Cascina, PISA, June 2019. SAFire is pleased to announce that Linde Engineering Dresden, Linde AG, Engineering Division has awarded SAFire for the engineering, design, manufacturing, testing, inspection of deluge skids needed at the Inter Pipeline’s Polypropylene plant in Canada.

The water spray system and the foam system packages for the protection of the process area (compressors, extruders, recovery units, hot air units and peroxide room), will be completely engineered and designed as well as fabricated and tested by the SAFire SPN factory in Messina whereas project management will instead be located at SAFire PSA in Cascina (PISA). The deluge skids will be designed for low temperature installation such as those of the cold winter climates expected in Alberta, Canada.

This project is the second awarded by Linde Dresden to SAFire which comes just after the conclusion of the La Porte polypropylene project in Texas, USA and reconfirms the confidence Linde Engineering is developing in SAFire’s as trusted partner in fire protection solutions for chemical processes.

SA Fire Protection is an Italian independent engineering & manufacturing company active in the field of Fire Protection with more than 40 years of experience. The company is organised into three major business units: Fire Protection Engineering, Fire Product Manufacturing and Services.

Linde Engineering. There are only a handful of companies with the detailed know-how needed to successfully deliver turnkey industrial plants worldwide. Linde Engineering is a pioneer in the development of customised process solutions. Linde Engineering holds around 1,000 process patents and are constantly developing new processes to increase the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and sustainability of their customers‘operations. 

Inter Pipeline is a major petroleum transportation, storage and natural gas liquids processing business based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They own and operate four business segments operating in western Canada and Europe. Their pipeline systems span over 7,800 kilometres in length and transport over 1.4 million barrels per day (b/d). Inter Pipeline operate 23 strategically located petroleum and petrochemical storage terminals in Europe, which have a combined storage capacity of approximately 37 million barrels. Their NGL business is one of the largest in Canada, processing an average of 3.3 bcf/d in 2018, with the capacity to produce over 240,000 b/d of NGL