Personal Protection Equipment  Manufacturers, Traders, Suppliers

• upholstered furniture
• beds and mattresses
• packaging
• construction industry
• horticulture and agriculture
• cosmetics and hygiene etc...

• Rewinding: Unwinding and rewinding max. Ø 120 cm, roll width up to 350 cm
• Cutting from 3 cm - 350 cm width, cutting from 7 mm width
• Calendering from 150 cm up to 350 cm width, upper steel roll heatable up to 260°C; printing force from 20 - 290 N
• Flexo printing process: single color up to 300 cm width, logo and full surface printing
• Bonding to wide webs up to approx. 21 m width with subsequent folding to approx. 2 m roll width and rewinding to 500 m roll length
• Rectangular cuts min. 10 x 10 cm, max. 240 x 290 cm
• format cuttings: circles, trapezoids, individual formats possible (also die-cutting)
• multiple folding of single, multiple folded, saleable packaging units made of nonwovens, fabrics or technical textiles,
• most different products can be sewn from nonwovens : bags, pouches, protective hoods (automotive), overcoats ( hygiene), nonwoven suits etc...

Please note As a rule, personal protective equipment is already prescribed from a working height of 1 m: For work in industry from 1 m height, in the craft trade from 2 m height and in the roofing trade from 3 m height. Please observe the regulations applicable to your working area (BGR 198).

The professional PPE sets offer complete equipment for many different applications. Of course, the different components of the sets are also available individually;

The Rudolf Uhlen GmbH manufactures personal protective equipment (PPE) for various applications for more than 50 years. Mr. Volker Fiedler acquired the company in 1995. Under his management the company has grown steadily from an “one-man-operation” to an enterprise with 23 employees.
A special focus of our production lies in the field of face- and eye-protection. Our standard product range covers the sectors visor carriers, head-gears, visors against mechanical and chemical impacts, gold-coated visors for IR-protection, arc-flash visors, heat-shields made of wire cloth and welding glasses.
Besides this extensive standard product range we would like to provide practical solutions for the protective requirements in special working environments. We are willing to agree to individual requests of our customers. To provide the maximum customer satisfaction we focus on two principles:
1. The quality of the products has to be right.
2. There has to be a constructive communication with the customer.

Why kneepads? Safety for all occupation
Permanent pressure on the kees appears in a lot of professions. Roofers, tilers, gardeners, interior decorators, carpenters amd especially paviours and miners work mainly on their knees.This high spot pressure on the kneecaps causes many and diverse health damages. Arthrosis, synovial bursa inflammation and meniscus injuries. A knee joint arthrosis appears 13 times more often at a permanently strained knee than at a not permanently strained one. (See: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz development report No. 362 of H. Greinemann, Dortmund 1983).
Frequently an ecomomical measurable loss of power and ability to work is the consequence. I.e. 85,4% occupational diseases of paviours are based on chronically synovial bursa inflammation caused by permanently pressure on the keecap (See: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz development report No. 248 1980). Due to illness loss of working strain the company financially and in its schedule. Knee pads decrease the risk of injuries by knee bruises, haematomas and abrasions considerable.
On a long term basis they protect the workers knees from chronically diseases and signs of wear and tear that can cause incapacity to follow one´s profession. A perfectly manufactured and especially for each branche developed knee pad increase workers efficiency by allowing to work kneeling comfortable and painless.Workers often prefer to squat down than to work in a kneeling position. But from the medical point of view this is no alternative to a knee protection because of the overstretching of the ligament.
The supporting surface and the soft embedding of the knee allocate the pressure regularly to knee cap and knee joint. This means a decreased risk of ruining the knee. To protect the workers knees is an important economical cause in your company.For decades it is the object of our efforts to develop the optimal knee pad for the different branches and strains.

• Do-It-Yourselfer
• Elbowprotectors and back support belts
• Floorlayers
• Gardeners and landscapegardeners
• Knee cushions, Honey-comb cushion
• Mining
• Paviour, roadmakers and canalworkers
• Shipbuilding
• Tilers and pavement-layers
• Tilers, slaters, painters, interial decoraters
• Welders

- Do-It-Yourselfer
- Elbowprotectors and back support belts
- Floorlayers
- Gardeners and landscapegardeners
- Knee cushions, Honey-comb cushion
- Mining
- Paviour, roadmakers and canalworkers
- Shipbuilding
- Tilers and pavement-layers
- Tilers, slaters, painters, interial decoraters
- Welders