Marioff was bought by UTC and is now an American company. United Technologies Corporation
Type Public (NYSE: UTX) Industry Conglomerates Founded 1929 Headquarters Hartford, Connecticut, USA Key people Louis R. Chênevert, Chairman & CEO Products Conglomerates Revenue ▲ $59.8 billion USD (2008) Net income ▲ $4.7 billion USD (2008) Employees 223,100 (2008) Website utc.com On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, George Church <[email protected]> wrote: > Amen- > > Wonder if we'll have wireless heads in the future..... > > Seriously- MIST. Say it like "plastics" in the Graduate > (if you don't know the movie, you're not an old-timer, Mrs Robinson). > Imagine if we could do mist with small diameter pipe (1/2"?), 5 GPM flow, > once they get a nozzle/detector combo that looks acceptably esthetic, and > water damage will be minimized. In all seriousness, I believe that's the > wave of the future. Maybe Mist and nitrogen (uh-oh, patent infringement) as > a 1-2 punch. > > Other than an excuse to go to Europe when we had money, we went to > International fire spkr assoc conference to see what MIST stuff we could > learn. Marioff showed video of fire tests they ran in typical office > scenario, light hazard where we'd have installed a .1/900 with recessed > heads, and their mist controlled the fire nicely. So its on the way, and > they seem to be a decade ahead of us over there (Kudos, Stewart and Alan!). > Also in wide-spread use shipboard. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Bates Technical College Tacoma, WA Member: SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
