Manufacturing expertise

At our site in Fürth, we combine everything from safety spectacles and full vision goggles to prescription and laser protection goggles. In this unique competence centre for protective eyewear, we develop and produce, in accordance with strict quality standards, premium coating systems to enhance the properties of our eyewear – and to create high-performance premium products.

With the laservision brand and our product promise "WE PROTECT YOUR EYES", we also offer globally standardised cutting-edge technology in laser protection and laser safety spectacles – which we develop ourselves, produce and sell.

SwedSafe in Tyringe, Sweden, is our ultra-modern manufacturing plant for hearing protection with its own research and development department all under the same roof. SwedSafe has become one of the leading manufacturers of hearing protection in only a few years since it was established, thanks to its successful network of partnerships with known hearing protection specialists and its collaboration with testing facilities across the world. SwedSafe also sets benchmarks for environmental protection and sustainability. SwedSafe regularly sets the bar just that little bit higher in hearing protection thanks to its innovative drive and its own polyurethane foam that it developed in-house.

As a specialist in foam processing, SwedSafe continuously monitors and optimises earplugs and their material composition in terms of cell structures and homogeneity. This achieves optimal reset times and the best possible contact pressure. The many patents relating to earplugs that have been filed are proof of SwedSafe's innovative drive.

uvex safety gloves, based in Lüneburg, Germany, is the uvex safety group's competence and technology center for hand protection, with research & development, in-house laboratories, and highly flexible production. This ensures high technological standards in the production of hand protection solutions as well as short distances from the manufacturer to the user.

For 95 years, uvex has remained true to Germany as its production location and is one of the largest manufacturers in the hand protection category still producing in Germany and Europe. In times of global resource shortages and limited transport capacities, this locational advantage is crucial when it comes to the availability and delivery of the products. uvex maintains control of the entire value chain; from the initial idea, through research and development to manufacturing with state-of-the-art production processes. A fully integrated development process in Lüneburg includes:

• Own yarn/liner manufacturing
• Own compounding (blending)
• Specially developed moulding and process technology
• Innovative coating technology
• Development of customer-specifi c solutions
• Technical modifications to existing products (e. g. thermal lining)
• Individual production (e. g. gloves for disabled people)

Through strategic partnerships with select manufacturers of high-quality respirators, uvex has access to the complete value chain, enabling the ongoing refinement of manufacturing processes - guaranteeing high quality face masks.

Progressive technology, unwavering commitment to innovation, maximum experience – with this winning combination, we produce ultra-modern respiratory protection with a clear eye for detail. With production processes under continuous development and strategic partnerships with selected producers, we achieve a leap forward in quality that our customers rightly expect from the uvex brand.

As a producer of highly functional face masks and a global leader in industrial eye protection, we consistently co-ordinate our developments processes. This means perfectly combinable respiratory and eye protection. Find out more.

With an ultra-modern shoe factory in Ceva, Italy, we have set ourselves the challenge of manufacturing technically demanding safety footwear at the highest level of quality and production in Europe and with short paths between development, production and delivery.

The plant in Italy is able to manufacture safety footwear extremely flexibly with a very wide range of PUR and rubber outsoles. In a progressive technology centre at the company's headquarters in Germany, we work constantly on new pioneering ideas for our customers and develop sophisticated innovations.

With our advanced expertise in plastics processing, we produce safety helmets and inner shells for bump caps in Germany. High-quality materials and on-going monitoring of all production processes guarantee the highest level of excellence for head protection products.

Expertise in head protection also means thinking about areas where helmets are not compulsory, but where there is still a risk of head injury. This is why we have developed the uvex u-cap bump cap. The innovative arrangement of the plastic shell elements is inspired by the armadillo – and uniquely combines protection and wearer comfort.