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Industrial fire protection for the food industry

Maximum protection. Minimal disruption. Precise for demanding processes.

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Heat, dust and speed create a fire hazard.

Food processing combines high temperatures, dry organic materials, fine dusts and rapid conveying processes. Sparks, embers and overheated particles often arise unnoticed in dryers, roasters, mills, pelletisers, crushers and filter systems.

Ignition sources can spread rapidly via pneumatic and mechanical conveyor routes – for example, in coffee, cocoa and sugar factories.

Martin Bauer Group

The order books are full. We cannot afford any loss of production.Production Manager Konrad Ohlmann

A worrying trend that underlines the importance of fire prevention – extinguish fires before they spread!

The most effective method of minimising fire and explosion risks is to use powerful spark detection and extinguishing systems in combination with tailor-made fire protection concepts for machines and critical areas – developed and implemented by Fagus-GreCon.

> 1400

Fires recorded since 2014 – in Germany alone!

> 2200

Factory fires recorded worldwide in 2024.

> 2 bn €

per year is the amount of damage for German businesses.

The solution: GreCon PROTECTOR Food, our protection concept for the food industry

The GreCon PROTECTOR provides comprehensive protection for thermal, mechanical and pneumatic processes:

  • Detection of sparks, embers and overheated particles in milliseconds
  • Protection of all critical areas: dryers, mills, screens, presses, pelletisers, coolers, filters, silos, bunkers
  • Protection of mechanical and pneumatic conveyor systems
  • Immediate automatic diversion or precise low-pressure extinguishing – without stopping production
  • Complete event and trend documentation
  • Scalable from single units to complex production sites

All mechanisms described in cocoa and sugar processes (overheating, foreign objects, filter ignition) are integrated.

How the GreCon PROTECTOR works

  1. Detect – sensors detect sparks, hot particles or embers
  2. Decide – the system evaluates the risk in real time
  3. Extinguish – automatically, precisely and without interrupting production
  4. Analyse – the event data helps to eliminate causes in a targeted manner

The fu­ture of pre­ven­ti­ve in­dus­tri­al fire pro­tec­tion

For over 50 years, we have been developing tailor-made industrial fire protection concepts for every individual challenge in industrial fire protection – reliable, practical and precisely tailored to your processes.

Trust in over 50 years of experience in more than 100 industries

Benefit from 75,000 individually tailored protection concepts and experience gained from over 200,000 protected production areas. With Fagus-GreCon, you can effectively protect your company from the devastating consequences of a fire.

Consequences of a fire – more than just damage

Numerous fires in food factories follow the same pattern:

Heat + dust + dry materials + air flow = explosive conditions.

Typical consequences:

  • Danger to employees
  • Damage to roasters, dryers, filters, silos and conveyor systems
  • Shutdowns of entire production lines
  • Loss of raw materials and semi-finished goods
  • Delivery failures & contractual penalties
  • Insurance-related events
Ge­fah­ren in der Pelletproduktion

Hazards in the food industry

The food industry has many common causes of fire – regardless of whether it involves coffee, cocoa, sugar, spices, starch or grain.

  • Spark generation in thermal processes (roasting, drying, pelletising)
  • Embers in coolers, dryer outlets and product beds
  • Overheated particles due to foreign objects or defective machine parts
  • Sparks from metal abrasion in shredders and mills
  • Fine, dry dust in filters, silos, bag filters and cyclones
  • Flammable dust layers
  • Friction and heat generation on conveyor belts, deflections, screw conveyors
  • Electrostatic charging in pneumatic conveyor lines
  • Temperature peaks due to process disruptions
  • Deposits in pipes that can ignite

These risks are not a theoretical scenario. They are part of everyday operations and regularly lead to damage, production downtime and high follow-up costs.

Reliable fire protection is therefore not an optional extra, but a central component of stable and safe production.

And this is exactly where Fagus-GreCon comes in.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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