Tag: fire protection
Extinguishing fires flexibly: A large volume flow of extinguishing water and a constant proportioning...
THE results of the extinguishing system statistics of the Bundesverbandes Technischer Brandschutz e.V. (bvfa) for the year 2023 prove once again: Stationary extinguishing systems...
New FM certificate for higher viscosity values of foam proportioners – FireDos
THE FireDos foam proportioners with high-viscosity foam concentrates were again subjected to FM tests – with convincing results: The optimised proportioning systems have shown...
DoseTech Fire shares its history and journey in special risk fire protection
Mike Feldon, MD of DoseTech – a leader in advanced special risk fire protection equipment – is the first to admit that nothing comes...
Avoid plant failures by extinguishing quickly with foam
Fire protection is a major challenge in chemical and petrochemical production, says DoseTech, a leader in fire protection and fire dosing technology.
Many highly flammable...
Fire protection is environmental protection
ONE of the images we all have in mind are the increasing number of wildfires all over the world, the other is the contamination...
Mitigating explosion risk at petrochemical plants
FIRE protection is a major challenge in chemical and petrochemical production: Many highly flammable substances are processed with varying risks of fire hazards and...
Another fire season is looming – how many more deaths?
THE number of people living in informal dwellings in the Cape Town metropole is staggering – although official figures are hard to come by...
Dealing with fire risk in a mining environment
MINING vehicles such as excavators, haul trucks and even drag lines are high-value assets that operate in arduous conditions where there is a high...
Latest regs fall short
THE newly-released 2020 version of SANS 10400-T, ‘The application of the National Building Regulations - Fire Protection’, still does not adequately address all of...
Redesigning sprinkler installation
Victaulic released the first UL Listed grooved mechanical coupling for fire protection piping services in 1952. Today, Victaulic technology includes a complete offering of...
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