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FORTRESS INTERLOCKS - PROTECTING PEOPLE, PROTECTING INDUSTRY
02 December 2013
Fortress Interlocks helps customers protect their personnel and capital assets. The company has over 40 years of experience in the safety market, designing and manufacturing safety access and control systems from its headquarters in Wolverhampton, UK.
These systems create safe workplaces where employees in industrial environments are safeguarded from injury and equipment is protected from damage. A world leader in access control systems, Fortress products guarantee that actions and events are undertaken in a predetermined sequence, ensuring a safe working environment.
The company’s products are suitable for applications across a wide industrial base including power generation and distribution, steel, automotive, food and beverage, recycling, building materials, robotics and palletisers. Its extensive product offering and interlocking experience allows Fortress to provide unique solutions for all safeguarding applications. It regularly creates bespoke solutions, often by customising its standard products.
Fortress offers three kinds of standard safety product in its portfolio:
The company is based in Wolverhampton, UK. It has offices in the USA, Netherlands, China and Australia and a large global network of distributors.
Fortress is a member of the Machine Safety Alliance (www.machinery-safety-alliance.co.uk) with Festo, Pilz Automation Technology, Troax, UK Engineering, and Werma. The Machine Safety Alliance is a non-profit organisation that aims to share its collective knowledge and expertise and help companies understand and comply with safety regulations while balancing
productivity.
Fortress Interlocks is a Halma Company. Halma plc (www.halma.com) makes products for hazard detection and life protection and is a market leader in specialist electronic, safety and environmental technologies. Halma has 40 businesses in 23 countries and major operations in Europe, the USA and Asia. Halma plc is a FTSE 250 company quoted on the London Stock Exchange.
The company’s products are suitable for applications across a wide industrial base including power generation and distribution, steel, automotive, food and beverage, recycling, building materials, robotics and palletisers. Its extensive product offering and interlocking experience allows Fortress to provide unique solutions for all safeguarding applications. It regularly creates bespoke solutions, often by customising its standard products.
Fortress offers three kinds of standard safety product in its portfolio:
- amGardpro is the ultimate range of modular safety gate switch interlocks for heavy duty applications. Its unique modular construction allows easy configuration and provides total electro-mechanical safeguarding for practically any application up to SIL3 (EN/IEC 60261) Category 4 and PLe (EN/ISO 13849-1).
- mGard is the premier range of robust, modular trapped key interlocks for heavy duty applications. Trapped key interlocking is a tried and tested method of mechanically safeguarding dangerous machines and hazardous processes, and is suitable for use up to SIL 3 (EN/IEC 62061), Category 4 and PLe (EN/ISO 13849-1). It is called "Trapped Key" as it works by releasing and trapping keys in a predetermined sequence. After the control or power has been isolated, a key is released that can be used to grant access to individual or multiple doors.
- tGard offers total integration of control and safety. This is Fortress’ brand new product that is customisable as standard. Its unique design allows the configuration of safety gate switches, trapped key interlocks and machine control stations or any configuration of all three. tGard elements are housed in a metal body to create a simple and robust safety system.
The company is based in Wolverhampton, UK. It has offices in the USA, Netherlands, China and Australia and a large global network of distributors.
Fortress is a member of the Machine Safety Alliance (www.machinery-safety-alliance.co.uk) with Festo, Pilz Automation Technology, Troax, UK Engineering, and Werma. The Machine Safety Alliance is a non-profit organisation that aims to share its collective knowledge and expertise and help companies understand and comply with safety regulations while balancing
productivity.
Fortress Interlocks is a Halma Company. Halma plc (www.halma.com) makes products for hazard detection and life protection and is a market leader in specialist electronic, safety and environmental technologies. Halma has 40 businesses in 23 countries and major operations in Europe, the USA and Asia. Halma plc is a FTSE 250 company quoted on the London Stock Exchange.
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