Assembly your sustainability and security obligations is a difficult stability – ProGARM’s new sustainable arc flash protecting clothes vary helps you do each.
We’re recognized for being arc flash specialists. And in a world-first we’ve launched a spread which appears to be like and, crucially, performs, similar to our common arc flash clothes, however with a number of key variations making it a really sustainable choice.
After intensive analysis and growth working with cloth specialists throughout Europe, ProGARM’s new vary options the utmost quantity of recycled content material attainable whereas nonetheless creating a material and clothes that meet the stringent security requirements required for arc flash safety. It makes use of 20% recycled cloth content material, taken from off-cuts from making ProGARM’s common vary – the primary arc flash vary on the earth to realize this.
The primary to make use of recycled content material in arc flash PPE
Till now it’s been troublesome to make use of recycled content material in life-saving PPE clothes due to the necessity to assure safety and perceive the origin of any recycled materials. Utilizing off-cuts from ProGARM’s personal manufacturing and placing them again into the manufacturing course of removes query marks over high quality and safety ranges of different recycled content material which can have suffered degradation to the safety it affords.
Utilizing this unworn cloth permits this vary to have some recycled content material and the identical life-saving safety.
Different sustainable options embrace:
- Sustainable, carbon impartial packaging, made out of a plant-based polymer which is a waste product from the sugar trade
- Manufactured in mainland Europe and transported by sea and land in consolidated masses. No ProGARM product travels greater than 1900 miles to succeed in its UK vacation spot (as much as 60% lower than different suppliers), with deliveries rigorously deliberate to minimise mileage, lowering the variety of deliveries by 10% in 2021/22
All of this helps organisations in minimising their affect, contributing to reaching their sustainability objectives.
Assembly excessive requirements – the sustainable arc flash protecting clothes vary
5 coveralls, one jacket, and 4 pairs of trousers in males’s and girls’s cuts make up the brand new vary. Out there in three colourways – together with high-vis yellow, navy blue, and a mixture of navy and high-vis yellow – the vary has been designed to supply the preferred and helpful clothes for anybody requiring arc flash safety, whereas passing all related exams and requirements.
The vary is licensed for requirements protecting arc flash (APC1, ELIM 8cal), flame resistance (EN11612, A1 + A2), welding (EN11611), anti-static (EN1149-5), and excessive visibility. So it not solely performs the way in which different arc flash clothes do, however has materially much less affect.
The arc flash safety is inherent, which means it could actually’t be washed out and serving to the workwear present safety for longer.
ProGARM, famend for making protecting workwear which lasts as much as 70% longer than the trade common, is the primary firm to launch a licensed arc flash vary containing recycled cloth.
Our different arc flash sustainability initiatives
The brand new vary comes after ProGARM created the primary restore programme for arc flash PPE in 2021, which helps with sustainability by making minor repairs to garment elements corresponding to zips and fastenings to increase the lifetime of the clothes. With arc flash clothes, even a small rip which occurs through the rigorous workday of the wearer would imply it now not provided the life-saving safety wanted, and would imply it needed to be thrown away. The mixture of ProGARM’s deal with sturdiness and the choice for small repairs to fastenings means their vary can last as long as 70% longer than competitor choices.
The corporate has additionally partnered with a number one textile recycler to supply end-of-life recycling for all its merchandise to allow them to be recycled, ensuring ProGARM merchandise don’t develop into a part of the 350,000 tonnes of textile waste ship to landfill within the UK yearly.
ProGARM goals to be carbon impartial all through all its operations and the entire provide chain (scopes 1, 2 and three) by the top of 2025.
View the sustainable assortment
The brand new vary might be obtainable through distributors from November 2022. For extra particulars, give our crew of specialists a name on +44 (0) 1482 679600 or e mail data@progarmcurrent.wpengine.com.
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