INTRODUCTION This article explains the requirements of ro-ro passenger ships to protect the weather deck with fire detection and fire monitors. As a general rule, the SOLAS Convention applies to passenger ships on international voyages. This includes ro-ro passenger (ro-pax) ships world-wide. These regulations are governed by the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO’s) Maritime Safety Committee…
July 14, 2020 Fire on USS Bonhomme Richard May Have Been Preventable by Swedish FlameRanger Technology A tragic fire broke out on June 12 on the USS Bonhomme Richard aircraft carrier in San Diego, while docked and being retrofitted to deploy the latest generation of fighter jets. According to AP News, the blaze “broke out…
Swedish high-tech firefighting robotics lab, Unifire AB, has developed a jaw-dropping fire fighting robot that is poised to protect weather decks on Ro-Ro ships in the near future. The following video shows tests of Unifire AB’s FlameRanger autonomous fire fighting robot–a fully autonomous and remote controlled fire monitor system, which automatically, and without any human…
Tyco FPP’s SPRAYSAFE AFS, licensed by Unifire AB, can mitigate high rise building facade fires like the May 5 fire in the Abbco Tower in Sharjah, UAE.
April 2020 Unifire AB of Sweden is proud to announce that it has concluded an Authorized Dealer agreement with KC Glass & Materials Co., Ltd. (“KC Eco”) for the territory of the Republic Korea. KC Glass—a member of the KC Green Holdings (“KCGH”) Group—brings knowledge and experience of Unifire’s FlameRanger™ systems and Force monitors, as…
Turn-Key, Fully Automatic Heat & Fire Detection and Suppression Systems Designed to Protect Recycling Plants and Waste Management Facilities In recent years, despite the rapid leap in technology of heat detection, fire detection, and fire extinguishing and suppression systems, the recycling and waste management industries face significant challenges in finding a turn-key, off-the-shelf, fully automatic…
Unifire is proud to announce that it is a consortium member of the EU funded project LASH FIRE, which aims to improve ro-ro ship fire safety. The following press release is from the LASH Fire website (click here) Project partners from 13 EU Member States investigate cost-efficient measures to mitigate the risk from ro-ro space fires….
International Fire Fighter Magazinecovers Unifire’s advanced robotic nozzle control systems in its September, 2019 issue. Unifire’s ONE App–the first app on the market for the control of robotic nozzles (aka remote controlled firefighting monitors, or water cannons)–is a full-featured virtual joystick for any iOS or Android device. Unifire also offers computer-based / web-based graphical user…
The December 2016 edition of International Fire Fighter Magazine features the FlameRanger XT, Unifire’s solution for the automatic fire detection and suppression of fires that develop on high-rise building exteriors. The article, entitled, “Swedish Solution for High-Rise Building Fires”, explains the FlameRanger XT system, and is published here with permission from MDM Publishing. Swedish Solution…
December 5, 2016 Unifire AB presented its FlameRanger™ fully automatic and autonomous fire detection and extinguishing system at the Lighthouse conference on Autonomous Vessels—a Higher Degree of Autonomy for Increased Safety, held on December 5, 2016, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Lighthouse Swedish Maritime Competence Centre gathers leading maritime stakeholders through Triple-Helix collaboration between industry, society,…