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The polystyrene panels used in external walls developed a lot of smoke. 22 THE MAGAZINE Company director Gerard Wagemakers said: “If it had not been for the Paroc partition we would have been out of business. We need to keep our promised delivery times and we were able to continue with half a factory. After three days we could deliver again.” Fire Fighter Schrijen: “ It is difficult to go in when you know that the external walls are polystyrene panels. You can’t see the fire right away because it proceeds in the combustible panel core. The fire finally stopped by the Paroc wall” Dalco Foods fire destroyed half of the factory: “If it had not been for the Paroc partition wall we would have been out of business.” Dalco Foods is a supplier of meat products with a factory in the middle of the small Dutch town of Oss. Its business depends on reliable deliveries to high profile clients in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. As the Dutch building regulations requires, the building was divided in two by a fire proof partition, in this case Paroc Panels, set within an external wall of polystyrene panels. One Sunday in May a fire broke out – believed to be arson – in pallets of inflammable material close to the external wall. In the space of two hours one end of the building was completely destroyed: the other half of the building was saved by the Paroc fire wall. This was the 5th similar fire in the five first months of 2000 in the Netherlands.
Protection of life and property: Dalco Foods fire lessons learned: • Build more fire partitions • Better alarm plans • Training of staff in case of fire • Lucky that fire occurred on a Sunday The damage was assessed at Euro 21,000,000, and Dalco are limiting the business risk in the future by rebuilding using the Paroc Panel System AND by dividing the factory into three parts, exceeding the local requirements. The insurance company is pushing hard to rebuild quickly, and the new building is programmed to complete by the end of November 2000. The opposite side of the Paroc partition wall after the fire. The 8.8 metre high partition wall made of Paroc Panels prevented the fire from spreading to the other end of the building. THE MAGAZINE 23
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