Western European Industrial Protective Clothing Market
Published on : Nov-2022
Industrial protective clothing is equipment specifically designed to prevent individuals against infections or injuries such as electrical arc flash, heat and flame, dry particles, chemicals, cut hazards, and harmful aerosols. Protective clothing creates a barrier between the working environment and the wearer minimizing the risk of injuries and infections. Employees deployed in the manufacturing, healthcare, oil and gas, construction, etc. sectors usually use protective gear to reduce exposure to hazards and undertaking several control measures. These include standard precautions such as gown or coverall, mask, gloves or face protection/face shield, goggles, rubber boots, headcover for high airborne infections.
Europe is one of the important importers of Industrial Protective clothing in the world. Since the past 5 years, Industrial Protective Clothing import’s value has been proliferating on an average of 7.5% annually. In 2013, the value for imports accounted for €2.0 billion that increased to €2.9 billion in 2018. The rise in demand for industrial protective clothing is due to European safety legislation and lies above the 5.8% import growth of the entire apparel industry.
Source: CBI Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Western European markets are more outsized and developed than Eastern and Central European markets. Eastern European markets’ imports are relatively smaller than those in the West, though comparatively, they are increasing at higher rates than those in the West. Germany, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Belgium and the United Kingdom are the top Industrial protective clothing import markets.
Source: CBI Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Germany, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy are top six countries that together account for 66.7% of industrial protective clothing imports in the EU and witnessed a mounting average rate of 7.6% per year in the past five years. Other important markets include Sweden with €140 million and 6.3% average yearly growth and Spain with €113 million import value and 8.5% average yearly growth.
Source: CBI Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fatpos global predicts that panic buying, misuse and hoarding has disrupted the global supply of personal protective equipment putting lives at risk from contagious diseases and coronavirus. With the advent of Covid-19 a substantial rise in the demand for industrial protective clothing has been witnessed which has created a shortage of protective equipment leaving the doctors, nurses and other frontline workers ill-equipped and exposed to the virus. As a result of which European Commission restricted the exports of Personal protective equipment to meet the demand domestically which was later modified and new regulations were drafted restricting only the export of protective masks.
“Based on WHO modeling, an estimated 89 million medical masks are required for the COVID-19 response each month. For examination gloves, that figure goes up to 76 million, while international demand for goggles stands at 1.6 million per month. To meet rising global demand, WHO estimates that industry must increase manufacturing by 40 percent.” – WHO News
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