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CitroTech Announces Partnership with Leading National Lumber Company to Produce Class A Fire-Rated Products
OCEANSIDE, Calif., December 16, 2025--General Enterprise Ventures, Inc. ("CitroTech") (NYSE American: CITR) — developer of a pioneering family of fire protection and prevention products for manufactured wood and lumber — today announced a commercial partnership with a leading national distributor to produce Class A fire-rated lumber using CitroTech’s factory-applied, non-pressure impregnated chemistry.
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