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Kidde Aerospace and Defense (KAD), is a business unit of Hamilton Sundstrand, a United Technologies Corporation company, that is responsible for fire protection and safety systems for commercial and military aviation and for commercial and military ground vehicle applications.

The KAD group comprises of seven companies:
  • Kidde Aerospace, located in Wilson, North Carolina, USA
  • Fenwal Safety Systems, located in Wilson, NC, USA
  • Kidde Graviner, located in Colnbrook, England
  • L'Hotellier, located in Antony, France
  • Kidde-Deugra, located in Ratingen, Germany
  • Kidde Aerospace & Defense-Australia, located in Melbourne
  • Kidde Dual Spectrum, located in Goleta, California, USA

KAD, headquartered at Kidde Aerospace (KA) in Wilson, is the world's leading supplier of fire protection and safety systems products for civilian and military aircraft.

For 90 years, the company has defined the meaning of "state-of-the-art" in fire protection and safety systems through advances in detection, suppression, inerting and other protection technologies. KAD provide protection for every potentially hazardous area of today's modern aircraft.

In addition to an outstanding design and production team, the KAD team provide the most complete array of protection and safety products backed by years of field experience. The only source for total aircraft fire protection.

Fire/smoke detection and extinguishing products
KAD produces a wide range of products and services within the area of aeronautical fire detection and extinguishing. These products include aircraft cargo compartment fire detection/suppression, powerplant fire detection/extinguishing, APU fire detection/extinguishing, cabin and lavatory fire protection systems.

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Kidde Aerospace / Fenwal Safety Systems

Wilson, North Carolina USA
www.kiddeaerospace.com
Kidde Aerospace (KA), located in Wilson, North Carolina, is the world's leading supplier of fire protection products for civilian and military aircraft. For 90 years, the company has defined the meaning of "state-of-the-art" in fire protection through advances in detection, suppression, inerting and other protection technologies. KA provides protection for every potentially hazardous area of today's modern aircraft. KA provides, in addition to an outstanding design and production team, the most complete array of protection products backed by years of field experience. The only source for total aircraft fire protection.
Every second of every day, FENWAL's Safety Systems are protecting people's lives both in the air and on the ground. On the ground, industrial processes worldwide are protected from the risk of devastating gas and dust explosions by FENWAL Safety Systems' Explosion Protection Systems. In the air, much of the world's fleet of jet aircraft are equipped with overheat controls manufactured by FENWAL Safety Systems.
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Kidde Dual Spectrum

Goleta, California USA
www.safebus.com - For all Commercial Fire Suppression requirements
www.dualspectrum.com - For all Military Fire Suppression requirements
Kidde dual spectrum is the leading manufacturer of fire and explosion suppression equipment (AFES), to the US Military and its Allies, worldwide. For over 40 years, Kidde Dual Spectrum has led the industry in fire protection and explosion suppression technologies. Building upon our commercial transit-bus products, we developed systems for the armored vehicle community and since the late 1960’s, we’ve endeavored to exceed expectations. Today, we’re original equipment on multiple tracked and armored vehicle programs, as well as tactical wheeled and route clearance vehicle programs, MRAPs, armored personnel carriers and many other combat vehicles in support of US Army TACOM, MARCORSYSCOM and other Allied vehicle programs throughout the world.
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L'Hotellier

Paris, France
www.lhotellier.net
L'HOTELLIER is part of the aerospace and defence sector of KIDDE plc whose main companies are : Kidde Aerospace (USA), Kidde Graviner (England), Fenwal (USA), Kidde Dual Spectrum (USA). Resulting from the merger of KIDDE DEXAERO (specialist in fire detection and extinction) and Louis L'HOTELLIER SA (specialist in aeronautical fire detection), the company L'HOTELLIER offers a wide range of products and services, including definition of the needs, control of the different phases, engineering and production. Our products are designed to meet our customers specific requirements.
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Kidde Graviner Ltd

Colnbrook, United Kingdom
www.kiddegraviner.com
Kidde Graviner manufactures and supplies a full range of high technology fire detection and suppression systems and life safety equipment for the protection of civil and military aircraft and military vehicles. The product range also includes cargo compartment fire protection systems for Class D to C conversions, aircraft detection and reporting systems and safety and arming technology. The company operates a comprehensive product support facility backed by a 24-hour aircraft-on-ground (AOG) facility. Use of SPEC 2000 and the world wide SITA network provide the benefits of rapid, accurate and effective interchange of procurement information. Kidde Graviner also operate a Halon recycling and banking facility which offers users of installed Halon 1301 and 1211 equipment the opportunity to maintain continued support for their fire extinguishing systems.
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Kidde-Deugra GmbH

Ratingen (Dusseldorf), Germany
www.kidde-deugra.com
Kidde-Deugra has been the leading European supplier of reliable, quality fire and explosion protection products for a wide range of vehicles for over 50 years. Applications include military, transit bus, rail, construction, off-road, and mining vehicles plus VIP and racing sport automobiles. Technologies and products originally developed to protect armored military vehicles have been successfully commercialized for a wide variety of vehicle applications. Quality products are designed, manufactured and supported from a convenient location next to the Dusseldorf airport. Kidde-Deugra’s management systems are certified to ISO 9001 (Quality Management), 14001 (Environmental Management) and OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System).
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Kidde Aerospace and Fenwal Safety Systems
4200 Airport Drive NW
Wilson NC 27896
Tel (252) 237-7004
Fax (252) 246-7181

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