Fire incidents involving flammable liquids have historically resulted in dire consequences. Incidents can occur in aircraft hangars, shipboard spaces, flammable liquids fueling facilities, large fuel storage tanks and so forth requires Class B firefighting foams as the primary agents used for the vapor suppression and extinguishment of flammable liquid fires in both manual and fixed system applications. Firefighting foams form a film and/or a blanket of bubbles on the surface of flammable liquids and prevent the fuel vapors and oxygen from interacting and creating a flammable mixture.

For decades, aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF, has been the gold standard for extinguishing dangerous liquid fuel fires. Now, with AFFF being rapidly phased out and new firefighting foams being developed, the fire protection world braces for new-generation foams, a fluorine-free foam concentrates.