CitroTech (NYSE AM: CITR), a specialty chemical company developing environmentally responsible fire retardant solutions, and Matrix Wildfire (“Matrix”) today announced a strategic partnership that combines Matrix’s high-capacity, Massive Area Fire Denial (MAFD) industrial hardware application with CitroTech’s leading retardant chemistry to establish wide-area defense barriers.
Pairing Matrix Wildfire’s MAFD predictive spatial intelligence with the only fire retardant that is safe to repeatedly apply, the partnership delivers a scalable solution designed to safeguard entire Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) communities, utility corridors, and railway rights-of-way on a zip code level.
The combined solution transforms legacy, reactive fire suppression into a proactive utility model, delivering results more effective than many air tanker retardant drops. Deployed months before the first ignition, the platform establishes physical firebreak buffers that prevent rapid flame spread along critical railway transit routes, power grids, and municipal borders. Its continuous perimeter retardant barriers are up to 600 feet wide, enhancing wildfire protection from localized property management to macro public utility infrastructure.
Utilities and rail operators face growing challenges to reduce wildfire risk across thousands of miles of infrastructure, from critical transmission lines to key rail corridors. The teams will use Spatial Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Precision Deployment to combine predictive risk modeling and real-time internet of things (IoT) verification telemetry to property-level risk attestation for municipal leaders and insurance underwriters.
“For too long, wildfire protection has been defined by how quickly we respond after a fire starts,” said Wes Bolsen, CEO of CitroTech. “This partnership represents a much needed shift for critical infrastructure sectors toward proactive resilience, bringing air tanker-level fire protection to precision, ground-based application with an unmatched level of consistency.”
Matrix’s systems are designed to operate in conditions that halt aerial fire retardant application entirely, including high winds and nighttime hours, arming communities with a solution that can run continuously rather than only when ideal conditions and weather permits.
CitroTech’s inhibitor is the only long-term fire retardant recognized under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Safer Choice program. Its solutions are formulated to substantially reduce fire risk without introducing harmful chemicals or heavy metals that can harm local ecosystems, applications crews, and surrounding communities.
Unlike the phosphate-based chemistries commonly used in scaled applications, CitroTech’s formulation is non-toxic and biodegradable, allowing Matrix to pursue large-area deployment without the historical environmental tradeoffs.
“Solving the wildfire crisis at true scale requires pairing elite engineering hardware with world-class, environmentally responsible chemistry,” said Patric Douglas, CEO of Matrix Wildfire. “Working with CitroTech has been extraordinary. Their breakthrough chemical solutions are the perfect catalyst for our Massive Area Fire Denial systems. Together, we are providing asset owners, utilities, railways, and entire communities with an unprecedented layer of pre-mitigation protection long before a spark ever lands.”
As wildfire risk intensifies across the Western United States, driven by expanding wildland-urban interface development, prolonged drought, and increasingly severe fire seasons, insurers and utilities are placing growing emphasis on prevention systems that can be verified, scaled, and deployed ahead of ignition. According to the California Public Utilities Commission, fires linked to power line failures account for roughly half of the state’s most destructive wildfires on record.
The joint platform will be deployed across high-risk corridors in North America, focusing on energy grid transmission lines, rail transport routes, and municipal boundary zones facing severe insurance non-renewal risks. Real-time satellite and telemetry data generated by the deployments offer insurance carriers verified risk reduction attestation to support underwriting stability in vulnerable geographic areas.
About CitroTech Inc.
CitroTech Inc. (NYSE AM: CITR) is manufacturing and deploying the CitroTech family of innovative, environmentally safe fire prevention solutions for homes, wood products, and wildfire prevention and asset protection. CitroTech is the only long-term fire inhibitor recognized by the EPA Safer Choice program and tested to UL Greenguard Gold standards, providing effective and scientifically validated wildfire mitigation while safeguarding human and environmental health. The company’s growing patent portfolio, recurring-revenue model, and scalable approach support its long-term growth and market expansion. For more information, visit www.citrotech.com.
About Matrix Wildfire
Matrix Wildfire is a Colorado-based FireTech infrastructure leader engineering proactive Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) defense solutions. By combining predictive spatial intelligence, massive area sprayer hardware, and automated risk telemetry, Matrix Wildfire transitions fire mitigation into a scalable public utility model. To learn more, visit www.matrixwildfire.com.
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