Kraft & Bauer whose fire-fighting systems protect more grinding machines than any others will be exhibiting at Grindtec on stand 1017 in hall 1.
Many of the worlds leading OEMs of grinding machines fit Kraft & Bauer fire systems including Rollomatic, Walter, Tschudin, and Bahmuller with several thousand systems being sold every year.
Kraft & Bauer UK supplies major machine tool manufacturers and distributors with these fire protection systems and also offers a full retrofit and service support facility for its UK customers from its base in Coventry with the same day availability of all parts being guaranteed. It also offers a same day/next day exchange for discharged/out of date CO² and Argon gas bottles.
All end users of grinding machines are warned to check to ensure that the mandatory annual servicing of their machine tool fire systems has been carried out and that service certificates/date stamps are kept to ensure compliance with insurance companies and health and safety regulations. Service checks must be carried out by a trained and certificated Kraft & Bauer engineer and records kept accordingly.
Kraft & Bauer UK will be present at the Grindtec show to meet UK engineers to discuss fire protection for machines of all kinds. Whilst grinding machines are a major application, many more systems are fitted to leading turning machines such as those manufactured by Index, Traub and Tornos.
Kraft & Bauer UK also install on many Laser machines manufactured by companies such as Sauer DMG and CyanTec
Any machine considered a fire risk that uses oil, or any kind of potentially flammable liquid, such as an oil based coolant, or produces a spark or similar such as an EDM machine or a Laser machine needs to have fire protection as does any machine that although being used “dry” (without coolant) is machining a self-combustible material such as titanium or magnesium alloys.
Additional information on fire detection and extinguishing systems for machine tools and the legal responsibilities of manufacturers and end users is available from Kraft & Bauer UK’s website.
