Posted on 07 May 2025
With budget constraints and safety requirements, our client needed a fire and gas detection layout that didn’t compromise. We cut project costs by $80K while improving coverage and simplifying installation. [...]
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Posted on 07 May 2025
Our client needed to ensure their ammonia gas detection layout matched modern standards—without a costly overhaul. Using fire and gas mapping, we revealed the gaps, optimised the coverage, and delivered a practical, effective toxic gas detection strategy. [...]
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Posted on 17 Apr 2025
Our client needed a way to alert a third-party facility during an emergency shutdown—without introducing new risks or unnecessary complexity. We delivered a clear, practical design that integrated seamlessly into the existing system, helping the project stay on track and giving the operations team confidence ahead of the shutdown deadline. [...]
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Posted on 19 Mar 2025
We’ve recently published an article in the April 2024 edition of New Zealand Engineering News. The article explores how advanced Fire & Gas Mapping techniques are transforming safety in high-risk facilities. It highlights how performance-based Fire and Gas System design methodologies, as outlined in the latest standards and guidance, are replacing outdated “rule-of-thumb” and prescriptive [...]
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Posted on 14 Jan 2025
Functional Safety adoption is made easy following this guidance on the practical application of IEC 61511 for value-driven businesses. Implementing functional safety standards like IEC 61511: Functional safety – Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector on existing facilities can significantly enhance safety, reliability, and compliance in process industries. However, businesses with existing facilities [...]
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Posted on 03 Aug 2023
We had some fun recently helping a client to successfully commission a FGD FlameSpec IR3 hydrogen flame detector (FLS-IR3-H2-HD) using our FGD FlameSpec hydrogen flame simulator. The project is located at a facility with significant hydrogen fire hazard risks and the new flame detector will improve the safety onsite providing hydrogen flame detection coverage for some [...]
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Posted on 27 May 2023
Take control of your facility’s safety and flammable gas detection efficiency with the CI Systems Limited MetCam Methane Optical Gas Imager – the most advanced tool for Methane detection in the oil, gas, energy, and process industries. Born from years of meticulous research and development, MetCam is purposefully engineered to support in maintaining a safe [...]
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Posted on 13 Mar 2023
Equinox Automation is proud to be helping build out the hydrogen industry in New Zealand with FGD FlameSpec-IR3-H2 flame detectors being shipped out to our clients. The FGD FlameSpec-IR3-H2 high performance flame detector uses improved triple IR (IR3) detection technology which is purpose built and optimised for fast detection of hydrogen, syngas, methanol and ammonia fire hazards. We [...]
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Posted on 29 Jan 2023
Equinox Automation has partnered with Danish gas detector manufacture, Geopal System A/S, to be the New Zealand distributor for their high quality European manufactured flammable and toxic gas detectors. The Geopal GP-NOVA stand-alone gas detector is the flagship model in the Geopal range. The GP-NOVA is an adaptable gas detector for detection of flammable gases [...]
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Posted on 18 Nov 2022
Summary of the FGD FlameSpec range of high quality, high performance flame detectors and fire hazard detection applications. [...]
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