In any infrastructure, safety features designed to mitigate loss of human life and damage to property are not just required by regulations worldwide, but represent the gold standard in construction. Preventing or limiting the effects of fire is a key consideration in building construction.

Safety measures can detect or suppress fires - e.g. fire alarm systems, sprinklers etc., or contain and slow the spread of fires – e.g. by reducing flame spread, heat release, flaming droplets, smoke and gas emission. Cables play an important part in it. In fact, cables are critical. Despite the fact that they are less flammable than other building materials, electrical circuits connect each part of a building and therefore can hasten the spread of a fire.

Customer Challenges:

Fire outbreaks are one of the main challenges that a building owner faced. According to BASEC, one of the primary causes of fire outbreaks are electrical distribution systems failures. Cables which have a lower safety standard may ignite fire and cause them to spread quickly, generating toxic smokes and gases.

Opaque smoke caused by fire can affect visibility thus restricting the evacuation process. Besides that, inhalation of excess toxic gases found within smoke is the leading cause of casualties.

The performance of cables in a fire is critical to the safety engineering of many buildings.

 

XD Solutions: Fire Performance Cables

Prysmian Group has been manufacturing the widest range of industry-leading Fire Performance cables, known as MAX FOH™ in ASEAN, for over twenty years.

MAX-FOH cables are specially designed to facilitate a quick and orderly evacuation of the building occupants in the event of an emergency. Purpose-designed to maintain circuit integrity within a system of critical safety devices from emergency power supply to fire alarms, MAX-FOH cables are a vital component of building safety. The special characteristics of the MAX-FOH range make it suitable for an almost infinite number of applications and environments.

 

Benefits

MAX-FOH cable with enhanced fire resistance properties have guaranteed the performance and consistency of the products. It comes with improved safety and compliance with the most stringent standard to minimize the risk of fire.

MAX-FOH cable with no cutting corners can improve the quality of the conductors, insulation and sheathing.

MAX-FOH comes with multi-layered Mica tape which help to enhance fire protection as compared to single-layered Mica. It’s Low Smoke Halogen Free (LSHF) insulation material also meets industry standard for flame retardant cables.

 

PRYSMIAN DRAKA FIRE RESISTANT CABLE MAX-FOH

Prysmian Draka Fire Resistant Cable MAX-FOH is a low voltage fire performance cable at 0.6/1kv rating voltage. For use in most power and control circuits. Features XLEVA insulation for high operating temperatures, thermal short circuit rating and durability.