A scalable fire detection solution from Bosch keeps an ever-expanding tire plant reliably secure in Romania

During its 25 years of activity, Continental Tires Timisoara has produced and delivered 300 million tires to its customers globally. The company produces a wide range of tires in line with market requirements, including Ultra High Performance (UHP) tires, innovative tires for electric cars, as well as tires for light commercial vehicles (VAN).

Fire detection on such a huge premises must be of a consistently exceptional standard to keep all employees safe and to protect valuable equipment, large volumes of resources and stored finished products.

The ESH Manager and her team, considered several solutions and spoke with system integrators and Bosch partners Loznianu Bogdan of Elkotech, based in Bucharest, and Raoul Florea, Managing Director of Atlantis Security in Timisoara. These conversations led to consultation with local Bosch sales representative, Alex Ene, who then involved Iliya Dochev, Regional Solutions Consultant for Bosch Security and Safety Systems. Iliya outlined the latest Bosch technologies which could address the scale of the Continental premises and future growth of the site. He says, “The solution which helped address our customer’s requirements is the Building Integration System (BIS) which allows the possibility to control, integrate and manage the fire alarm system, together with other systems, using one single platform.” Once all parties had agreed on the Bosch BIS management software as a basis, the system integrators could begin their vital work.

All fire safety components are connected on the plant. This currently includes 66 loops with 17 AVENAR 8000 fire alarm panels, 3,500 AVENAR 4000 detectors, intrusion alarms and manual call points among other modules. As the whole system is fully scalable, backwards and forwards compatible, site extensions and refits will not interrupt fire detection. The intelligent signal processing in the modern AVENAR detectors also help reduce false alarm events which is a significant benefit for such a plant with pressure to deliver bulk volumes of innovative products by tight deadlines.

The team at Continental Tires Timisoara is very satisfied with the advice they received and the project stakeholders’ choice of products and solutions to their challenges in fire detection coverage. Fire safety across the whole manufacturing site has elevated to a whole new level: The efficient, reliable and scalable fire detection system can now be seamlessly extended and adapted with every new premises expansion!