Preventing fatal injuries
as a
result of serious falls from
height has been RidgeGear's
key objective since its
formation in 1998.
With its key manufacturing
operation in Leek,
Staffordshire, RidgeGear is
ideally positioned to serve the
European industrial safety
market place quickly and
efficiently with the products
that your company needs now.
RidgeGear benefits from the
70 years of collective
expertise and experience of
the Unitex Group of
Companies. Pioneers of the
car seat belt and the one
piece woven airbag, Unitex
has been at the forefront of
technological developments
that quite simply have
changed peoples' lives and
saved countless others.
Why are ridge gear
unique?
RidgeGear is supported by
Marling Leek, Europe's market
leader in narrow fabric
production, the innovation and
design that was used to
produce the automotive seat
belt and one piece woven
airbag. All this knowledge has
been combined to help
develop and manufacture our
technical webbing range.
Combined with our advanced
production methods,
engineering processes and
testing procedures, our height
safety products are truly
unique and simply the best.
What do we control?
Weaving
We take high tenacity
multi-
filament polyester yarns and
weave them on site on state
of the art high tech
machinery. The product at
this stage is white and tested
to destuction to ensure its
fitness for purpose. During
the weaving, the product is
vigorously tested by
dedicated operators working
to a carefully designed
specification.
Dyeing
We take our loom-state
webbing and treat it down a
state of the art continuous
piece dye machine. The dyes
are used to produce a colour-
fast product and are tested
and inspected continuously
throughout the process. The
dyes are specialist disperse
dyes used in similar
processes such as the
automotive industry and in
the production of life saving
products such as the seat
belt.
Quality Control
Our continuous and
rigorous
testing does not stop there.
We know this is a life saving
product and testing is
continued yet again, even
after the production process is
complete. The webbing will
only be released for one of
our products when it passes
all the demanding tests of our
height safety.
RidgeGear offers a complete
solution for customers, with
tailored systems designed to
meet individual customer
needs.
Our product portfolio is
manufactured and tested
within an ISO9001
environment.
The latest Computer Aided
Design techniques, coupled
with the development of
prototypes through the use of
rapid prototyping methods,
means that RidgeGear is able
to combine new designs with
tried and tested components.
This benefits the end user
with improved functionality
and the knowledge that
RidgeGear's products give
absolute security.
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