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Find Focus with Hellberg’s range of all-new specialist safety glasses and goggles.

Renowned for its hi-spec PPE that includes advanced hearing protection products, face protection and communication solutions, Hellberg Safety is launching a new range safety eyewear.

With a wide range of street-smart styles, from basic to premium - the new range ensures a consistently clear line of sight and safe vision for professional tradesmen and women wherever they’re working on site.

A Superior Range of Hi Vis Protective Wear – for all kinds of light conditions.

Snickers Workwear takes personal wellbeing at work very seriously. That’s why this range of Hi-Vis protective wear is streets ahead of anything else.

With updated styles and designs added to the extensive range of Jackets, Trousers, Shorts, Toolvests, Shirts and Fleeces for men and women, there’s a host of garments in the range to satisfy the specific requirements of Classes 1, 2 and 3 protection levels.

With manufacturing and service industries under pressure to reduce carbon emissions, as part of the government’s ‘Net Zero’ roadmap, leading industrial compressor brand, ALUP, has launched an upgraded range of oil-injected air compressors, which have a significantly lower environmental footprint.

ALUP’s innovative Sonetto models feature a revamped air end element, which facilitates a market-leading increase of 15% in Free Air Delivery (FAD) output and a reduction in energy consumption on selected models of up to 12%. 

At the same time, its development of a full range of options allows the compressor to operate on a low duty cycle typically seen on piston machines, where the demand for air is intermittent. The combination of an anti-condensation oil heater, tropical thermostat and a larger 500-litre air receiver thereby allows the unit to operate on very low duty cycles and also avoids the issue of condensation forming within the oil. 

Hart Doors has recently installed a pair of its high-speed Speedor Storm doors at a major manufacturing/recycling plant in the Midlands. The plant, which annually supplies over 275,000 tonnes of polythene products, also recycles over 95,000 tonnes of UK waste from industrial, commercial, agricultural and domestic sources.

“Together with the latest Speedor Storms we have nearly 30 Speedors on site,” says Melanie Rosby, marketing manager, Hart Doors. “The doors are a crucial part of an objective to improve energy efficiency, maintain a better working environment and temperatures within the building as well as reducing vermin access.”

A&S International is excited to be developing their global distributor network for their MAK CHEM range of maintenance chemicals.

During the past 12 months they have been offering these innovative, environmentally friendly maintenance solutions to their worldwide distributor network as well as starting to develop a UK direct client base. Sales of these new industrial degreasing & cleaning solutions steadily grew during the second half of 2020 despite the limiting business conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Particular success has already been enjoyed by the MAK CHEM brand in Greece, Philippines, Portugal & the UK with new distributors also now starting in Indonesia, Nigeria & Taiwan. The majority of the maintenance chemicals can be easily & effectively demonstrated to clients in the workshop; however, due to the current inability to visit industrial sites in many countries, a range of demonstration videos are available on the corporate websites & social media.

Always looking to introduce innovative products to make life easier for professional tradespeople, leading brand C.K Tools is set to launch its new Rescue Nut & Bolt Extractor Set (T4360), a handy solution that quickly and efficiently removes broken/damaged nuts, bolts and fasteners. 

The new Rescue Nut & Bolt Extractor Set joins the already popular Damaged Screw Remover Set, to enhance the expanding C.K Rescue range of products.  Designed to alleviate what can be an arduous, time consuming process, the new Rescue Nut & Bolt Extractor Set is set to be a winner for those whose work relies upon quality tools to get the job done.

Particularly suited for use in CIP (cleaning-in-place) applications in the food and beverage industries, the new LDL201 conductivity sensors from ifm electronic have a 77mm long sensing tip which makes them versatile and easy to install in a variety of hygienic process connections. In addition, the tip features solid PEEK construction which virtually eliminates the risk of breakage even if the sensor is subjected to high levels of stress.

Typical applications for the new LDL201 sensors include monitoring/control of cleaning agents, checking rinse water for residues and product validation. Since the sensors allow improved process control to be achieved, they typically enable users to cut costs by reducing energy usage during CIP cycles, along with the consumption of water and cleaning agents.

Solid Gear’s latest safety shoe – combines the best in safety and sports footwear technology.

The New Revolution 2 is more than just a market-leading safety trainer. It combines the BOA fastening system for maximum comfort and fit with a full E-TPU midsole with ‘bounce back’ technology to help reduce foot fatigue. 

The shoe’s stretchable mesh upper with lightweight CORDURA® and recycled material technology is water-resistant with amazing performance when it comes to breathability and flexibility. What’s more, it has a sole that’s oil and slip-resistant and a composite midsole for soft nail protection.

On April 14 2021, Markus Ferber, Member of the European Parliament, invited to the Lunch Talk. Participants were representatives of innovative companies from the administrative district of Bavarian Swabia, including Volker Seitz from the e-mobility specialist Quantron AG. Due to the current pandemic, the meeting took place as a video conference.

The exchange was themed: “Digital, innovative and still lost in the EU jungle”. MEP Ferber opened the expert exchange with an insight into the work and decision-making processes in the European Parliament as well as the cooperation with the European Commission. The main part of the expert talk was a lively exchange of information between the participating company representatives and Ferber as well as Peter Martin from the European Commission, who also attended the conference. 

They join Snickers Workwear in Europe’s market-leading portfolio of Protective Wear and PPE brands.

The Hultafors Group has completed the acquisition of the Fristads, Kansas and Leijona protective wear brands following approval by the relevant competition authorities. 

Peter Dumigan, managing director of the Hultafors Group UK, says, ‘All three are well-known brands in professional workwear with well-established market positions in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and will complement the Snickers Workwear brand throughout the European market very well indeed’.