British company Apollo Fire Detectors has a worldwide reputation
for quality and reliability. This reputation has helped it to win
the contract to supply the fire detection system for a commercial
and residential development in Changsha City, Hunan Province, which
will include a Sheraton Hotel.
The development comprises two towers with a total building area
of 87,480 square metres. The Sheraton Changsha Hotel will be the
first international 5-star hotel in Hunan Province and will offer
388 rooms and suites, as well as other luxury facilities.
This prestigious project specified Apollo's fire detectors to
meet its fire protection requirements. The intelligent fire
detection system will be based on Apollo's XP95 technology and will
include 4,102 XP95 smoke and heat detectors, 632 manual call points
and almost 2,000 interfaces, making it the largest fire detection
system that Apollo has supplied in China to date.
Other recent Apollo contracts in China include new power
stations in Ningxia Province and Inner Mongolia and an intelligent
fire detection system featuring approximately 2,650 Apollo XP95
devices for the underground parking areas that will serve the 2008
Olympic facility in Beijing.
Apollo, which is Europe's largest fire detector manufacturer,
recently signed a distribution agreement with GST (www.gst.com.cn), China's leading
provider of integrated fire detection and alarm systems. GST will
distribute Apollo's products throughout mainland China through its
extensive network of over 100 branches. The company is listed on
the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Apollo is a subsidiary company of Halma p.l.c. (www.halma.com). Halma is an
international market leader in specialist electronic, safety and
environmental technologies, with over 3000 employees and a turnover
of over $600m (2006). Halma owns 40 subsidiaries worldwide that
make products for hazard detection and life protection. These
companies are assisting China's thriving economy in areas such as
energy, water, construction, the environment and health. Halma is a
public company listed on the London Stock Exchange. It has
manufacturing facilities in China and its principal Representative
Offices are in Shanghai and Beijing.