Fire safety articles

Technical articles on Fire safety: valve and expansion joint selection, application and installation notes.

A valve in a fire cabinet goes unopened for years, then has to open once, immediately. A few centimetres inside the cabinet either...

A ship’s fire main is fed with seawater and waits unused for years. The circuit itself decides the material; the yard’s standard d...

Fittings on a fire line may stand unused for years and must work first time at exactly the moment they are needed.

The value of a quick-closing valve is not that it shuts fast but that nobody has to enter the hazardous space to shut it. The loca...

The international shore connection is not a valve but a compatibility part. Its only job is to guarantee that the fire main can be...

What breaks a pipeline in an earthquake is not pressure but different parts of the structure moving in different directions. The c...

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