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A big stage for a safety system that is at best not in the spotlight in everyday business: on 28 April, fire protection specialist Fagus-GreCon received the iF DESIGN AWARD 2025 in gold. The company accepted the award for the GreCon PROTECTOR on the stage of the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin - in front of around 2,000 guests from over 50 nations.
This makes the preventive fire protection system one of 77 solutions worldwide to be honoured with gold. The GreCon PROTECTOR, a new system for fire prevention in industrial plants, impressed the international jury with its combination of technical innovation and sophisticated design - even before its official market launch.
With the GreCon PROTECTOR, Fagus-GreCon plays a special role among internationally recognised design icons such as Apple and Ferrari: a fire protection system on a design award stage - that is not an everyday occurrence.

A design that goes beyond pure aesthetics

The jury particularly recognised the intuitive operability and practice-oriented design. Developed as a modular safety concept, GreCon PROTECTOR can be flexibly integrated into a wide range of industrial environments - with the aim of preventing fires and explosions before they even start.
What is meant by ‘design’ here goes beyond pure aesthetics. It is about combining functionality, clarity and user-centredness - a system that guides users through its structure rather than overwhelming them and makes safety thinking visible.

”The fact that a fire protection system has been honoured with a gold design award shows that design can be more than just aesthetics. For us, design means bringing technology and people together - comprehensibly, reliably and effectively. The iF DESIGN AWARD is confirmation for us that our standards are also recognised internationally,” says Mario Haas, Managing Director at Fagus-GreCon.

A look at the past also shows: The design of industrial systems has a long tradition at Fagus-GreCon. The company was honoured with its first iF DESIGN AWARD back in 1995 - in red at the time. Three decades later, it has now been honoured with gold.
The GreCon PROTECTOR will be presented to the public for the first time at LIGNA 2025 in Hanover - together with the new MISSION CONTROL control centre. Visitors will have the opportunity to have the excellent system explained to them directly by the experts.