Fireye Inc. is a leading manufacturer of flame safeguard controls and burner management systems for industrial and commercial applications.

The Derry, N.H.-based company’s products can be found in a variety of steel mills, power plants, pulp and paper mills, petrochemical facilities and food-processing plants all over the world. Fireye is a part of Carrier. Its products include burner controls, flame scanners, combustion controls and spark igniters.

The IHEA member’s roots go back to the 1930s, when the company offered the first commercial/ industrial electronic flame safeguard control: a photoelectric device de-signed to detect the presence of an oil flame in less than one second. Fireye as the first company to develop infrared scanners to monitor gas and oil flames; the first to develop a scanner that discriminated between signals from adjacent burners; and the first to create a completely solid-state programming control. The company has set new standards with a microprocessor-based, auto diagnostics program that communicates in five different languages.