About

Based at Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom since 1975, Barrier Ltd were established and became prevalent in the offshore fabrication sector providing abrasive blasting, corrosion protection and industrial painting services.

As passive fire protection technology developed and oil & gas facility owners and operators raised their PFP standards, a natural business progression was identified during the 1980’s. Barrier Fire Protection was formed as a division of the company, to provide with synergy the specialist coatings and passive fire protection capability to the high standards demanded by the industrial majors of the day.

Barrier Fire Protection has been safeguarding customers’ assets for over 35 years , utilising market leading passive fire protection products, and have been a global applicator of epoxy intumescent & subliming materials since the inception of the technology, originally developed for the NASA space programme and subsequently applied to offshore platforms and petrochemical facilities.

Barrier Fire Protection installs and applies products and systems which have been developed to protect assets in the event of a catastrophic event such as a blast and subsequent hydrocarbon pool fire or hydrocarbon jet-fire, or cellulosic fire scenario Our application teams apply or install passive fire protection products which prevent structures reaching their critical core temperature (CTC) for a pre-determined period. These products are designed to remain effective over time and in some of the planet’s most hostile environments.

Customers choose Barrier Fire Protection because it is a specialist. Other companies in our sector have diversified or been absorbed by acquisition and skills have been lost , dissolved and diluted. Barrier Fire Protection by contrast, remains privately owned and focused entirely on passive fire protection.

Barrier Fire Protection is an innovator. We have designed, manufactured and installed bespoke fire protection pre-cast components for prestige construction projects . We have designed and built bespoke application equipment, allowing a fully mobile operation for our specialist application machines and associated equipment, allowing us to develop and perfect application techniques to the benfit of our clients due to increased productivity and reduced material consumption, saving costs and overall applied material weight.

As one of the pioneers of passive fire protection, the company has decades of experience in providing solutions for its customers. Members of its team – project managers, technicians and application crews – are amongst the most experienced professionals in the industry.

Barrier Fire Protection can truly claim that products installed by the company have performed and exceeded the actual life span of the asset. Offshore decommissioning companies – who are dismantling redundant offshore platforms and rigs – are approaching the company to ask how to remove the fireproofing coating originally installed by ourselves, which has remained intact despite years of exposure in the hostile offshore and North Sea environments.

Barrier Fire Protection meet the rigorous standards of compliance required in all of fields of operation. These include ISO9001 2015, OHSA18001, ISO14001, SCC-P, VCA-P amongst our principal accreditations.