Hochiki Europe Strengthens Fire Safety across Bulgaria
From a vast logistics warehouse in Radinovo to a 60,000 sqm mixed-use tower in the heart of Sofia, Hochiki Europe's intelligent fire detection systems are protecting some of Bulgaria's most ambitious and complex buildings.
Two recently completed installations, delivered by long-standing Hochiki partners MCM Engineering and Sectron, demonstrate how Hochiki's flexible product range can be tailored to meet the demands of vastly different environments, from high-density racking warehouses to luxury residential towers with underground car parks.
At the Bultex 99 logistics centre in Radinovo, a 270,000 square foot facility storing large volumes of flammable clothing materials, MCM Engineering installed 350 ESP intelligent devices alongside Hochiki's 6-loop Latitude fire control panel. A particular challenge was protecting the site's dense racking storage systems, solved through the strategic deployment of Hochiki's Fire Beam Xtra addressable beam smoke detectors, carefully positioned along warehouse corridors to achieve full coverage without false alarms.
"Hochiki's ESP open protocol gives us the flexibility when dealing with such a large and complex facility, Bultex 99 now have a centralised system that is simple to monitor and designed to support future expansion." Georgi Georgiev, MCM Engineering
In Sofia, Sectron faced an even greater scale of challenge at Smart Tower, a development combining 30 floors of luxury apartments with 12 levels of commercial space and a four-storey underground car park, with an estimated occupancy of 2,552. Over 10,000 Hochiki devices were installed across the two connected buildings, combining the ESP addressable range for commercial areas, the Conventional CDX range for individual apartments, and Hochiki's Linear Heat Detection Cable in the basement car park where exhaust fumes made conventional smoke detection unsuitable.
"Hochiki's multiple solutions made overcoming the challenges with Smart Tower's infrastructure straightforward. The open-protocol capabilities provided ultimate flexibility when integrating multiple, tailored solutions across the building." Elena Pencheva, Design Engineer, Sectron
Both projects reflect a broader trend across the Eastern European market — experienced installers choosing Hochiki not just for product quality, but for the long-term reliability, open-protocol flexibility and compliance assurance that underpins every installation.
