The Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board (WSMB) kicked off the month of October by delivering 16 five-gallon buckets of SoyFoam TF 1122 to disperse among several fire departments across the state.   

“I’m glad we can get some actual product in the hands of firefighters so they can use it and put it through their own equipment to test and practice with,” said Jonathan Gibbs, WSMB president. “When it comes time, if they have to use it, they can be comfortable with it and they can deploy it without reservation.”

WSMB directors donate SoyFoam to the Mondovi Fire Department

Cross Plains Solutions developed SoyFoam TF1122 as a smothering agent capable of extinguishing Class A and Class B fires while eliminating intentionally added PFAS chemicals. Cross Plains Solutions pegs SoyFoam as 84-percent biobased, certified readily biodegradable and made with soy grown in the United States.

Currently derived from soy flour, the United Soybean Board (USB) began investing checkoff dollars into SoyFoam in October 2022. Now, SoyFoam is being tested using soymeal through a project funded by Wisconsin soybean checkoff dollars. Soy checkoff leaders witnessed testing of the product among agency leads and several firefighters during an Aug. 16 event at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire.   

WSMB plans to deliver its remaining SoyFoam buckets to Wisconsin fire departments this fall.