Industrial - Illinois Fire & Safety Company

Automatic”Waterless” Fire Suppression Systems for Industrial/Manufacturing Facilities

Critical Assets to Protect:

Aerosol production
Anechoic test chambers
Automotive paint spray booths
Boiler/furnace room
Cable trays
Cell sites
Cement plant coal mills
Chemical and physical laboratories, fume hoods and glove boxes
Clean rooms
CNC machine centers
Coating and finishing operations
Compressor and pumping station equipment/facilities
Control rooms, PLC areas
Cranes
De greasing equipment
Die cutters and dryers
Dip tanks
Dust collectors and bag houses
Electric Discharge Machining (EDM)
Electric mining machinery
Electric power and motor control rooms
Environmental test chambers
Flammable liquid storage, handling, and transfer areas
Flammable processes
Fuel dispensing and storage areas
Fume/exhaust recovery equipment
Generator rooms
Hazardous manufacturing and storage areas
Heat treating equipment
Hydro-electric dams
Industrial fryers
Inventory
IT systems/hardware/software
IT/electrical cabinets
Cafeteria cooking lines
Laboratories
Laminating processes
Limited finishing work areas
Locomotives
Machinery and pump rooms
Manufacturing machinery and assets
Metal finishing
Mixing vats
Modular hazmat storage buildings
Off-road vehicles
Oil collection stations
Ovens
Paint mixing, application, and storage areas
Particle board chippers
Prep stations
Printing presses and ink storage areas
Quench tanks
Records and media storage
Recycling facilities
Rolling mills
Robotic equipment
Semiconductor tool works
Sensitive electronic equipment
Solder machines – wave and reflow
Spray booths and spray operations
Spill containment dikes
Sub-floors
Switch gear rooms
Test cells
Test kitchen cooking lines
Telecommunications equipment
Transformers and transformer vaults
Turbines
Vital, long-replenishment time equipment, parts, and components
Wet benches
Wind generators

Other water-sensitive electronic equipment, processes, or areas

Safety First

Fires successfully extinguished by fire systems designed, installed, and maintained by Illinois Fire & Safety:

Note: Estimated savings values do not include prevention of significant revenue-per-hour losses resulting in downtime that would have been incurred had the fires been allowed to continue without rapid extinguishment.

Feb '09 A fire occurred in a metal cutting machine. Stainless steel was being cut at the time and a small piece of paper got in the cooling oil tank and plugged the oil pump. Without oil flowing to cool the cutting process, the machine caught on fire. The detector "saw" the fire and automatically activated the Co2 extinguishing agent, while simultaneously calling the fire department. The fire system quickly put out the fire. There was no damage to the machine, which was back in operation within 1/2 an hour of the fire. The value of the machine was about $475,000.00, while the cost of the fire system to protect it was only $8,000.00.
Aug. '08 A fire occurred in the engine compartment of a wheel loader performing hot work in a steel mill. The engine compartment was protected with a foam system and the operator's cab was fitted with a deluge system that enabled the operator to safely escape the vehicle, while the foam system extinguished the fire. Estimated value of vehicle that was saved: $750,000.00.
May '08 A fire occurred in a CNC machine that was protected by a Co2 fire suppression system. This was the second fire in five months on the same machine. The fire was extinguished automatically without the need to fight the fire with portable fire extinguishers. Estimated value of the machine that was saved: $500,000.00. Apr '08 A fire occurred in a CNC machine that was part of an interconnected line of machines. The line was protected by a Co2 fire system with optical and heat detectors. The detectors sensed the fire quickly and the system activated automatically, quickly extinguishing the fire and preventing it from involving the other interconnected machines in the line. Estimated value of the machine that was saved: $350,000.00 Estimated value of the line of machines that were saved: $2,200,000.00.
Feb. '08 A fire occurred in a CNC machine which was protected by a Co2 system. The system detected the fire and actuated automatically putting out the fire in seconds. Because the Co2 leaves no residue, no clean up was necessary and the machine was back in operation in less than half an hour. Estimated value of machine that was saved: $500,000.00.
Jan '08 A fire occurred in a CNC machine which was protected by a Co2 fire system. The fire was extinguished quickly with minimal damage and before the fire department arrived. Estimated value of the machine that was saved: $500,000.00.
Jan '07 Sparks from a welder ignited the filters in an automotive paint spray booth. The booth was protected by a dry chemical fire suppression system. The system's thermal bulb detectors sensed the fire and automatically activated the extinguishing system while the welder sought safety. The system discharged the dry chemical simultaneously in the work area, filter area, and exhaust duct preventing the spread of the fire throughout the whole booth. Estimated value of the booth that was saved: $22,000.00.