Case Study REMONDIS GmbH & Co. KG, Region Nord


Case Study REMONDIS GmbH & Co. KG, Region Nord *To ensure better protection in the future, the recycling company is now relying on T&B’s preventive fire protection solutions. Read more:* REMONDIS GmbH & Co. KG, Northern Region, is a regional environmental services provider within the REMONDIS Group, headquartered in Melsdorf. The company specializes in waste management, recycling, raw material recovery, and waste disposal logistics, and serves municipalities as well as industrial and commercial customers in northern Germany and parts of central Germany. Among other things, the facilities accept, sort, process, recycle, and properly dispose of plastics, metals, waste electrical and electronic equipment, and batteries. Processing a wide variety of materials—some of which are unsorted—creates increased fire risks. Therefore, effective preventive and organizational fire protection at the facilities is essential. To ensure better protection in the future, the recycling company is now relying on preventive fire protection solutions from T&B. For the new facility in Melsdorf, the requirement was to effectively safeguard the fire-prone process area consisting of a shredder, sorting screen, and discharge conveyors. The goal was to detect fire risks in the material flow at an early stage and to initiate appropriate measures to contain or completely prevent the potential spread of fire. The fire-prone process areas, the mobile shredder, sorting screen, and discharge conveyors, are protected by a T&B safety concept featuring two thermal cameras At 80 °C, a visual and audible warning is triggered; at 100 °C, the fire suppression system is automatically activated. Water spray suppression is directed through nozzles located on the discharge conveyors, sorting screen, and shredder. The conveyor belt is not designed to stop in the event of activation; however, the material feed is halted and the system is emptied to minimize damage. The material is transported to a secure area, where the automatic fire suppression system continues to spray it with water, cooling embers and other ignition sources and preventing the fire from spreading. The combination of early thermal detection and automatic fire suppression ensures that critical temperature events are reliably detected and mitigated during operation, making a decisive contribution to enhancing plant and operational safety in waste processing. T&B electronic demonstrated impressive efficiency and comprehensive expertise in plant-based fire protection at REMONDIS GmbH & Co. KG, Northern Region. The protection concept was developed entirely by T&B electronic and tailored specifically to the project. T&B implemented the system on a turnkey basis and performed all services with its own specialized staff, from planning and installation through commissioning and handover. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

REMONDIS GmbH & Co. KG, Northern Region, is a regional environmental services provider within the REMONDIS Group, headquartered in Melsdorf. The company specializes in waste management, recycling, raw material recovery, and waste disposal logistics, and serves municipalities as well as industrial and commercial customers in northern Germany and parts of central Germany.

Among other things, the facilities accept, sort, process, recycle, and properly dispose of plastics, metals, waste electrical and electronic equipment, and batteries. Processing a wide variety of materials—some of which are unsorted—creates increased fire risks. Therefore, effective preventive and organizational fire protection at the facilities is essential.

To ensure better protection in the future, the recycling company is now relying on preventive fire protection solutions from T&B.

For the new facility in Melsdorf, the requirement was to effectively safeguard the fire-prone process area consisting of a shredder, sorting screen, and discharge conveyors. The goal was to detect fire risks in the material flow at an early stage and to initiate appropriate measures to contain or completely prevent the potential spread of fire.

The fire-prone process areas, the mobile shredder, sorting screen, and discharge conveyors, are protected by a T&B safety concept featuring two thermal cameras At 80 °C, a visual and audible warning is triggered; at 100 °C, the fire suppression system is automatically activated.

Water spray suppression is directed through nozzles located on the discharge conveyors, sorting screen, and shredder. The conveyor belt is not designed to stop in the event of activation; however, the material feed is halted and the system is emptied to minimize damage. The material is transported to a secure area, where the automatic fire suppression system continues to spray it with water, cooling embers and other ignition sources and preventing the fire from spreading.

The combination of early thermal detection and automatic fire suppression ensures that critical temperature events are reliably detected and mitigated during operation, making a decisive contribution to enhancing plant and operational safety in waste processing.

T&B electronic demonstrated impressive efficiency and comprehensive expertise in plant-based fire protection at REMONDIS GmbH & Co. KG, Northern Region. The protection concept was developed entirely by T&B electronic and tailored specifically to the project. T&B implemented the system on a turnkey basis and performed all services with its own specialized staff, from planning and installation through commissioning and handover.

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