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things up to understand the science of how flame propagates down a pipe, or what happens during this phenomenon, so that we can design products to mitigate those situations.” He adds:“ We’ ve invested heavily and bought all the land around our quarry, where we built Fike Labs. This is a 50,000 square foot test facility, where we’ re centralizing all that testing capability. We named it Fike Labs purposefully so that it would connect with the history of Fike but also showcase our investment and fly the flag as thought leaders in the industry.”
One of the latest Fike innovations is Fike Blue – a combination of fire protection and explosion protection in the lithiumion battery energy storage space. In fact, it is the first patented product worldwide to stop cascading thermal runaway.“ Fike Blue is FDA-approved and it’ s extremely environmentally safe,” highlights Brad.
“ It’ s unique and I believe it’ s going to springboard us into new opportunities around the world.” However, Brad acknowledges that Fike Blue is not a product that anyone can purchase because its safe and reliable application is reliant on the process of lithium battery testing, system design, validation and much more. Fike Labs will quadruple Fike’ s current lithium battery testing and research capabilities.“ At present, the technology is not ready to be sold as a distributed product, because every battery array is an application that needs to be proved and qualified. We must solve every battery first. They are being installed all over the world though and there is a huge opportunity for future business, not only to protect what is already there but also to learn and innovate even further.” 128