From building renovation to battery cells: where ANAXA® makes the biggest difference

Construction renovation: the largest near-term opportunity

Roughly €150 billion is spent every year in Europe renovating existing buildings. Most of this stock predates current fire-safety standards. For owners and contractors, the question is rarely "should we improve fire protection", it is "can we afford to do it without rebuilding from scratch?".

ANAXA® changes this calculus. Because the molecule can be integrated into surface-applied coatings and paints, it allows a building's fire performance to be upgraded without replacing the underlying material. A wood structure becomes A2-s1,d0. A plasterboard partition gains 6× more fire resistance. An aluminium facade element holds for over an hour instead of three minutes.

• Applied by standard construction professionals, no specialised installer required.
• Compatible with both new construction and existing buildings.
• No structural modification, minimal disruption, no demolition.

For municipalities, hotel groups, hospitals, and industrial site operators facing post-Grenfell compliance pressure, this is the difference between a manageable upgrade and a multi-year renovation programme.

Battery and energy storage: solving thermal runaway

Lithium-ion batteries face a structural challenge that the industry calls thermal runaway, a chain reaction in which one overheating cell triggers neighbouring cells, propagating heat and combustion through the entire pack. The phenomenon is responsible for the most serious failures in EVs, grid-scale storage, and consumer electronics.

The standard mitigation is to insert thermal barriers between cells or modules. The challenge is that every gram of barrier material reduces the energy density of the battery, and every millimetre of thickness reduces the volumetric efficiency. Engineers want maximum protection with minimum mass and volume.

Transport: railway, maritime, automotive

Each transport sub-sector has its own fire-protection rules, IMO standards for shipping, EN 45545 for railway, automotive-specific requirements for vehicle interiors. What they share is a growing intolerance for toxic smoke. In a confined environment such as a train carriage or a vessel cabin, smoke toxicity is the dominant cause of injury during a fire event.

ANAXA® holds an IMO certification and is being positioned for the equivalent rail and aviation standards (UL, CE, FAA). For interior panels, seating frames, cable trays, and engine compartments, the combination of high mechanical performance with zero toxic emissions is increasingly a procurement requirement.

Data centers: protecting infrastructure that cannot afford downtime

A fire in a data center is not just a safety incident, it is a multi-million-euro outage. The growth of cloud and AI workloads has dramatically increased rack power densities, and with it the heat load that must be managed. Fire-protection systems for data centers increasingly need to combine thermal protection with non-conductive, non-corrosive properties.

ANAXA® can be integrated into wall, floor, and rack-enclosure materials, providing thermal protection that does not interfere with the dense electrical infrastructure and does not generate the corrosive fumes that legacy halogenated solutions can produce when activated near sensitive equipment.

Industrial composites and high-safety environments

Beyond the named sectors above, ANAXA® has applications in oil and gas (pipelines, processing equipment), aerospace (composite panels, interior components), and high-safety environments including military and protective equipment. In all of these, the same logic applies: the customer needs proven fire performance combined with the absence of toxic emissions, and increasingly within a halogen-free regulatory framework.

The licensing model in practice

Across all of these sectors, Neolido operates a pure licensing and royalty model. Manufacturing licensees across Europe, the Middle East and South Asia integrate ANAXA® into their own products under a recurring royalty on the resulting end-product revenue. This keeps Neolido capital-light, allows rapid geographic expansion, and ensures that the local industrial expertise of each licensee is leveraged in the application that best suits their market.

The molecule is the same. The application is what makes it strategic for each sector. Construction needs renovation simplicity. Batteries need thinness and weight efficiency. Transport needs zero toxic smoke. ANAXA® delivers each of these from a single platform technology.