SolidDrops supplies and installs two Synergy fire suppression systems in Saudi Arabia: the UL Listed wet-chemical Kitchen Fire Suppression System for hoods, appliances and ducts, and the LPCB-approved Firessense direct low-pressure clean-agent system for electrical panels and enclosures. Neither needs external power to discharge.
A fire suppression system is a fixed installation that detects a fire at a defined hazard and discharges an extinguishing agent onto it automatically, without waiting for someone to reach an extinguisher. In Arabic specifications it usually appears as نظام إطفاء الحريق التلقائي. The right system depends on what is burning: hot cooking oil in a kitchen hood behaves nothing like an overheating busbar inside a switchgear panel, and each needs a different agent, a different detector and a different discharge path.
Kitchens · Wet chemical
For restaurants, hotel kitchens, hospital and central kitchens, food courts and cloud kitchens. It protects the cooking appliances, the hood plenum and the exhaust duct as one design, and shuts off the fuel at the same moment it discharges.
Panels · Clean agent
For switchgear and control panels, data and telecom cabinets, UPS, generator and transformer enclosures, CNC machines and lab cabinets. It protects the inside of the enclosure where a fault starts, not the whole room.
Both systems are manufactured by Swastik Synergy Engineering Pvt. Ltd. at Khopoli near Mumbai; the company holds ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 and is CCOE (PESO) approved for filling and storing clean agent gases. SolidDrops is the supplier and installer in Saudi Arabia. Every figure below comes from the manufacturer’s product data.
| Property | Synergy Kitchen System | Synergy Firessense |
|---|---|---|
| Protected hazard | Cooking appliances, hood plenum and exhaust duct | Inside of an electrical or equipment enclosure |
| Agent | Low-pH wet chemical, light brown liquid, SG 1.02–1.05 g/cm³ | FK-5-1-12 or HFC-227ea (NFPA 2001 clean agents) |
| Approval | UL Listed; developed to NFPA and UL standards | LPCB approved; LPS 1666 certified |
| Design basis | NFPA and UL standards | NFPA 2001, LPS 1666, NBC 2016 |
| Detection | Fixed-temperature fusible links on tensioned wire, plus manual pull station | Fire detection tube routed through the enclosure |
| Actuation & power | Mechanical, via CO2 cartridge; no external power | Stored pressure 15 bar at 21 °C; no external power |
| Cylinders | 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 L, K-class stainless steel | 1 kg (Ø85 × 255 mm), 2 kg (Ø110 × 300 mm), 4 kg (Ø140 × 400 mm) |
| Temperature | Agent freeze point −7 °C | Rated −20 °C to +60 °C |
| Interlocks | Fan stop, gas or electrical cut-off, optional gas shut-off valve, audio-visual alarm | Pressure switch to monitoring panel |
| After discharge | Soap-like foam layer on the hot grease; no toxic vapours | No residue; non-toxic on discharge |
A kitchen hood fire suppression system is a pre-piped wet-chemical system that discharges over the cooking line and into the hood and duct the moment a fusible link melts. Grease fires are the reason it exists. Water on burning oil throws the fire out of the pan, a dry-powder extinguisher knocks the flame down without cooling the oil, and a fryer that has been running through lunch service can re-ignite minutes after the visible flame is gone.
The Synergy system is designed around that behaviour. Its nozzles are positioned for each appliance, for the plenum behind the filters and for the exhaust duct, because a hood fire rarely stays on the cooktop: burning grease is drawn up through the filters into the duct, where it is hardest to reach by hand. The wet chemical cools the oil and lays a soap-like blanket on the surface, a reaction known as saponification, which is what stops re-ignition.
Everything is mechanical. Detection, actuation and discharge do not depend on mains power, so a fire that trips the kitchen’s electrical supply cannot stop the system from working.
A complete Synergy kitchen installation is built from ten components. Knowing them helps when you compare quotations: an offer that lists a cylinder and nozzles but leaves out the gas shut-off valve or the pull station is not the same system.
Eight cylinder sizes, from 9 to 30 litres, let the agent quantity match the cooking line rather than rounding up to the next big tank. The size and the number of cylinders depend on how many appliances sit under the hood, what type they are, and the length of hood and duct the nozzles must cover. We calculate it from your appliance schedule during design, which is why a list of the appliances is the most useful thing you can send with an enquiry.
Firessense is a direct low-pressure system: a heat-sensitive detection tube is routed through the hottest parts of the enclosure, close to the busbars, breakers or drives most likely to fail. A fire at any point on the tube makes it burst at that spot, and the agent discharges from the cylinder straight through the opening into the enclosure. In a direct system the tube is both the detector and the discharge point, so there are no separate nozzles to position and no external power or control panel needed to fire it.
The agent is either FK-5-1-12 or HFC-227ea. HFC-227ea is the clean agent widely known by the trade name FM-200, which is why consultants often specify panel protection as “FM-200 type”. Both are electrically non-conductive, leave no residue on circuit boards and are non-toxic on discharge, so equipment can be inspected and returned to service without a clean-up of powder or water.
The cylinder is sized to the internal volume and layout of each enclosure from the manufacturer’s design data; that is why we ask for panel dimensions before we quote. A pressure switch reports the discharge to a monitoring panel, and the system is rated for −20 °C to +60 °C, which matters inside sealed panels in a Riyadh or Dammam summer. We check the internal ambient of the enclosure before installation.
Also in the installation: the cylinder valve, mounting bracket, tee and in-line connectors, and the end-of-line plug with Schrader valve used to check the tube pressure.
The kitchen system covers any commercial cooking line under a hood: restaurants and cafés, hotel and banqueting kitchens, hospital and university kitchens, central production kitchens, food courts and cloud kitchens. Firessense covers the ten enclosure types the manufacturer lists, shown below.
Most kitchen and panel fires are not dramatic events. They start from conditions that build up quietly over months, which is why automatic protection at the source matters more than an extinguisher on the wall.
Hotel and restaurant kitchens in Makkah and Madinah run at very high cooking volumes during Hajj and Ramadan, and data and power rooms across the Kingdom carry their heaviest cooling load through the summer. Plan installations and service visits before those peaks, not during them.
On Saudi projects the fire suppression submittal is reviewed by the project consultant and, through the building’s fire safety approval, by the General Directorate of Civil Defense (المديرية العامة للدفاع المدني) under the Saudi Fire Code, SBC 801. Approval moves faster when the listing and design documents match the exact configuration being installed, so we prepare the submittal around your drawings rather than sending a generic brochure.
UL listing documentation for the Synergy Kitchen Fire Suppression System, the cylinder and nozzle layout for your appliance schedule, interlock wiring for gas and fan shut-down, and the component data sheets.
LPCB approval and LPS 1666 certification evidence, the cylinder selection for each enclosure volume, detection tube routing, and the pressure-switch and monitoring interface.
The commissioning record, as-installed layout, operating instructions for kitchen or facilities staff, and the service requirements for the installed configuration.
For kitchen ventilation and grease-duct design, NFPA 96 is the usual reference for the wider project team. Where your consultant names a specific edition or local requirement, send it with the enquiry and we will check the offered system against it before quoting.
Kitchen work is usually planned around trading hours and a gas shutdown window; panel work around a power shutdown. The sequence is the same for both.
A suppression system only works if it is still matched to the hazard it was designed for. NFPA 96 calls for commercial-kitchen fire-extinguishing systems to be serviced by trained, qualified people at least every six months, and the Synergy manuals set the detailed checks and replacement intervals for each component. Panels change too: added breakers, new cable entries or a door left open change the enclosure the Firessense cylinder was sized for.
After any discharge, the system is out of service until it is recharged. That means cleaning the agent from the cooking line, refilling or replacing the cylinder, replacing the fusible links and cartridge on a kitchen system or the detection tube on Firessense, and recording the return to service. Cooking should not restart under an unprotected hood.
There is no honest single price for a fire suppression system, because the cylinder is only one line of the quotation. A kitchen with a single 3-metre hood over two fryers needs a very different system from a hotel kitchen with a chargrill line and a long duct run, and a single control panel is a different job from a row of twelve. What we can tell you is what moves the number, so you can compare quotations on the same basis:
| Cost driver | Kitchen system | Firessense panel system |
|---|---|---|
| Size of the hazard | Number and type of appliances, hood length, duct length | Internal volume of each enclosure, number of enclosures |
| Equipment | Cylinder size (9–30 L) and count, nozzles, fusible links | Cylinder size (1, 2 or 4 kg) per enclosure, tube length |
| Interlocks | Gas shut-off valve, fan stop, alarm wiring | Pressure switch and monitoring panel connection |
| Site work | New build or retrofit over a working kitchen; access and shutdown window | Panel shutdown window, access inside live switch rooms |
| Documentation | Consultant submittal, commissioning record, handover and the agreed service plan | |
When you compare two offers, check that both cover the same appliances or enclosures, name the manufacturer and approval, and state whether installation, interlocks, commissioning and transport are included. The cheapest quotation is often the one that left the gas shut-off valve out.
Our base is in the Western Region and we take survey and installation work across the Kingdom. Send the city and a photo; we will tell you the survey date and lead time for that location. The phone line is answered 24/7.
SolidDrops supplies and installs two Synergy systems: the UL Listed wet-chemical Kitchen Fire Suppression System for commercial hoods, appliances and ducts, and the LPCB-approved Firessense direct low-pressure clean-agent system for electrical panels and equipment enclosures. We do not supply room-flooding, sprinkler or CO2 systems.
The price depends on the number and type of appliances, the hood and duct length, the cylinder size between 9 and 30 litres, the gas and fan interlocks, and whether the kitchen is new or already operating. Send the appliance list and a photo of the hood on WhatsApp and we will quote for that specific kitchen.
Yes. The Synergy Kitchen Fire Suppression System is a UL Listed wet-chemical system developed to NFPA and UL standards. We provide the manufacturer’s UL documentation with the submittal so your consultant and the approving authority can check it against the installed configuration.
Firessense uses either FK-5-1-12 or HFC-227ea. HFC-227ea is the clean agent widely sold under the FM-200 trade name. Both are NFPA 2001 clean agents, are non-conductive, leave no residue and are non-toxic on discharge, which is why they suit live electrical panels and electronics.
Yes. The kitchen system actuates mechanically through fusible links and a CO2 cartridge, and Firessense discharges from its own stored pressure when the detection tube bursts. Neither depends on external power, so a fire that knocks out the electrical supply cannot stop the discharge.
Yes. We survey the existing hood, appliances and duct, then plan the installation around your opening hours and a gas shutdown window. Send photos of the hood, the appliance line and any existing system labels so we can see what has to change.
NFPA 96 calls for commercial-kitchen fire-extinguishing systems to be serviced by trained, qualified people at least every six months. The Synergy manuals set the detailed checks and component replacement intervals. The system should also be reviewed whenever an appliance is moved, added or replaced.
The system is out of service until it is recharged. The agent is cleaned from the cooking line, the cylinder is refilled or replaced, the fusible links and cartridge are replaced on a kitchen system or the detection tube on Firessense, and the return to service is recorded. Do not restart cooking under an unprotected hood.
The Synergy agent is a low-pH wet chemical that gives off no toxic vapours on discharge. Staff should still leave the kitchen when the alarm sounds, because the fire itself produces smoke and heat, and the cooking line must be cleaned before it is used again.
No. Firessense protects the inside of each enclosure where the detection tube runs. Room-level detection and protection are designed separately as part of the building’s fire strategy. Many projects use Firessense for the critical panels alongside the room’s fire alarm system.
Start with three things: the city, whether it is a kitchen hood or an electrical panel, and a photograph. For kitchens add the appliance list and hood length; for panels add the enclosure dimensions and how many there are. Drawings and a BOQ help but are not needed to start.
We survey and install across the Kingdom, including Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam and Khobar, Jubail, Makkah, Madinah and Tabuk. Send your city with the enquiry and we will confirm the survey date and lead time.
City, hazard type and one photograph are enough to start. Add the appliance list, panel sizes, drawings or BOQ when you have them.
Reviewed by the SolidDrops technical team · Last updated 22 October 2026 · Technical data and product photographs from Swastik Synergy Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
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