This year‘s IND EX® Explosion Safety Session at Powtech India in Mumbai focussed on Decoupling interconnected Equipment in order to avoid Flame and Pressure Propagation.
The IND EX® e.V. association, which is headquartered in Germany, was represented with two top-class events in Barcelona and Shanghai.
Richard Siwek, CTO of FireEX Consulting Switzerland, presented IND EX®'s latest achievement at EXPOQUIMIA in Barcelona: EXTOOLS®Pro, a PC software which not only consolidates the knowledge from several specialist publications, but also provides important cross-referencing information for the design of protection concepts. For example, how does the Kst value change when the process temperature increases?
Snapshots taken at the IND EX® Seminar on industrial Explosion Protection in Chemical Industries during EXPOQUIMIA 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.
On the 10th and 11th of May, more than 80 participants from the fields of fire and explosion safety met at the 3rd German Fire and Explosion Safety Congress in the Congress Center Westfalenhallen in Dortmund.
With its 4th Edition of the Safety Congress for Industrial Explosion Protection, Frankfurt based Association IND EX® has set the bar even higher.This unparalleled Event combined both, top ranked Speakers and EXperts plus a World Premiere in Live Demonstration: Austria`s Hoerbiger and Germany`s REMBE joint forces and showed more than 350 interested Viewers what it means to be safe with Explosions. During the Live Demonstrations outside Hall 3 of the leading Powder & Bulk Show POWTECH, both corporations carried out breathtaking Experiments with Combustible Dust whilst remaining cool despite all that furious flames and bangs. Dr. Rob Lade and Roland Bunse were driving the crowds mad when igniting only grams of corn starch but creating huge fire balls and pressure blasts.
Another complete success: At the 2nd German Fire and Explosion Safety Congress the participants even visited the “Umweltwache” (Environmental Guard) and Airport 21. On November 4th and 5th, the IND EX® congress for experts in the fields of fire and explosion safety took place again in the Westfalenhallen exhibition centre in Dortmund. Participants were informed about the latest products, applications, experience and research results in these fields within the scope of different lectures.
The recently inaugarated ultra-modern Expoforum in St. Petersburg Russia opened Doors when EasyFairs Solids Tradeshow and IND EX® Fire- and Explosion Protection Conference knocked.
On May 6,2015, the IND EX® e.V. conducted an exciting afternoon session on safety measures regarding industrial explosions. The meeting point was the EasyFairs bulk material fair in Basel.
The First German Fire Protection Congress in Dortmund from May 21st to 22nd, 2014 was a complete success. The exciting mix of technically and scientifically high-grade lectures, experiments and live explosion demonstrations was daring, but the intended results were attained.
IND EX® has carried out a remarkable seminar for the Polish Industry. On September, 26, 2013 more than 170 delegates made their way to the beautiful city of Krakau to attend this exceptional seminar.
On October the 10th, 2013 IND EX® had organized - together with German based Vogel Verlag - a special training session for Explosion Safety in parallel to the BulkSolids India.
A wide range of high calibre international delegates from the fields of science and industries benefited greatly from the 3rd IND EX® Safety Congress (ISC) on industrial explosion protection at the Nuremberg Convention Center. A total of 80 participants from North and South America, Australia and Europe met on 24th and 25th April at the congress which took part during the POWTECH exhibition. The programme featured numerous internationally renowned EXperts in explosion safety, as well as live explosion demonstrations.
This was the 3rd IND EX® Safety Symposium in China, and it was the most successful one. For the first time, we invited a local profession as a guest speaker to talk about the current development of explosion regulations in China.
German based association IND EX® and slovenian branch of Bureau Veritas carried out joined seminar called ATEX-Day in beautiful Radenci, Slovenia
The association IND EX® looks back to the 2nd IND EX® Safety Congress in Nuremberg | Germany on October 11 + 12, 2011. In parallel to the international known trade fair POWTECH took place at the Congress Center Nuremberg. We have pleasant memories at the debut of the IND EX® Safety Congress in 2010. Nobody of the organization team and the IND EX® members knew if the concept would work at all. Meanwhile the second successful congress passed, reports Stefan Penno, President of IND EX®. Meanwhile the IND EX® Safety Congress on industrial explosion protection became a vital part of the bulk material fair POWTECH. Nearly 100 EXperts from all over Europe as well as delegates from Brazil, USA, Hong Kong and Australia have been part of this year´s congress.
Stefan Penno, President of IND EX® e.V. held a stunning lecture during the iNTegrisk Conference in Stuttgart, Germany earlier this June. His presentation included Risks and Chances in regard to Dust Explosions in Industry. The audience, risk managers from all over Europe and the rest of the world, agreed that this issue, though a niche in a niche, can become pretty central and heavy in consequence within a few milliseconds.
The Bang could be smaller if you use the right protection measures and it could be nearly harmless if you use them in the right way tells Stefan Penno while showing some case studies.
During the ESMG Seminar in May 2011 in Torino, Italy IND EX®` President carried out a live Dust Explosion Experiment.
IND EX®` specialists Wilfried Henze (GreCoN), Hilmar Winkler (Kidde) and Stefan Penno (REMBE®) gave an interesting session on Elevator Explosion Protection during the recent 2011 EasyFairs Schüttgut in Dortmund, Germany.
Explosion protection EXperts of the international network IND EX® e.V. organized an event at REMBE® GMBH Safety + Control in Brilon. Members of the global active association IND EX® e.V., which include EXperts from companies such as GreCon, Kidde, DMT, KERSTING, DCM and REMBE® recently invited influential decision makers of key german insurers such as HDI-Gerling, R+V, Basler, Allianz, Aachen/Münchener and AXA to attend an explosion protection seminar at the REMBE® headquarters in Brilon on 13th January 2011.
