SAPFIR autonomous suppression

A system that kills the fire without power and without you

The sensor reacts above 72 °C, the module fires dry powder, and what's left afterwards is a job for a vacuum cleaner. No pressure, no maintenance, 12 years of service life.

  • 12-year service life
  • Works without electricity
  • Classes A, B, C, E
SA-01 signalling unit — visual and audible warning when suppression fires
Racked warehouse protected by autonomous suppression
Technician inspecting a suppression system
Switchboard protected by autonomous suppression
Why SAPFIR

It works where water does more damage than the fire

Gas needs a sealed room with nobody in it. Water and foam flood the floor below and write off your electronics — at Aupark in 2016 the automatic water system took out the building's entire camera network for nearly three months. SAPFIR powder leaves servers, antiques and people alone.

No power needed

TPS sensors run on no energy source at all. When the mains drop or the switchboard burns out, the system still works.

Safe for people and animals

The powder is harmless to health. The room needs no sealing and none of the evacuation drill that gas suppression demands.

Clean-up is a vacuum cleaner

Dry powder sweeps or vacuums away. Electronics survive, and transformers up to 40,000 V are extinguished without damage.

12 years, no maintenance

The modules hold no pressure, so there is nothing to charge or refill. A home needs one inspection a year, industry every six months.

Products

Modules, lamps and sensors

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MPH-4 module
MPH modules A · B · C · E

MPH-4 module

40 m² and 100 m³ of class A. The module that put out 25 litres of hydrogen peroxide.

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MPH-5 module
MPH modules A · B · C · E

MPH-5 module

Discharges powder horizontally. For flat voids no other module can reach.

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Coverage calculator

Find out how many modules your space needs

Enter the dimensions and what can burn inside. The calculator picks modules by area and fire class — from the MPH-2 for 25 m² up to the MPH-24 with a 20-metre throw.

  1. 1
    Describe the space

    Area, ceiling height and type of operation. A server room is a different problem from a granulate store.

  2. 2
    Pick the fire class

    Solids, liquids, gases or electrics. Most sites end up with at least two of them.

  3. 3
    Get a zone layout

    A split into suppression zones, the number of MPH modules and TPS sensors. We send the quote by email.

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12 years of service life Nothing to pressurise or refill
−65 to +125 °C ambient range Indoors or out, in frost or beside a furnace
40,000 volts Extinguishes transformers without damage
4 fire classes A solids, B liquids, C gases, E electrics
Case studies

Where SAPFIR is already on watch

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Aupark Bratislava — data nodes
energetika · 2016

Aupark Bratislava — data nodes

Water put out a cable fire. It flooded the shops one floor below and took the CCTV system down for three months.

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Škoda Auto — Mladá Boleslav
priemysel · 2017

Škoda Auto — Mladá Boleslav

After a bad experience with gas suppression in the engine shop, they needed something that harms neither electronics nor people.

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Hyundai Motors — robotic lines in SK and CZ
priemysel · 2018

Hyundai Motors — robotic lines in SK and CZ

After a robotic line fire ran into millions, the Korean head office sent representatives to Slovakia.

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DEZA a.s. — 25-litre peroxide suppression test
priemysel · 2018

DEZA a.s. — 25-litre peroxide suppression test

The standards called for 12 kg of powder. The head of the works brigade bet that 4 kg would not do it. It did.

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CRH Slovakia — cement and construction chemicals
stavebnictvo · 2015

CRH Slovakia — cement and construction chemicals

Chemical processes cause self-ignition. Water and foam are no use in lime and adhesive production — and in frost they freeze.

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Synthesia Pardubice — chemicals and explosives
priemysel · 2016

Synthesia Pardubice — chemicals and explosives

Chemical production, explosives manufacture, cable ducts and munitions stores. Working together since 2016.

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Reviews

What operators say

„We had gas suppression. After the engine shop fire we realised the question is not only whether it puts the fire out, but what it does to people and electronics on the way. Before signing anything, we wanted to see a physical test on our own site. Only then did we talk about a design."

Vedúci údržby Automobilový závod, ČR

„The fire in the data nodes cost us less than the water that put it out. It flooded the shops one floor below and the building CCTV was down for nearly three months. Since then, with every new space, the first question we ask is what the suppression will do — not the fire."

Správca objektu Obchodné centrum, SR

„We run two furnaces up to 180 °C. Above that line the chemical self-ignites, and the original suppression could not cope — it burned along with the furnace. They tested the modules at 100 to 150 °C in continuous 24-hour operation. That was the only trial that meant anything to us."

Riaditeľ výroby Výroba komponentov, SR

„The first fire took the brigade several days and the damage ran into millions. Six months after the system went in, fire broke out again in the same buildings. That time we were not dealing with property damage — we were dealing with replacing cartridges."

Prevádzkový technik Spracovanie odpadu, DE

„A burnt-out grinder means roughly three and a half million euros and two years before the machine is back. This is not about fire protection; it is about whether we have anything to work with. Today every machine that goes out on the line has suppression on the engine and the hydraulic heads."

Vedúci depa Údržba koľajových strojov, ČR

„The technician arrived in the morning and it was done by the afternoon — three luminaires, about half an hour each. It looks like an ordinary pendant; not one visitor has noticed anything is there. An inspection once a year is the whole of my involvement."

Majiteľ bytu Domácnosť, Bratislava

Is there a space nobody is watching at three in the morning?

Get in touch and we'll walk your site. You'll get a zone layout, a module count, and a straight answer on what the system will and won't do when the fire starts.

News

Live fire tests and changes in the rules

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