DEF
DEF contribue since 1958 to fire safety systems the technological evolution for a custom-made answer. Our mission is design, initiate and make durable in tima all your fire detection projects. Smoke detector, heat detector, flame detector ... Addressable and conventional fire detection systems. We reconcile experience and hight technologies to build solution and services for you.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Fire Safety
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1958
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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Introduction
This is what I am proud of ...
DEF is not just another company.
Since its foundation, more than 50 years ago, DEF has been focusing on its core business: fire safety.
Year after year, our company has developed innovative technological solutions so as to meet customers’ requirements for the most demanding sectors.
In 1958, when my father, Daniel Lécuyer, founded DEF in the suburb of Paris, he already had this vision to associate services and in-house products in order to guarantee stable and secure fire protection solutions to our clients.
Today, we have a worldwide presence in the fields of fire alarm, fire extinguishing (gas or water mist), public evacuation and safety supervision.
In each of our subsidiaries, a team of experts will handle your fire safety projects with products designed and manufactured by DEF, while providing a local support for long lasting solutions.
We have strong references in the most demanding sectors and our ambition is to grow worldwide, while keeping customers’ proximity and innovation as the two drivers of our company.
Profile
DEF: a fire safety solutions and services maker
Added value and flexibility
Endowed with its own French production sites, experts in research and development, product specialists and professional teams, our company provides added value in assistance and advice.
Based on a fire risk analysis, we propose the most relevant offer of solutions and services in terms of safety.
Our flexibility provides the customization of services according to customer needs, providing professionals (designers, installers, end users, business and service providers) a suitable response to all fire security problems.
More than a confidence partner
Besides putting at service of customer high quality products, DEF offers its experience .
In each phase of the project we help you in identifying needs and in defining appropriate solutions, owning all the skills and certifications needed ensuring the installation, commissioning, systems maintenance and reconditioning of the detectors.
The strength of an independent European partner
DEF, whose headquarters are based in Paris, has many production plants located in all over in the world.
Tied to favour a truly close relationship with its customers, the company has developed a sales network throughout France and since 1976 continues a process of regular international growth.
An international experience
Our presence in more than 30 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia allow us managing all different problems.
By this intersection of experiences, we continually enrich our offer.
History
In the last 50 years ...
... DEF has continuously grown till to become, today, between the most important fire safety international actors. The company is directed by Philippe Lecuyer, son of the founder Daniel Lecuyer.
DEF (Détection Electronique Française) was born in 1958
During the 70's
DEF was interested in a real industrial growth
The ICs introduction allows DEF improving her technologies and gain access to first important realisations.
During the 80's
The company continues its expansion becoming the first French constructor in fire detection.
A new electronic component appears: the microprocessor. DEF introduces the addressable systems, that became the standard in fire detection.
During the 90's
DEF was recognized as a group leader in high technology application.
The interactive Vega products, rich in new functions in maintenance field, cause to the company a international scope.
Today ...
DEF confirms its image of solution and services constructor in fire safety systems.
Present in more important European and International sites, the company claim a double competence:
>a industrial group recognized for its excellence.
>a preferred partner for professionals in fire safety, due to its complete offer in customized services.
Innovation
DEF, vocation to innovate
The 'Savoir-Faire' forerunners
Here are the fifty years in which DEF has put its energy at the service of innovation. Our technological discoveries marks the history of fire safety.
Future maker
Careful to scientific changes and marketing needs, our engineers and technicians conceive new products to improve integration of new technologies.
Furthermore, cause the long term in a project design, we keep the compatibility of our system from generation to generation, assuring the eternity of installation.
Values
People, the core of company success
The company success is based on the respect of human values that move our people everyday in their relationships with customers, partners and themselves.
The spirit of progress
Inventiveness and innovation are the drives of our dynamism.
The spirit of service
Totally, 450 women and men share the same ambition: pay attention, suggest and help our customers so that their success be our success.
The professional spirit
It's for our skill, our quality exigence and the respect of our engagements that we gain and keep our customer trust.
Solutions
Your solution by our solutions
DEF vocation it to contribute individually to technologies evolution in Fire Safety Systems.
Further on its historical role of constructor, DEF is able to propose flexible and personalized solutions, starting from the design until the maintenance.
Due to our own production sites, people skilled in R&D, product specialists and professional teams, we help you to construct together the proper answer to your questions.
Control and Indicating Equipment(CIE)
Electrical automatic Control and Delay devices (ECD) Special Risks solutions
Control and Indicating Equipment
The fire detection system is our core business.
The detailed knowledge of fire dynamic, DEF develops different point technologies to prevent the fire start in the minimum delay.
Hereafter fire phenomena, DEF has a complete range of panels to match the environmental constraints of the concerned site (design, installation, maintenance and management).
You dispose of best technologies: conventional, addressable and interactive.
Automatic extinguishing system
The choice and installation of an automatic extinguishing system requires specific knowledge to find solutions for special risks of concerned sites.
DEF is the experience of product and norms specialists to help you in all your projects.
We dispose of a complete range of extinguishing solutions:
- Water spray solution
- Neutral gaswith Definert
- Chemical gas with FE13
- Foam
- Dust
Special risks solutions
Our mission is to propose a complete special risk offer.
We enrich our solutions with many innovations and technologies to answer to special applications:
- ICPE
- Atex
- Special conditions ( humidity, dusty rooms, etc.)
Services
Global approach, for customized services
DEF would provide the best help in installation, start-up, and maintenance projects of Fire Safety Systems. We commit ourselves to give you a customized and rigorous performance, in order to adapt to your projects exigences.
All the entities component DEF are certified in accordance with ISO 9001 version 2000.
This quality assurance implements an objective: our customer satisfaction.
Our quality approach is based on three principles:
- very skilled people,
- use of media adapted to any project,
- a spirit oriented to service. We adapt our offer so that we'll be your privileged partner in all services.
Installation and start-up
Installation and start-up of a Fire Safety System needs technical, normative and regulatory in-depth know-how, in order to assure a very high level in performance and reliability.
Our engineers and technicians team gather the best conditions to realise a rapid installation and start-up.
Maintenance
The value of your patrimony is its eternity.
To become your partner in maintenance and propose you a customized offer, DEF rely on its affection to understand your exigences and specific constraints.
- You have a partner advising you,
- You gain in specific maintenance know-how,
- You benefit form our service transparence,
- You trust in results.
Return and reconditioning
Since 1996, DEF assures the performances of reconditioned detectors as per the new ones. Our know-how include the reconditioning of all the detection technologies: optical flame, optical smoke and heat.