Finds applications where electrical integrity of the cable has to remain intact for at
least three hour, so as to activate and maintain crucial functions such as fire fighting,
public announcements, smoke extraction systems, sprinklers, emergency lighting,
evacuation path lighting systems etc.
The areas for fire Survival cable applications include places where large number of
people congregate for short or limited period of time such as shopping malls, cinema
theaters, educational institutions, airport terminals, mass transit systems (metro rail
network), high rise office buildings atc. FR cables also find use in power generation
facilities, petrochemical complexes, nuclear power facilities, mines atc. For phased
shut down of the plant and to keep critical functions like communication, rescue and
evacuation systems functional during a fire.