Last month Mechanix Wear attended the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety conference (QMIHSC), where it launched its Speedknit Eco range of knitted gloves as well as its new recycling program, RevUp.
Industries that rely on personal protective equipment are increasingly focused on reducing their environmental impact. The RevUp program provides a practical and cost-effective solution to help achieve that goal.
Difficult or disruptive sustainability programs rarely gain traction, so Mechanix Wear took care to ensure that the RevUp initiative would be relatively easy to implement and could be tailored to suit individual needs.
The RevUp program encompasses the values of revolutionising, revitalising, and recycling end-of-life products. It’s a four-step, closed loop process, part of which involves Mechanix Wear creating a tailor-made reverse logistics solution.
Instead of taking them to landfill, all gloves will go to Upparel, an on-shore textile recovery and recycling organisation. There, they will either be donated to charities or revitalised into other usable products.
Feedback from attendees was overwhelmingly supportive, which reinforces the notion that end users don’t just consider sustainability to be a trend or fad—it’s a priority.
Mechanix Wear also featured its new sustainable glove at the QMIHSC conference: The SpeedKnit Eco M-Pact. Attendees were impressed by its comfort, dexterity, and light weight. Especially when you consider that the glove provides high resistance to cuts, abrasions, and impacts.
The positive reception proves something that Mechanix Wear has long understood: customers value genuine efforts towards sustainability. That’s why Mechanix Wear will continue to push forward achievable and forward-looking initiatives like RevUp and develop responsibly-sourced and environmentally-conscious products like the SpeedKnit Eco M-Pact.
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