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The three-person management team at Fagus-GreCon has changed. Dr Gawronski is leaving the company with immediate effect. Mr Mario Haas will become the new third member of the management team from 1 December 2023. There are changes in the three-member management team at Fagus-GreCon. The shareholders of the Alfeld-based company have decided to reach a mutual agreement with Technical Managing Director Dr Michael Gawronski to part ways. Dr Gawronski is leaving the company with immediate effect. Furthermore, Mr Mario Haas will become the new third member of the Management Board as of 1 December 2023, focusing on the technical aspects. Mr Haas has already been with the company for four years and will also continue his previous responsibilities as Head of the Fire Protection business unit. Stephan Weber, Chairman of the Shareholders’ Council of Fagus-GreCon, explains these changes: ”The shareholders would like to thank Dr Gawronski for his important achievements and contributions and wish him all the best for the future. At the same time, the appointment of Mr Haas as our third Managing Director emphasises the growing importance of the Preventive Fire Protection business

With effect from 15.08.2023, Fagus-GreCon will in future divide the responsibility for the management of the company between three pairs of shoulders instead of two. With this step, the company is creating a further prerequisite for profitable growth as well as for driving the transformation process required by digitalisation and globalisation towards a customer-oriented technology leader in the fields of measurement technology and preventive fire protection even more consistently. ”In its more than one hundred year history, Fagus-GreCon has always managed to successfully master new challenges. I am looking forward to shaping the future of this company together with my colleagues and the committed employees in this important phase,” emphasises Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Kuppe, new member of the Fagus-GreCon management. Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Kuppe takes over the management of Marketing, Sales, After Sales and Service with immediate effect. Dipl.-Kfm. Uwe Kahmann continues to be responsible for all commercial areas of the company and its subsidiaries as well as for the UNESCO World Heritage Fagus plant. Dr. Michael Gawronski

The new intelligent automatic extinguishing system GreCon IEM makes existing spark extinguishing systems from Fagus-GreCon even more intelligent and reliable Sensor technology integrated into the automatic extinguishing system improves the operational safety of the systems through integrated early wear detection. Automatic early wear detection The smallest leaks are automatically detected and reported to the control centre. The system operator is proactively informed about the upcoming replacement of wear parts and can systematically plan the replacement. If temperatures approach the freezing point, the integrated temperature monitoring activates the heating cartridge and thus ensures the smooth operation of the system even in outdoor areas. The risk of unplanned downtimes is reduced and system availability increases. Maintenance based on wear data Advances in sensor technology also allow maintenance intervals to be individually determined on the basis of wear data. These dynamic maintenance intervals not only extend the maintenance intervals in the context of predictive maintenance, but also increase the service

The GreCon DLD 1/9 spark detector contains the patented optical detector system and IDT® for: Detection of sparks, glowing embers and hot, non-smouldering particles The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants Fagus-GreCon the patent for a novel optical detector that identifies dangerous ignition sources (U.S. Patent No. US11199441B2). Fagus-GreCon, the leading provider of fire prevention systems, thereby reinforces its role as a technological leader in fire prevention. The company’s innovative optical detector is a key prerequisite for further strengthening the interconnection of fire prevention, production reliability and quality assurance. A powerful trio Thanks to Fagus-GreCon’s recently patented optical detector system, spark detectors are becoming even more reliable, as they can now be customised to the requirements at the installation site with more precision than ever before. This is made possible by multi-sensor technology which has been integrated in the optical detector to capture signals from the infrared radiation spectrum. GreCon IDT®, Fagus-GreCon’s intelligent detector technology processes the signals

Preventive fire protection systems integrated into process control perform tasks for ensuring product quality in addition to working as an early warning system today thanks to smart sensors and their smart networking. A contribution to productivity increase and quality assurance The digitalisation growth of the last few months opens up new options for designing many different processes more efficiently in integrated preventive fire protection of industrial production systems as well. Preventive fire protection systems integrated into process control perform tasks for ensuring product quality in addition to working as an early warning system today thanks to smart sensors and their smart networking. Direct data exchange with production control not only permits process visualisations, but also control and regulation processes. This increased connectivity is the most important building block in order to predictively plan maintenance tasks with the help of data analyses in fire protection facilities and to increase the usage duration of components at consistently high plant safety in future as well. Additionally, the risk of unplanned downtimes reduces and productivity increases.

GreCon fire protection concept sees to safe beet chip drying at Nordzucker When drying beet chips, a by-product of the sugar production that is popular as animal feed, fire can easily occur in the dryer drums and the downstream transport ducts. Due to very high drying temperatures of about 600 degrees, glowing particles can occur even in the area of humid chips. If these glowing particles reach the dried material at the dryer outlet, they can result in big glowing embers. If ignition sources reach the downstream transport or exhaust ducts, fire can spread out in large parts of the dry chip processing and destroy, at worst, complete production plants. Although spark detection and temperature monitoring have been standard in these plant areas for many years, an automatic extinguishment has, however, been missing in the entire industry. This insufficient safety equipment has been a very unsatisfactory situation for Europe`s second largest sugar manufacturer, Nordzucker AG, for a long time and led to cases of damage and production interruptions

Spark extinguishing systems have been an integral part of security concepts of preventive fire and explosion protection in the various industrial processes. The task of this technology is to detect the smallest ignition source such as sparks and glowing particles in time and to extinguish them safety by local limited extinguishing measures before these sparks and glowing particles could damage machinery or other equipment. Especially in pneumatic transport ducts is this a thousand fold proven technology to protect filter systems, silos or bins against fires or explosions. Gladly GreCon will show you during the POWTECH how simply it will be possible to protect your plant as well. If a spark will be detected a fine extinguishing efficient water mist spray will be inserted in the corresponding exhaust ducts for an adjustable extinguishing time to safety extinguish the sparks. This will certainly prevent that the spark can be the fire or explosion reason in the filter,

... reliably prevents fire in dryers, filters and silos The occurrence of glowing or hot particles cannot be completely excluded from many processes. If ignition sources are transported into filters and silos via the extraction system or other conveying facilities, devastating fires and explosions can be triggered. By means of infrared sensors and downstream extinguishing nozzles, the ignition sources in mechanical and pneumatic conveying systems are reliably detected and extinguished before they reach plant areas at risk. For those applications in which water extinguishment is not possible or reasonable, GreCon developed special fire traps or diversion gates, which prevent the damaging effects of the ignition sources as quickly as the water extinguishment. Not only has the technical implementation of the principle “extinguish sparks before fire occurs” been permanently improved and optimised until now. A high level has been reached especially regarding the operation of the system and the documentation of alarms and