Press Releases

ESS Safeforce Buys Over 250 Crowcon Portable Gas Monitors
ESS Safeforce, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of hire safety equipment, has recently added over 250 Crowcon gas detectors to its existing hire fleet.� The purchase included 60 Detective Plus transportable gas monitors, bringing the total Detective Plus hire fleet to over 200 units. In addition, the company added a further 150 Triple Plus [...]

Crowcon?s Equipment On-Call to Alert Own Workers to CO Danger
Fixed and portable gas detectors protect personnel After a recent CO leak at an Erlanger, Ky. office complex, building management did not have to look far to find a gas detection solution, turning to one of the building?s tenants, gas detection specialist Crowcon.� To provide early warning of any future leaks, Eikon portable personal detectors and [...]

New Infrared Gas Detector For LPG Gas Hazards
The Xgard IR LPG from Crowcon is a new, low cost infrared (IR) fixed gas detector designed to detect LPG* gas hazards before concentrations reach flammable levels. Typical environments requiring LPG monitoring include petroleum refineries, manufacturing processes, vehicle filling stations and buildings that use LPG as their main gas supply. Conventional LPG detectors based on catalytic [...]

Gas Detection Specialist Crowcon Appoints New Managing Director
Crowcon Detection Instruments has appointed Warren Rees as its new Managing Director. Prior to taking over at Crowcon Warren was Managing Director of Fire Fighting Enterprises (FFE) for four years. Also a Halma company, FFE specialises in infrared optical beam smoke detectors. During his tenure with FFE Warren led the company through a period of significant [...]

Avery Weigh-Tronix Chooses Crowcon Gas Detectors To Protect Weighbridge Service Engineers
Crowcon has supplied over 60 of its ATEX-approved Tetra portable gas detectors to Avery Weigh-Tronix for detecting dangerous gases in pit-mounted weighbridges. Avery Weigh-Tronix is the UK’s largest supplier of weighbridges, many of which are mounted over enclosed pits containing load cells. These load cells require regular service and maintenance, which involves a technician physically entering [...]

Crowcon Highly Commended At Innovation And Design Excellence Awards
Gas detection specialist Crowcon Detection Instruments was highly commended at this year’s Innovation Design and Excellence Awards, held recently at London’s Hilton Hotel on Park Lane. The Oxfordshire-based company was highly commended in the ‘Design Cycle Time Reduction’ award, just missing out on the top prize. The judges recognised Crowcon’s expertise in integrating raw sensing technology [...]

New Infrared Flammable & CO2 Gas Sensor Detects Hazards Where Conventional Sensors Fail
The Xgard IR from Crowcon is a new, low cost infrared (IR) flammable gas and carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor designed for use in fixed point detection systems where conventional detectors can prove unreliable or suffer from interference and damage. Conventional flammable gas detectors based on catalytic pellistors are susceptible to poisoning in some industrial atmospheres. This [...]

Crowcon?s Triple Plus+ Portable Gas Detector More Versatile Than Ever
Crowcon has added more features to its Triple Plus+ portable gas detector, making it even more versatile than ever. Favoured by the construction and oil and gas industries because of its toughness, and with around 100,000 units in use worldwide, the Triple Plus+ is arguably the world’s most popular full function multi-gas gas detector. The device, [...]

New Addressable Gas Detector Makes Car Parks Safer While Reducing Energy Costs And False Alarms
The new Crowcon Hydra addressable gas detection system provides a novel way of detecting toxic gases from vehicle exhausts, such as Carbon Monoxide (CO), oxides of Nitrogen (NO/NO2) and petrol vapour, in enclosed or underground car parks. Many car parks run ventilator fans continuously, but this is very inefficient and energy intensive. The Crowcon Hydra offers [...]

Toxic And Flammable Gases Easily Monitored
Toxic or flammable gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and methane can be easily monitored from multiple locations with Crowcon’s new PGSi Programmable Monitoring System. Monitoring up to four different gases at once, from up to 32 individual sampling points, the PGSi is ideal for applications such as carbon monoxide monitoring in car parks and [...]