A suppression system is not judged on stars but on what it does when something catches fire. You get both here — feedback from the field and documented outcomes.
These are summarised experiences from installations, not verified quotes from named individuals. We give the role and the sector rather than names, because our customers have not agreed to be named. The verifiable project details sit in our case studies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of star ratings, here are things that actually happened, with the site's name attached.
Two rotor-curing ovens run up to 180 °C — above that the chemical ignites on its own. The original gas suppression failed to put the oven out and wrecked it. We tested our modules at 100 to 150 °C in continuous 24-hour operation. The plant director put the saving at more than €1 million.
The standards call for at least 12 kg of powder on that volume. The head of the fire brigade bet that the four kilos inside an MPH-4 would not do it. The test came out exactly as our guarantee said it would. Many autonomous systems on the site followed.
A waste site after a major fire that took crews days to beat and ran to millions in damage. We installed the system over the 2016–2017 turn of the year. In mid-2017 the same buildings caught fire again — this time with no damage to property.
We run physical suppression tests before any contract is signed. That is how both Škoda Auto and DEZA started with us.
