fire Characteristics

ASTM E84.81A Test extended to 30 minutes with no further flame progression. Flame spread: 0 Smoke developed: 0 Fuel contributed: 0

Dimensional Stability ASTM C951 Shrinkage: 0

Ultrasafe Material

Independent tests and certifications are available indicating that air krete is free of carcinogenic mineral fibers, including asbestos and fiberglass; formaldehyde; chlorinated fluorocarbons. It is 98% or more inorganic; contributes no harmful gases under flaming and smoldering test conditions and is non-hazardous as waster material.

Sound Absorption/Transmission Preliminary tests indicate significant improvement in the sound performance of structures insulated with air krete.