Reliable equipment for explosive and toxic gas detection – Gasalarm planning to switch to more attractive technology and expand to EU market

Belgrade-based company Gasalarm has been producing and maintaining explosive and toxic gas and steam detection equipment for 25 years.

Gas detection has a primary place in prevention and protection from explosions and toxic gases. Gasalarm has so far delivered around 780 gas detections systems, as well as a large number of carbon-monoxide detection devices installed in underground garages.

– Our systems are applicable wherever gas is used as a medium or is a byproduct of manufacture, and our many years of experience enable us to meet any client’s demands – says Nenad Jovanovic of Gasalarm for eKapija.

– We are active in the heavy industry, with plenty of our systems installed in Zelezara, and then also in electrical, chemical, pharmaceutical and food industry.

Gasalarm’s advantage over the competition, our interviewee adds, is local production and inexpensive maintenance (low prices), the promptness of response, availability of components and the ability to fix any malfunction with ease.

Their systems are primarily used to prevent the damage, as malfunctions can cause significant material damage and even lead to casualties. Some facilities are legally obliged to install such systems, whereas, in others, companies choose to install them on their own initiative.

– Companies in Serbia are aware of the importance of prevention – our interviewee notes and adds that, in certain cases, insurance companies require such systems and equipment to be installed before the facility can be insured.

For the time being, Jovanovic says, they are still working with the standard technology, which has proven to be very reliable and durable, such as that installed in Toplana Novi Beograd (New Belgrade Heating Plant), which has been functioning for 30 years.

– The plan is to switch to a more attractive technology by January – our interviewee announces. Another goal is to expand the market.

– We need to test the equipment using European standards and we will expand outside of Serbia once they’re adopted. The international standard should be legally adopted by the New Year, following which the institutions which will be issuing European standards certification should be accredited, and then we will slowly start heading towards Europe. At the moment, we are present in Montenegro and Macedonia, in addition to Serbia.

The gas detection program itself was formed at the Zemun Institute of Physics. Once the scope of production outgrew the capacities of the institute, the entire group involved in the activity moved to Tehnogas-Inzenjering. Through a privatization initiative, the group separated from Tehnogas and founded Gasalarm in 1991.

Novi Sad Refinery, Pancevo Refinery, Belgrade Refinery, Jugopetrol, Petrohemija and PE Beogradske Elektrane are just some of the facilities and enterprises protected by this company’s equipment.

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Gasalarm d.o.o. Beograd

NIS a.d. Petrol Rafinerija nafte Pančevo

JKP Beogradske Elektrane Beograd

HIP-Petrohemija a.d. Pančevo

Rafinerija nafte a.d. Beograd

Gasalarm

explosive and toxic gas detection equipment

explosion protection

toxic gas protection

Nenad Jovanovic

gas detection systems

carbon monoxide detection systems

Toplana Novi Beograd

Novi Sad Refinery

Pancevo Refinery

Belgrade Refinery

Tehnogas Inzenjering

gas detection