Wood, paper & pulp

Baling presses are used in the recycling industry to compress and then bale paper and card for transportation. These machines are incredibly dangerous but access is sometimes required to clear jams and perform routine maintenance. EN 16500 and EN 16252 give safety requirements for Vertical and Horizontal Baling Presses respectively.

Fortress’ robust trapped key interlocks are an ideal and well used solution to meet the requirements of these standards and ensure the safety of operators working on these machines.

Paper manufacturing lines often cover vast spaces with long distances between control panels and access doors. This can lead to prohibitively high costs of wiring and reduction in control functionality at each access point.

Fortress offers tailored solutions for control and safe access with minimal electrical installation by having over a single industrial ethernet connection.

Frequent access to machinery in paper making is crucial during normal operation. The size of machinery and visible obstacles present inside safeguarded spaces mean operators can be hidden at times whilst performing whole body access. Inhibit functions are needed to ensure restart of machinery is not successful until operators safely leave this area.

Fortress offers tailored solutions to integrate proactive inhibit functions to prevent unexpected restart whilst performing whole body access. The Fortress safety key can be designed into all heavy duty solutions. Read the case study below to learn more.