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B2i Digital Welcomes CitroTech Inc. as a Featured Company
- CitroTech named B2i Digital Featured Company
- EPA Safer Choice approved citric acid fire inhibitor
- 50/50 joint venture with Hexion to scale in lumber
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EQS-News: B2i Digital, Inc. / Key word(s): Financial Specialty Chemical Company Delivering Environmentally Safe Fire Inhibitor Solutions for Wildfire Prevention, Lumber, and Wood Products |
A 50/50 Joint Venture With Hexion Opens the Path to Commercial Scale in Wood Products
NEW YORK, NY - June 16, 2026 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) - B2i Digital, Inc. today announced that CitroTech Inc. (NYSE American: CITR) has been named a B2i Digital Featured Company. CitroTech makes a fire inhibitor used to defend homes and wildland from wildfire and to build fire resistance into wood and lumber. What sets it apart is the chemistry: made from food-grade ingredients like citric acid, it is the only long-term fire inhibitor the EPA recognizes as safe for the environment under its Safer Choice program. The formulation is protected by 31 issued patents, with 56 more pending.
Their target market is already responding. In April 2026, Hexion, a global producer of adhesives and performance materials, formed HexiTech LLC, a 50/50 joint venture with CitroTech to bring its fire-retardant technology to the lumber and engineered wood industry. Soon after, All Risk Shield, a California firefighter and veteran-owned wildfire defense company, tested the leading products on the market and made CitroTech its go-to, the only one with no detectable heavy metals above the lab’s reporting limits. In San Diego, the fire marshal reported that the Alvarado Estates community saw roughly 50% fewer fires over about two years of CitroTech treatment.
“What piqued my interest in CitroTech is simple. They built a fire inhibitor that works and that the EPA recognizes as safe for the environment, and no one else can say that. When a team of veteran firefighters tests the whole field and still picks your product, that tells you something real. That is exactly the kind of story we want to carry across our platform and put in front of investors, and it is why CitroTech is now a Featured Company,” said David Shapiro, Chief Executive Officer of B2i Digital.

