Welcome To Ballyclare

Ballyclare Limited is one of the UK's leading suppliers of protective clothing, industrial workwear, waterproof, high visibility, flame retardant and arc protection garments. We have built our reputation on providing high performance protective clothing for use in industrial sectors, the emergency service and MOD. Our aim is to guarantee complete confidence throughout every organisation using our clothing, ensuring specifiers are as comfortable with their decision as end-users are with our garments. See how we can help you.

About Ballyclare

Ballyclare is a designer and manufacturer of protective clothing and industrial workwear has been supplying customers with a comprehensive range of firefighter clothing, industrial workwear, high visibility and waterproof garments for over twenty five years.

We are a trusted supplier of specialist protective clothing to the emergency services and armed forces as well as supplying managed services encompassing garment supply, leasing, repair and laundering.

By combining our knowledge and experience garnered across these differing sectors, you can trust us to offer you the best protective clothing available – whether it's for just one jacket or to equip your entire workforce.

Please take a look at why we think we're special.

Why Choose Us

For over 25 years we have built a reputation on providing high performance protective clothing.

By combining our knowledge and experience garnered across these differing sectors, you can trust us to offer you the best protective clothing available – whether it's for just one jacket or to equip your entire workforce.

Our aim is to guarantee complete confidence throughout every organisation using our clothing, ensuring specifiers are as comfortable with their decision as end-users are with our garments.

Our Market Sectors

Ballyclare Limited has been in the business of supplying protective clothing for a very long time. But that doesn't mean we are fixed to tried-and-tested methods. We are constantly looking for newer, smarter ways to keep the people who use our clothing cooler in the heat, warmer in the cold and safer in hazardous conditions. We supply products and services to a wide variety of customers in many different market sectors including rail, industry, automotive, the emergency services and the armed forces. We manufacture high quality polycotton workwear all the way up to highly technical and complex flying garments for pilots and firefighter protective clothing. But our customers all have one thing in common: they trust us to protect their employees no matter what the weather or environmental conditions they face.

Automotive

Some of the biggest names in the truck and automotive industry including Iveco, Mercedes-Benz and BMW look to Ballyclare Limited for excellence and value for money for their technician clothing.

By researching their requirements and liaising with purchasers and end-users we have developed protective garments that meet their specifications down to the ground, delivering what they need, when they need it.

Clothing that makes a statement about them, their brand and – we believe – about Ballyclare Limited too.

Fire

Passion. Commitment. Expertise. - Qualities that make Ballyclare Limited the number one choice in the firefighting sector.

When lives are on the line, second best simply won't do. We work closely with industry experts and fire and rescue services themselves to create tough, safe, comfortable garments designed for maximum protection and maximum manoeuvrability.

From structural firefighting to USAR, technical rescue, wildland, High Volume Pump and line rescue situations, Ballyclare offers a comprehensive range to ensure firefighters stay safe, comfortable and protected.

We protect over 20,000 firefighters in the UK, including Scotland, the North East and West, Wales, the South East and Eastern Services, as well as Leicester, Oxfordshire and North Yorkshire fire and rescue services.

Industrial

Research and innovation means Ballyclare Limited stands out above all others in the industrial market. We believe our products are market leaders because we care about those that rely on our equipment.

Protective clothing is often as much about design as it is safety and it is our perfect marriage of the two that has seen our high visibility range revolutionise the market.

As well as the aggregates and highways sectors we cater for the growing demand among the major oil, gas, water and electricity utility companies for good quality branded technical clothing that can protect against hazards like electrical arcing, extreme temperatures and, of course, the British rain.

In fact, whether you represent a national government, a multi-national giant, a family-owned contractor or work for yourself and like our products, it's you we answer to.

Military

Ministry of Defence standards leave no room for error and demand impeccable standards of service. Their stringent quality control procedures and frequent inspections have never, we're proud to say, found us wanting.

In supplying products such as the highly complex aircrew flying suits, Ballyclare Limited takes immense pride in protecting the country's fighting forces and relish what it means to have earned their trust.

Police

Some of the country's busiest police forces and Her Majesty's Prisons trust Ballyclare Limited with the safety of their employees every day in the line of duty.

We repay that trust with innovative, effective protection developed through continuous research and improvement.

We believe it's the best available. And with the continued support of the country's major forces, it seems the police share that view.

Rail

Ballyclare Limited's range of GO/RT-compliant rail PPE demonstrates our commitment to the safety of rail staff. Achilles Link-Up approved and supplying product to many thousands of wearers within the rail industry, Ballyclare Limited maintains its reputation as the sector's leading light through passion, expertise and dedication to workers on the ground.

Combining leading and innovative technology into our garments ensures total safety, protection, durability and comfort - a product offering yet to be matched by our competition. You know you can trust our products to perform.

Personalise Your Garments

Putting your logo on your garments makes your employees stand out and raises your profile. It says you're proud of who you are and what you do.

You love your Ballyclare garments and trust them to keep you safe and protected at all times; but we can do more to make them really stand out. Why not add your logo, individuals' names or job titles? We have a range of options to really add value to your corporate look.

We offer both a heat sealing and embroidery service that can be applied to many of the products we offer.

We Manufacture Our Garments

This means we can be sure every small step has been completed to the very highest standard giving you the confidence you need to wear our products in whatever conditions you have to face and the ability to specify them with the utmost certainty.

Ballyclare Limited were one of the first companies in our industry to attain ISO 9001 quality management system accreditation. We also hold Article 11B for the manufacture of complex PPE and run our business to ISO 14001 environmental management standards.

Managed Service

Our managed service option provides a turnkey solution that takes safety to a new level. It ensures all firefighters are equipped with garments that are fit-for-purpose at all times.

Ballyclare Limited's managed service covers all aspects of testing, sizing, fitting and supplying personnel with the correct garments. Throughout the service life of each garment we take care of its laundry, maintenance and repair. We provide a local stock holding facility to ensure garments can be supplied quickly and if required we offer a rapid response service with a 24/7 emergency hotline.

We Work with the Best Suppliers

We work closely with some of the world's most innovative organisations to ensure our products are manufactured with the best fabrics and technology available.

Ethical Trading

Ballyclare Limited maintains long-term supply partnerships with specialist third-party PPE manufacturers in the UK, Europe and Far East and will only work with companies that can prove they meet our strict guidelines on sourcing and working conditions.

The principles adopted by Ballyclare Limited are based on the International accepted standards set out in the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code of Labour Standards and we ensure that our suppliers and their sub-contractors,

Our I.T. is State of the Art

Ballyclare Limited has partnered with leading software vendors to enable us to manage contracts and deliver service beyond the customer expectations.

We have integrated our IT systems with some of our largest customers that has enabled us to exchange paperless data within seconds and our skills, complimented with our ERP system and suite of contract management systems are crucial elements in the level of service we deliver..

We can provide our customers with a wardrobe solution to manage spend and item issue, as well as to maintain a professional and consistent corporate image.

Our integrated Garment Service Care module (GSC) records every item allocated and issued by wearer from cradle to grave – all uniquely identified prior to dispatch. We can securely share all this information electronically with our laundry partners for those customers that we supply with a fully managed service.

We manage data for tens of thousands of wearers and using our skills and business intelligence tools we can interrogate it to produce reports that can be delivered in a variety of methods or even published on our extranet.

Trading Since

Over 25 years