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We have the right solution for the printing industry
 Printing businesses, where all the company process are designed to provide customers with a dependable supply at every time, cannot afford to compromise when it comes to fire protection. Whether offset printing machines, letter presses, gravure printing presses, silk screen printing machines - if the first signs of a combustion in the production process are not spotted as soon as they develop then devastating fires may be the result. Cover can be taken out to insure against interruptions to operations but there is no replacement for loss of customers and market share. The protection of people and plant therefore means that the use of special fire protection systems is essential, systems which are precisely tailor-made for the process technology concerned.
The centre of the fire protection concept for printing machines is a rapid reaction fire extinguishing system which can independently identify acute fire risks and which uses argon or carbon dioxide to fight a developing fire. While carrying out the extinguishing process it also initiates important control pulses e.g. to interrupt the supply of colouring or material, stop machinery, switch off drying facilities and activate the alarm organisation.
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Fire risks in the printing industry
- Use of easily flammable materials
- Development of potentially explosive concentrations of colourings and solvents
- Heating of the print material in the machine e.g. through the effect of mechanical friction heat where parts are running very quickly, or in the drying process
- Static electricity in combination with easily combustible colourings or solvents
- Deposits of colourings, synthetic material or paper in the machinery and in ventilation and evacuation channels
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