About FSI

Flame Security International (FSI) traces its origins back to 2006 in Sweden. FSI’s Swedish shareholders originally developed and sold a flame retarded textile product to IKEA in Älmhult to protect carpets and textile wall hangings in its show rooms.

A version of this textile product was also used to protect the huge straw Gavle Goat from multiple arson attempts during this famous annual Christmas festival held in central Gävle, Sweden.

During 2017, the Australian founders of FSI joined with the Swedish founders to create a new business headquartered at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. UNSW and FSI has since established a substantial R&D team dedicated to a wide range of fire detection, suppression and protection products. This team has since re-engineered and improved upon the original Swedish products using world class PhD chemists and chemical engineers. This has been made possible by FSI’s investors who are principally Swedish, American and Australian sophisticated investors.

In addition to FSI’s investors, FSI and UNSW are working with State Governments, other research organisations in Sweden and Australia as well as range of industry partners, manufacturers and distributors to invent and commercialise fire detection and protection products and services.  Some of these organisations can be seen here on the Australian Government CRC Project Selection Round Outcomes web page.