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Which Cart Do YOU Think
Is Really Fire Retardant?

These are photos of an actual fire test using a Sanitrux fire retardant cart and a Factory Mutual Approved polyethylene cart.

  • The Factory Mutual poly cart caught fire within 1 minute
    with flames shooting to heights of 6 feet.
  • Burning, melted polyethylene flowed on the floor within 3 minutes.
  • The fire was extinguished at 4 minutes for safety concerns.
  • The Sanitrux cart did not burn or melt, and it’s paper contents
    remained untouched by fire.

It Can Save Your Business To Have All The Facts!

Click HERE for your FREE report, "The Undisclosed Threat of Polyethylene."

"Both the NFPA and the
International Fire Code have
provisions which require
materials including those
susceptible to spontaneous
ignition to be in listed
containers, which are designed
to contain or suppress a fire,
and not contribute additional
fuels.

Polyethylene laundry carts do
NOT meet these requirements. One third of all laundry
managers have suffered a fire.
It makes little sense that non-sprinklered laundries continue
to operate without listed
containers!"

- Jim Everitt
    Fire Safety Professional and
    contributing NFPA code writer.
    Click to read his informative
    White Paper.
"Spontaneous Ignition Fires
  in Laundries"



NFPA reports the following losses to non-residential properties by fire:

2007 Total Reported Fire Loss: $3.1 billion

Intentional: $872 million
Cooking Equipment: $126 million
Electrical: $399 million
Heating: $212 million
Smoking Materials: $153 million
Dryers: $17 million
Spontaneous Ignition: $67 million
Rubbish: $1 million


            Download your copy of
               a White Paper on
         Cone Calorimeter Testing.


  • In the U.S., a fire department responds to a call every 20 seconds.
  • Average response time is
    5 minutes    , 80% of the time.
  • Polyethylene carts become fully involved in 3.5 minutes.

Most information you've heard or read about fire retardant containers is not accurate. This is why McClure Industries is putting the record straight.
It concerns us when businesses purchase carts
that claim to be fire retardant, but actually are not.

Polyethylene carts are not fire retardant. Period.

In order to be listed and certified fire retardant, a cart manufacturer MUST submit the material to an independent laboratory that tests it according to ASTM-E 1354, cone calorimeter test, for combustion rate (heat release) and smoke release. The cone calorimeter test is the most reliable test for fire retardant standards, unlike the Factory Mutual Test, FM 6921, which provides no assurance of fire code compliance for the tested container.

The structural fiberglass in Sanitrux carts has been tested to these rigid standards by Warnock Hersey/Intertek. Sanitrux are "listed" carts and have been given Class II Fire Retardant classification.

What does that mean to you? It means that you KNOW that when you buy a Sanitrux, it IS Class II Fire Retardant. And you KNOW without question that it meets the mandates of all public safety and fire codes. You know that you have absolutely taken the appropriate steps to safeguard your business and your employees.

We've loaded the site with reports for you by fire professionals. We want you to be the most informed buyer possible so you purchase exactly what is needed for your business, you know exactly what you are purchasing and you can feel sure you've made the best purchase.

Click Here to view a pdf of our product catalog.
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