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Factories often operate under conditions where fire risk is significantly higher than standard commercial environments. Heat-generating machinery, electrical loads, flammable materials and continuous production all contribute to a more complex risk profile.
At SmartMist, we provide fire suppression for factories that is built around these realities. Our systems are designed to react quickly, contain fire effectively and support safe working conditions without interrupting production more than necessary.
Fire protection in factories requires a system that can handle demanding conditions while remaining reliable over time.
We focus on delivering practical, robust fire suppression systems that are designed specifically for industrial use.
In a factory setting, fire can impact far more than just the building itself. A properly designed fire suppression system helps protect critical production lines and machinery, as well as raw materials and finished goods, while also safeguarding staff working in higher-risk areas. Beyond immediate safety, it plays a key role in maintaining ongoing operations, reducing downtime, and ensuring your business can continue to meet output demands and contractual obligations.
Factories are not static environments. Different processes, materials and equipment all influence how fire can start and spread.
We assess how your facility operates day-to-day, identifying where risks are most likely to occur. This allows us to design a factory fire suppression system that works with your processes, rather than against them.
Stopping production is often not an option. Our approach to installation focuses on reducing disruption, whether that involves working in stages, coordinating around shift patterns or completing work during planned downtime.
This ensures your fire suppression system is installed efficiently without unnecessary impact on output.
Factories must meet strict safety expectations, particularly where fire risk is elevated. Our systems are designed to support compliance with recognised standards set by the British Standards Institution, helping you maintain a safer working environment and meet regulatory requirements.
We work with manufacturers and industrial businesses across the UK, delivering fire suppression systems for factories of varying sizes and complexities.
Speak to our team about fire suppression for factories and find a solution designed around your processes and operational needs.
National services are often taken for granted, without thinking about the considerable investment into businesses and infrastructure that goes on behind the scenes.
Everyday processes are often assumed to just work; however, they are often driven by large, expensive pieces if machinery that require a lot of configuration, maintenance and monitoring. Not to mention the initial expense of the machinery, and the costs associated if it becomes damaged.
A large, UK-based materials processing company approached us for plant-specific protection or large materials processing machines, with a specific interest of protecting the machinery items which are often running for upwards of 20 hours a day.
We surveyed several their sites across the UK to understand the areas they wanted protecting, the risks involved at each particular location and what the best solution would be after speaking to each individual site manager. Their primary concern was machinery overheating, leading to increased fire-risks if the machinery is unmonitored for a short period of time.
The end solution was a self-contained cylinder based open-head deluge system, which led to ‘total flooding’ in the particular risk area. This consisted of a series of water and nitrogen cylinders, equal to the risk and discharge time required by the client, and mechanical activation valves linked to an electronic system control panel. The primary source of activation was using a series of smoke and heat detectors, set up in a double-knock arrangement, to ensure no false activations. Once a ‘confirmed fire’ signal was received by the control panel, an electrical signal was sent to the solenoid valve which allows for a full system discharge through all open nozzles. This was set for the extent of the risk from the machinery, so that no surrounding area was affected by fire spread.
The solution was compact and cylinder arrangements flexible to enable the engineers to install into a variety of different spaces as deemed best by the site management teams.
The system is serviced annually, without a wet discharge test, however all components and electrical control systems are tested for full system integrity.
We have since installed eight further systems on various sites with twelve more pencilled for the nest two years
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