Most firefighters in the Netherlands wear a Zeeland firefighting suit. The suits are from PWG from Goes. The company is the market leader in the field of safety clothing. Seventy percent of firefighters in the Netherlands work in a PWG suit.
Dutch market
The vast majority of PWG’s production is intended for the Dutch market, but the safety clothes also regularly cross the border to, for example, Saudi Arabia and Luxembourg. In Zeeland, only the corps of Thule, Vlissingen carries no suits from PWG. The design is done in Goes. The production takes place in Poland.
Innovation is the strength of the company
In order to maintain the good position in the market, new clothing is regularly designed, such as the gas overalls and a new fireman’s suit that can be worn during wildfires which have high light reflective tapes. The ‘forest fire suit’ was developed together with the fire brigade of Zwolle because forest fires are increasingly taking place and the normal fire suits are too heavy and hot to work all day long. Special gas overalls to ensure that the gas mechanic does not get gas in his overalls.
Fair-trade
Being distinctive is one of the spearheads of PWG because that is also why the family business maintains its good market position. That is why brother and sister West veer chose to work as a sole company in the Netherlands with Max Have lair fabrics in order to be able to use the Fair-trade quality mark. The organic cotton cannot be used in all clothing, but the reflective vest is made for a large part of it.