For over 100 years, Safety Components has maintained the highest reputation for product quality, innovation, diversity and on-time delivery. The company designs and produces textiles for fire service, military, outdoor fabrics, aerospace escape slides, fuel cells and more. Safety Components also manufactures a wide array of highly technical fabrics for industrial and commercial applications such as filtration, specialty military, composites, tyre manufacturing and coated fabrics.
It is the company’s mission to develop innovative and cutting-edge fabrics that maximize the highest-quality and highest-strength raw materials available in today’s marketplace. Safety Components’ product development staff work alongside customers and valued suppliers worldwide to design products that are functional, meet customer specifications and ultimately raise the bar of product performance.
A leader in innovation, Safety Components was the first to employ ballistic-grade Kevlar filament in outer-shell fabrics by developing a revolutionary blend of military-grade filament Kevlar and producer-dyed Nomex/Kevlar fibres to deliver higher reinforcements against rips, tears and abrasion.
Technology in PPE has continued to advance. Lighter, stronger, more flexible FR fabrics coupled with ergonomic garment designs have revolutionized the way firefighters perform while wearing turnout gear.
Filament Twill Technology™, developed and patented by Safety Components, can be found in international outer shells like PBI Max™ LP, Nomex 360™, and Armor AP™ and in thermal liners like Glide Ice™. Flexible fabrics woven with filament and spun yarns in a twill design are making fabrics made of 90–100% spun yarns in a rip-stop weave a thing of the past.
Industry-leading manufacturing and R&D
Safety Components’ manufacturing facility is located in Greenville, South Carolina, USA, where trained associates armed with the latest in fabric-formation technology and equipment produce a diverse portfolio of technical fabrics. The 800,000sq. ft facility has full capabilities to manufacture, test and warehouse Safety Components products. Applications include firefighter turnout gear, flame-resistant military uniforms, fuel cells, oil booms, soft armour, filter media, ballistic luggage and aircraft escape slides.
Safety Components operates two separately conditioned physical laboratories as well as a specialized area for both chemical and performance screening. All laboratory inspection, measuring and testing equipment is under calibration control with traceability to NIST or equivalent standards.
The Safety Components laboratory is responsible for developing and participating in ASTM-sponsored proficiency testing studies for a wide variety of textiles. The laboratory is accredited to perform or consult within a wide range of standards and testing procedures.
Safety Components’ Laboratory and Quality Assurance Departments are staffed by personnel who are trained as quality system auditors in accordance with the standards of ISO/IEC 17025, ISO/IEC 9001:2008, and ISO/IEC TS-16949.
All fabrics are produced, tested, and inspected to the industry’s highest standards. Safety Components maintains ISO 9001:2008, TS 16949, and ISO 14001 certifications. The company’s fabric testing laboratories are ISO 17025 approved, ASTM (North America), DIN (Europe), and JIS (Asia) certified.
Safety Components laboratory has a comprehensive scope of accreditations using consensus methods from domestic and international standards. These include ASTM, AATCC, NFPA, ISO, DIN, and JIS L-1096. Other mechanical tests may be evaluated upon request.
Safety Components operates as part of Elevate Textiles with worldwide operations in the United States, Mexico and China. Elevate Textiles offers global textile brands including American & Efird, Burlington, Cone Denim, Gütermann and Safety Components.
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