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Industrial fire protection for the MDF industry

Maximum protection. Minimal disruption. Precise for continuous processes.

Início Prevenção de incêndios Indústrias MDF Industry

Where dry fibres, heat and speed come together, there is a risk of fire.

MDF production plants operate continuously, with high throughputs and highly flammable materials. Processes such as shredding, drying, gluing and pressing generate sparks, smouldering pockets and glowing particles that can spread via extraction and transport systems into filters, cyclones or silos.

Even the smallest ignition sources are enough to ignite explosive wood dust concentrations – with potentially far-reaching consequences for the plant, personnel and production.

Fagus-GreCon

In MDF production, the decisive factor is not whether ignition sources arise, but whether they are detected and controlled in good time.GreCon Engineering

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 €

a year is the amount of damage for German businesses.

GreCon PROTECTOR MDF – our protection concept for the MDF industry

The MDF industry requires a fire protection concept that reliably safeguards continuous processes, high dust loads and thermally stressed plant components.

The GreCon PROTECTOR offers a comprehensive, tried-and-tested protection concept.

Your added value with our GreCon PROTECTOR

  • Early detection of sparks, glowing particles and thermal anomalies
  • Protection of all relevant process stages: shredding, drying, moulding station, press, cutting and sanding
  • Protection of extraction systems, transport lines, filters, cyclones, silos and dosing bunkers
  • Immediate automatic diversion or precise low-pressure extinguishing – in 99 per cent of cases without interrupting production
  • Millisecond-precise event documentation for cause analysis
  • Modular design – scalable from individual units to complete MDF lines

The protection concept is specially tailored to the production conditions of the MDF industry and has been in use for decades.

How 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
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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

Fires and explosions in MDF plants often affect dryers, filters or silos – areas with a high fire load and great potential for escalation.

Typical consequences:

  • Endangerment of employees
  • Damage to machinery, transport and extraction systems
  • Production interruptions and long restart times
  • Repair and replacement costs
  • Loss of orders and customers
  • Rising insurance premiums

The costs of inaction are high. Effective fire protection is not only a safety measure, but a strategic necessity.

Caution Hazard sign on an industrial bridge
Ge­fah­ren in der Pelletproduktion

Hazards in MDF production

MDF production combines dry wood fibres, high temperatures and intense material movement – ideal conditions for ignition sources.

Typical hazards in MDF plants:

  • Spark formation during wood shredding and processing
  • Smouldering pockets in dryers and dryer cyclones
  • Overheated particles in grinding machines and saws
  • Wood dust concentrations in extraction systems and filters
  • Spark transmission via pneumatic transport lines
  • Dust deposits in silos and dosing bunkers
  • Frictional heat at conveyor and deflection points
  • Smouldering fires in presses or material accumulations

The result? An ideal environment for fires and explosions.

These risks are not theoretical – they are real, occur repeatedly and cause high costs. That is why effective fire protection is not an option, but a necessity.

And this is exactly where Fagus-GreCon comes in.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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