menu 1
menu 2
menu 3
menu 4
menu 5
menu 6
menu 7
Product Search
by Keyword
 
 
 
Company Profile & History

Do you ever pause to consider the safety of the particular environment you happen to be in? In the office, the airport, the underground station, the ship, the hotel, the cinema, or the theatre? Most probably you don’t. When you stop to think, it seems as though we are living our lives in a maze. Corridors, doors, staircases, lifts. In our daily routine it’s an easy matter to find our way around. But what if that routine is disrupted? If the light fails or if a fire breaks out, will you be able to find your way out just as easily?

Existing EXIT signs and luminous direction indicators prove to be practically useless, and soon lose their ‘visibility’. Worse still, many of them become completely invisible after a very short time. The result: total darkness.

This is the reason why YFESTOS® was developed: a revolutionary new range of safety products, with light emission properties that far outshine those of all other existing systems. These state-of-the-art products retain their luminescence for many hours. So, if fire should break out YFESTOS® will direct you to the best escape route or guide your footsteps to safer places.


Tests

The YFESTOS® range of products has been tested by an independent test laboratory to establish their useful life; the tests showed that YFESTOS® products retain their light absorption and emission properties for over twenty years. The products are able to continuously absorb and store light and emit it in darkness without light quality and intensity decreasing over time.

YFESTOS® LLL systems and pictograms are silk screen printed on aluminium. For escape routes this is the ideal material because it is heat resistant up to 600 ?C. The aluminium signs have been subjected with positive results to flame propagation tests and the University of Ghent in Belgium, and to toxicity and smoke tests at the Danish Institute for Fire Technology in Denmark.

The signs have been totally immersed in seawater, and exposed to vapour above a 5% sulphuric acid bath and above a 5% hydrochloric acid bath for four weeks without showing any degradation in light emission or surface damage.


At the moment work is going ahead fast on a new test environment for Yfestos products to study the behaviour of escaping persons.

Certificates

Under the name YFESTOS® a broad range of product are marketed. The products contribute to even more safety by visualising the way out in darkness. YFESTOS® products fulfil the highest standards and are certified by

  • American Bureau of Shipping
  • Bureau Veritas
  • Det Norske Veritas
  • Germanischer Lloyd
  • Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
  • Registro Italiano Navale