Statistically, a fire breaks out every two minutes in Germany, often causing significant damage. In today's global competition, no logistics company can afford to lose goods and suffer downtime. Warehouse and logistics operators depend on absolutely reliable fire protection to protect people and goods, and to maintain operational processes and the ability to deliver.
Intelligent and reliable fire protection systems that can withstand the extreme conditions inside deep-freeze storage facilities ensure preservation of the supply chain, and protect cold and deep-freeze warehouses against fire-related downtime. Conventional systems quickly reach their limits in such situations, such as sprinklers, whose extinguishing water must be mixed with antifreeze. As a result, goods are lost not only to fire, smoke and soot, but also to extinguishing water contamination. This creates long-term obstacles to delivery capability, as operations are hindered by often lengthy and complicated cleaning work. At WAGNER, we offer specific solutions that protect your warehouse from fire-related operational interruptions.
RISK ANALYSIS
A fire can spread quickly in a warehouse and cause enormous damage: from minor disruptions to logistics processes and the supply chain to complete operational failure and, in the worst case, the destruction of goods, values and fixed assets. The causes of a fire are diverse.
On the one hand, the so-called chimney effect promotes the rapid spread of fire in the narrow and high spaces between the racks. Due to the difficult visibility and accessibility of the warehouse, fires cannot usually be fought in a targeted manner. The high degree of automation with numerous electrical components (cooling systems, motors, etc.), the cardboard or plastic packaging materials and the type of stored goods (highly flammable or self-igniting) are further sources of danger. In addition, there is a high fire load in refrigerated and deep-freeze warehouses due to the very dry atmosphere.
PROTECTION GOALS
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BETTER SOLUTIONS IN FIRE PROTECTION
Conventional systems such as sprinkler systems quickly reach their limits in these protected areas. As antifreeze has to be added to the extinguishing water, the goods are not only the victims of fire, smoke and soot in the event of a fire, but are also contaminated by the extinguishing water. The operational continuity is jeopardized due to costly cleaning work that needs to be completed prior to the resumption of operations. The great heights of the logistics centers of up to 40 meters mean that some extinguishing systems react slowly – valuable time is lost before the extinguishing water reaches the source of the fire.
That is why we at WAGNER rely on active and preventive fire protection that eliminates the risk of fire under defined conditions. Our active fire prevention system OxyReduct® is used, which works on the principle of oxygen reduction.
Due to the high degree of automation in these storage environments, small smouldering and cable fires can still occur even in oxygen-reduced protected areas. Our aspirating smoke detectors of our TITANUS® product family offer a decisive time advantage. They continuously take air samples from the ambient air and detect even the smallest smoke particles at a very early stage of fire development (pyrolysis) without causing false alarms. The detectors are designed for use in environments down to -40°C and can be perfectly adapted to your organizations requirements thanks to their modularity.
Whether ice cream, frozen vegetables, fruit, fish or meat – with this fire protection solution, your goods are comprehensively protected against the risk of fire and consequential damage caused by contamination.
BENEFITS
Our fire protection solutions withstand the extreme conditions in deep-freeze warehouses and protect refrigerated and deep-freeze warehouses from fire-related business interruptions.
Reliable protection of your goods and values from damage caused by fire, extinguishing agents or smoke contamination.
Protection of your supply chain by ensuring uninterrupted ability to deliver.
Avoidance of fire-related consequential and image damage.
Our fire protection systems can be adapted at any time and “grow” with the storage system.
Active fire prevention rules out fire-related environmental damage from the outset.
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