JZsafe supplies machine guarding and safety fencing in Romania as the authorised distributor of POR METAL, a manufacturer of modular mesh-panel guarding, industrial safety doors, interlocking devices, impact barriers and industrial railings. This page is written for plant managers, integrators and procurement teams of foreign-owned factories in Romania who need a local machine guarding supplier that works in English, ships from stock or within weeks, and delivers documentation that fits an EU technical file: declarations of conformity, impact test reports, EN ISO 13857 safety distance calculations and installation instructions. It covers what EU and Romanian law require, the POR METAL systems available, robot protection systems with interlocked doors, safety distances in practice and how a typical project runs from floor plan to installed fence.
Machine guarding is the set of guards and protective devices that keep people away from the hazardous zones of a machine while it runs: fixed and movable guards (fences, enclosures, doors), interlocking devices and sensitive protective equipment such as light curtains and laser scanners. In the EU, the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, replaced by the Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, obliges the manufacturer of a machine or the integrator of an assembly (a robot cell, a line) to eliminate risks by design and, where that is not possible, to fit guards. In Romania the directive is transposed by HG 1029/2008, while HG 1146/2006 (the Romanian transposition of the Work Equipment Directive) obliges every employer to keep guards on the hazardous zones of all work equipment, whatever its age, and to check them periodically. The harmonised standards that describe a compliant fence are EN ISO 14120 for guards, EN ISO 13857 for safety distances, EN ISO 14119 for interlocking devices, EN ISO 13849-1 for the performance level of safety functions and EN ISO 10218 for industrial robots. Romanian labour inspectors (ITM) check compliance with HG 1146/2006 on existing equipment and the CE declaration and technical file on new machines and cells.
The core range is modular welded-mesh safety fencing with steel frames: the BLB system, 2200 mm high, impact tested at 2107 J, is the standard machine safety fence for CNC peripherals, presses, injection moulding machines, packaging lines and robot cells; BLB-YG is the high-security version tested at 6000 J for robots handling heavy parts; BLB-N has adjustable feet for uneven floors; LB-N and LB-PS are the lighter economy frames; CVB uses a finer mesh for mounting close to the hazard. The EKO family (BT, DT-C) is frameless welded mesh clamped directly to posts, cut on site, for long perimeters and zone segregation. Solid-panel enclosures (SSKF fixed, MSKF mobile) use sheet steel, perforated steel, polycarbonate or acrylic where chips, coolant, welding spatter or noise must be contained; complete welding cells are available for robotic MIG/MAG, TIG and laser welding. Aluminium Sigma-profile fencing covers lightweight, non-magnetic and reconfigurable applications, and stainless steel fencing covers food and pharma. All systems share the same posts, doors, locks and accessories, so one project can mix mesh, solid and transparent panels on a single line of posts.
A robot protection system in the sense of EN ISO 10218-2 is the perimeter guarding of the robot's restricted space plus the access control on every opening. POR METAL supplies it as a kit: BLB or BLB-YG panels and posts, hinged doors (BVK mounted directly on the fence posts, K/B with its own frame) for operator access, sliding doors without floor rail (OR-RLM30, YR, KT) for forklift and material access, folding Y-Ray doors for tight layouts, and the MGB safety interlock with guard locking, category 4 PL e to EN ISO 13849-1, with request-to-enter, escape release from inside and reset contact. Where the risk assessment allows a non-locking device, doors are prepared for RFID-coded non-contact safety sensors (type 4 to EN ISO 14119) or for the interlock switches specified by the integrator, including Pilz or Schmersal devices, using adapter plates. Pallet and conveyor openings are handled with mesh tunnels or with light curtains and muting to EN ISO 13855. The same components cover palletisers, robotic welding cells, automated assembly lines and partially fenced cobot stations where the collaborative application cannot be validated for the whole cycle under ISO/TS 15066.
EN ISO 13857 links three numbers: the height of the hazard zone, the height of the fence and the horizontal distance between them. For high-risk zones, protective structures below 1400 mm are not used without additional measures, and from 2000 mm upwards the required distance drops sharply, which is why the POR METAL standard height for machine guarding is 2200 mm; the 1200 mm fence is for zone segregation, not for preventing reach over the top. Reaching through the mesh is governed by the opening size: the smaller the mesh, the closer the fence can stand to the hazard, and the gap between the floor and the bottom edge of the panel is treated as an opening as well. The POR METAL technical office checks these distances on the layout before quoting and states the resulting minimum distances in the offer, so the integrator can enter them in the risk assessment. Impact resistance (2107 J for BLB, 6000 J for BLB-YG) is documented with test reports under the pendulum test method of EN ISO 14120.
Send the floor plan or cell layout (DWG, or PDF with dimensions), the robot reach or machine envelope, the position and width of doors, the type of floor and any interlocking requirements from the risk assessment. Within 24-48 hours you receive a layout proposal with the bill of materials (panels, posts, doors, interlocks, floor fixings, accessories) and a quote in English. Standard BLB and LB items ship from the buffer stock in Ramnicu Valcea or within 2-4 weeks from the factory; solid-panel cells, special dimensions and MGB integration on the customer's control scheme take 5-7 weeks. Installation can be done by your maintenance team with standard tools using the supplied instructions, by the integrator, or by JZsafe crews; wiring of interlocks into the machine safety circuit and functional validation are done by the integrator's electrician, and JZsafe provides the test protocol. Documentation (declarations of conformity, technical data sheets, impact test reports, installation instructions) is delivered with the goods in English or Romanian. We ship anywhere in Romania and across the EU.
POR METAL manufactures in Turkey to EN ISO 14120 with CE documentation and impact testing, at a cost level that lets Romanian plants fence complete lines rather than single cells. JZsafe adds the local layer that foreign-owned factories usually miss with direct imports: a Romanian legal entity for invoicing, a technical office that speaks the language of HG 1146/2006 and ITM inspections, buffer stock in the country, installation crews, spare parts and modifications when the layout changes. For groups that standardised on Swedish, Italian or German guarding brands in other plants, we provide side-by-side specifications for the equivalent POR METAL configuration (height, mesh size, joules, doors, interlocks) so procurement can compare on specification rather than on brand. Prices are quoted per project, not per running metre, because doors, interlocks and floor fixings drive the cost more than the panels.
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Send us your floor plan, risk assessment or technical specs. We reply in 24-48h with a detailed quote in English, with safety distance calculation (where applicable) and configuration proposal. We ship across the EU.
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