Thermal imaging cameras have become an integral part of everyday life within the fire service. While some years ago the thermal imaging camera was still a tool exclusively used by urban or professional fire brigades, [...]
Surfactants reduce the surface tension of liquids and thus enable foaming. In everyday use, you can find them in soaps, shampoos, and detergents. Extinguishing foam contains fluorinated surfactants, some of which are known environmental toxins [...]
High-end pump unit for the Rosenbauer COMMANDER with N130, Hydromatic G12, H5 and RM130 "Application ratio kills the fire" is often the primary argument put forward by American industrial fire departments. This equates [...]
Before a "firefighting" helmet is placed on the market and may subsequently be used in different application scenarios, it must be tested and certified according to the standards applicable to the respective country. The [...]
Failure of fire-fighting equipment during an operation can lead to catastrophic consequences, and of course the same is also true for submersible pumps. For this reason, we have designed our NAUTILUS submersible pumps to be especially [...]
Not surprisingly, the further development of foam compounds also affects the proportioning technology. In addition to the trend to use ever more highly concentrated foam compounds and thus to reduce the proportioning ratio, fluorine-free foam [...]
Fire fighting foam is one of the most important products in fire fighting and is used to fight class A (solids) and class B (liquids) fires. The chemical composition has some special characteristics. The so-called [...]
What does RFID technology have to do with the production of Rosenbauer HEROS helmets and an improvement in quality? And what exactly does this mean? RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a technology that allows the [...]
What does the term 'PPE Regulation' actually mean? The new Personal Protective Equipment Regulation (EU) 2016/424 replaced the previous PPE Directive 89/686/EEC from 1989 on April 21, 2018. This PPE Regulation is aimed at various [...]
Report from the IFAT 2018 Sustainability is a big concept and is becoming increasingly important in times of growing mountains of waste. About 20,000 tons of plastic waste are washed into the oceans via the [...]