Drastic cost reduction
Proprietary NGP chemistry leaves minimal wash water — you save on the chemicals going in and the hazardous-waste disposal going out.
SOLAS Reg. II-2/10.11 — in force since 1 January 2026
PFAS was engineered to resist everything. Including replacement.
The same chemistry that made it the perfect firefighting agent makes it cling to tanks and pipework long after the foam is gone. Simply draining a tank is non-compliant — residual cross-contamination will fail laboratory analysis.
The foam is the easy part.
New fluorine-free foam is a purchase order. A compliant system is engineering. PFAS from decades of legacy foam persists on internal surfaces and components — and it fails the laboratory analysis your class society will read. FoamSafe treats the transition as system preparation, not a consumables change: cleaned, verified, refilled and certified in one accountable scope.
Inspection & Setup
- A scope survey of tanks, pipework, dead-legs and access points — every risk mapped before a single litre moves
- Equipment rigged with zero operational disruption: the job fits inside your maintenance window
Extraction
- Legacy concentrate is pumped out with high-capacity systems — fast, controlled, sealed straight into UN-approved IBCs
- From that moment the waste is NGP’s responsibility: labelled, logged and moved under an unbroken chain of custody
Wash & Fill
- The system is treated with our Fluor Clean products — chemistry developed specifically for PFAS removal
- The chemistry attacks the adsorption bond itself — PFAS releases from steel, coatings and residue, and leaves the system under control
- Refilled with Class-approved fluorine-free foam (F3), to the OEM’s specified mix ratio
Certification
- Rinse water from the tank’s lowest point, analysed by an accredited laboratory — PFOS, PFOA and total PFAS, typically against a < 20 ppb limit
- The old foam ends above 1,100 °C — Certificate of Destruction guaranteed, and entered in the vessel’s logbook
- Fire test and induction check by the class partner — a documentation package DNV, Bureau Veritas and Lloyd’s Register accept
Remove PFAS. Properly.
Water flushing lowers the number. It doesn’t pass the test.
PFAS doesn’t float free, waiting to be rinsed away. It bonds to the system itself — adsorbed into metals, coatings and decades of foam residue. A water flush dilutes the concentration; the bonded layer stays. And at limits measured in parts per billion, what stays is enough to fail.
Our Fluor Clean products are engineered to do what water can’t: break that bond, so the PFAS can be removed under control and handled as the waste it is.
The hidden cost trap
Don’t pay for the same clean twice.
The standard approach floods your system with chemicals — then bills you again to incinerate every litre of wastewater it just created. NGP engineered most of that away: chemistry that leaves far less wash water shrinks both invoices at once.
Traditional competitors: a large cost, roughly half upfront chemical purchases and half high-temperature incineration fees. NGP method: under a fifth of that in total — smaller chemical volumes and far less waste to incinerate.
Slashed downtime
Specialised high-pressure rigs and dedicated crews finish in a fraction of the standard time — the vessel returns to commercial operation fast.
Waste & liability
The waste becomes our responsibility — not yours.
PFAS waste can’t be dumped, diluted or sent down the wastewater line — it must be destroyed above 1,100 °C. Agree it on the order, and NGP takes 100 % control of the waste logistics from pump-out to destruction: labelled, logged, and moved under chain-of-custody documentation at every hand-off.
Guaranteed Certificate of Destruction — after every job.
- PFOS ≤ 10 mg/kg
- Lab-verified · NPR-CEN/TS 15968
- Certificate of Destruction
- DNV · BV · LR documentation
The regulatory horizon
The window is closing.
PFAS compliance isn’t one deadline — it’s a tightening series. And every step assumes your system, not just your foam, can pass a laboratory analysis.
In force
PFOS, PFOA and more
SOLAS PFOS ≤ 10 mg/kg. EU POP PFOS ≤ 0.025 mg/kg. PFOA, C9–C14 PFCAs and PFHxS limits — all already in force.
October 2026Next deadline
PFHxA + labelling
PFHxA limited to ≤ 0.025 mg/kg in firefighting foams. Mandatory labelling of anything holding ≥ 1 mg/kg total PFAS.
August 2028
Legacy interim ends
The interim allowance for PFOA in installed legacy systems runs out.
October 2030
The full ban
General prohibition of PFAS in firefighting foams.
Chemical cleaning crucial
Critical PFAS limit values
Chemical cleaning crucialPFOS
In force- PFAS limit
- < 10 mg/kg
- Application / conditions
- Marine firefighting foams
PFOS
In force- PFAS limit
- < 0.025 mg/kg
- Application / conditions
- Substances and mixtures (General UTC limit)
PFOA
In force- PFAS limit
- < 0.025 mg/kg (PFOA & salts) · < 1 mg/kg (PFOA-related)
- Application / conditions
- General UTC for substances and mixtures
- Legal reference
- POP Reg. (EU) 2019/1021, Annex I (opens eur-lex.europa.eu)
PFOA (Interim)
Aug 2028- PFAS limit
- < 1 mg/kg (PFOA & salts) · < 10 mg/kg (PFOA-related)
- Application / conditions
- Installed legacy systems only
C9–C14 PFCAs
In force- PFAS limit
- < 0.025 mg/kg
- Application / conditions
- Firefighting foams (Training use prohibited)
PFHxS
In force- PFAS limit
- < 0.025 mg/kg (General UTC) · < 0.10 mg/kg (Concentrates)
- Application / conditions
- Firefighting foams and concentrated mixtures
PFHxA
Oct 2026- PFAS limit
- < 0.025 mg/kg
- Application / conditions
- Firefighting foams
Labelling
Oct 2026- PFAS limit
- > 1 mg/kg total PFAS
- Application / conditions
- Mandatory labelling for PFAS-containing foams
Total PFAS
Oct 2030- PFAS limit
- > 1 mg/kg total PFAS
- Application / conditions
- General prohibition of PFAS in firefighting foams
From NGP’s compliance material. References open the governing act at EUR-Lex and the IMO.
Used in this transition
The chemistry that does the work.
Our Fluor Clean products — the chemistry NGP FoamSafe is built on.
Questions about FoamSafe Transition?
Is replacing the foam enough to be compliant?
No. Simply draining a tank is non-compliant — PFAS from legacy foam persists on internal surfaces and components, and residual cross-contamination will fail laboratory analysis.
Why isn’t water flushing sufficient?
PFAS adsorbs to steel, coatings and residue. Water flushing lowers the number but doesn’t break the adsorption bond — Fluor Clean chemistry does, so the PFAS can be removed under control.
What happens to the old foam and wash water?
Both are collected in UN-approved IBCs and moved under an unbroken chain of custody, then destroyed above 1,100 °C — with a guaranteed Certificate of Destruction after every job.
How is the result verified?
Third-party laboratory analysis (NPR-CEN/TS 15968) with lowest-point sampling, plus fire test and induction check by the class partner — a documentation package DNV, Bureau Veritas and Lloyd’s Register accept.
How disruptive is the transition?
Equipment is rigged with zero operational disruption — the job is scoped to fit inside your maintenance window.
Which deadlines apply?
PFOS limits are already in force under SOLAS; PFHxA limits and mandatory PFAS labelling land in October 2026; the interim allowance for legacy PFOA ends August 2028; the general prohibition of PFAS in firefighting foams follows in October 2030.
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