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Dual-purpose column
protectors
 Tim
Boothby, Project Engineer for KraftMaid Cabinetry, began equipping
KraftMaid plants with the Column Sentry in 1998.
“Before we used Column
Sentry protectors, our columns were vulnerable to heavy lift truck
traffic,” Boothby explains, “A tow motor or lift truck can do quite a
bit of damage unless column protectors are used.”
However, he adds, “Fire
codes for this size of facility require us to have fire extinguishers
posted at several columns that we also want to protect from collisions.
We wondered if we could combine the two somehow.”
 Boothby
approached Sentry Protection Products for a fire extinguisher-ready
version of the Column Sentry protector already used in KraftMaid plants.
Sentry responded with a new product, the Column Sentry FE, bright red
column protector with a cutout designed to cradle a fire extinguisher.
 “Now, the bright red Column
Sentry FE has a cutout that allows us to put the fire extinguishers
inside it; and we continue to use the original bright yellow Column
Sentry on columns that do not require a fire extinguisher,” Boothby
says. “The red color column protectors make the fire extinguishers easy
to spot in case of a fire. With Column Sentry FE, we are able to keep
our facility up to code and also get the collision protection we need.”
To learn more about the
Column Sentry system, contact Jim Ryan at Sentry Protection Products;
888-265-8660. Item
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This article appeared in the
August/September 2007 issue of MRO Today magazine.
Copyright 2007.
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