Over­view

Print­ing busi­nesses, where all busi­ness pro­cesses are de­signed to provide cus­tom­ers with a de­pend­able sup­ply at all times, 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 com­bus­tion in the pro­duc­tion pro­cess are not de­tec­ted as soon as they de­velop dev­ast­at­ing fires may 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 equip­ment there­fore re­quires the use of spe­cial fire pro­tec­tion sys­tems that are pre­cisely tailored to the par­tic­u­lar pro­cess tech­no­logy. Flames, smoke, gas emis­sions, heat – fire has many fa­cets. Minimax has the right fire de­tect­ors for the vari­ous areas within a paper pro­cessing and print­ing plant. Their sig­nals con­verge in the fire de­tec­tion and ex­tin­guish­ing con­trol panel, which is­sues an alarm to the people at risk and the fire bri­gade. In ad­di­tion, the Minimax panel mon­it­ors the in­stalled fire pro­tec­tion sys­tem for proper func­tion­ing and elec­tric­ally trig­gers the ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems that are not equipped with their own trig­ger­ing ele­ments, e.g. sprink­ler sys­tems. A sprink­ler sys­tem en­sures over­all build­ing pro­tec­tion. Minimax of­fers a broad range of sprink­ler types and spe­cial sprink­lers that allow for ideal ad­apt­a­tion of the sprink­ler sys­tem to the re­spect­ive in­stall­a­tion situ­ation in the vari­ous pro­tec­ted areas. The cen­ter 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, the sys­tem also ini­ti­ates im­port­ant con­trol im­pulses, e.g. to in­ter­rupt the sup­ply of ink or ma­ter­ial, stop the ma­chinery, switch off dry­ing fa­cil­it­ies and to ac­tiv­ate the alarm or­gan­iz­a­tion. Struc­tural fire pro­tec­tion, as well as tech­nical sys­tems by Minimax Mo­bile Ser­vices, such as fire ex­tin­guish­ers, wall hy­drants and smoke and heat ex­trac­tion sys­tems, com­plete fire pro­tec­tion in paper pro­cessing and print plants.