Milestones

Acquisition of own office space in St. Petersburg and organization of a separate entrance at 65A, Serdobolskaya Street.

Start of a series of design and installation works at Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill OJSC "Svetogorsk (International Paper).

Acquisition of production premises in the settlement of Fornosovo (Tosno district, Leningrad region).

Certification and start of production of control units

Beginning of the installation and maintenance of the fire protection system in the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg.                                                        

Launching of production of the programmable complex of technical means PKTS "Olymp".                                                                                                           

The first patent No. 80345 "Sprinkler with monitoring of activation" was received.       

Start of production of IRIDA-GEFEST visual alarm.

Introduction of the first fire resistant cable line "Gefest".

Carrying out commissioning and start of maintenance of the oil terminal "RPK-Vysotsk-Lukoil-II".                    

Commencement of work on fire safety, including supply of equipment, "Inmarko" Ltd. (ice cream factory) in Tula. 

Gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev for the great contribution to the reconstruction, restoration and technical equipment of the "State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia".

Gefest Group becomes a collective member of the non-profit partnership National Academy of Fire Safety Sciences (NANPB).

Installation and commissioning of the fire protection system at Varandey oil terminal.

First presentation of "Aqua-Gefest" sprinklers with electrical activation at the international symposium "Tunnel Safety System -ISTSS" in New York, USA.

Design of the engineering systems of the G.A. Tovstonogov Theater in St. Petersburg.

Report of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gefest Group L.T. Tanklevskiy on sprinklers with electrical activation at the 13th international scientific conference on fire-fighting and technologies INTERFLAM held at the Royal Holloway University in London (Great Britain).

Gefest started commissioning of fire safety systems at Ust-Luga Commercial Seaport (Ust-Luga):   "Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) transshipment complex" for OAO Sibur-Portenergo; "Stable gas condensate and refined products transshipment and fractionation complex" for OJSC NOVATEK; "Liquid cargo complex" for Ust-Luga Oil.

Opening of the Fire Safety Department at the Institute of Military and Technical Education and Security at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University. This is the basic department of the company.

Presentation of the draft standard for sprinklers with electrical activation and monitoring of activation sprinklers by L. Tanklevskiy, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gefest Enterprise group at the international ISO meeting in Berlin, Germany.

Gefest started construction of a new production building at FNPP Gefest.

Beginning of cooperation with JOB GmbH and E-Sprinkler OY, which became a part of Gefest Enterprise group and became our subsidiary in Finland.

Participation in FIRE INDIA 2015 in New Delhi, India.

Participation in INTERSCHUTZ 2015 in Hannover, Germany.

Decision to develop ISO standard for sprinklers with electrical activation and monitoring of activation at ISO/TC 21 in Kobe, Japan. Kobe, Japan

Receiving of European patent "Electrically controlled sprinkler".

Beginning of cooperation with FM global in certification of Aqua-Gefest sprinklers.

GorPozhBeszopasnost became a part of Gefest Enterprise group: now, it is company's trade representative office in Moscow.

Participation in FinnSec exhibition in Helsinki (Finland)

Participation in ISO TC21 SC5 meeting and inclusion of information on sprinklers with electrical activation and control of activation into ISO 6182-1 “Consolidated sprinkler standard”, Berlin (Germany)

Received certificate for autonomous gas fire-fighting devices"AMFE "JOB" manufactured by "JOB".

Start-up of a 24-hour production line for sprinkler components.

Participation in IFSEC International Security Exhibition in London (UK).

Participation in SKYDD International Fire Exhibition in Stockholm (Sweden).

Participation in ISO TC21 SC5 meeting. Northbrook (USA).

Organization of Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Fire and explosion safety" (ANO "Fire and explosion safety").

Obtained a certificate for explosion-proof installation boxes "Gefest".

Organization of the Group of Companies "Gefest" together with the St. Petersburg Polytechnical University named after Peter the Great. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University to a large-scale International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards 2019 (ISFEH 2019).

Organization by Gefest Group of Companies of the 42nd plenary meeting of Technical Committee 21 "Technical means of fire alarm and firefighting" of the International Organization for Standardization ISO in St. Petersburg Received a certificate for the sprinklers of increased capacity "Aqua-Gefest"

Participation in the International Exhibition "China Fire" in Beijing (China)

Issuing a patent for the invention "Device for concealed installation of sprinklers".

Certification of the high-pressure sprinkler fire extinguishing unit TRV VD.

Obtaining European VDE certificate for the JBG "Gefest" fire box.

Gefest Enterprise group launches production of ESFR sprinklers.

The Russian government award in the field of science and technology in 2020 to several employees of Gefest Enterprise Group.