Workwear division created as Askas.
Launches its first soft-feel, fully-certified FR/Arc garments.
Family investment creates the ProGARM brand and a laser-focus on arc-flash & FR specialism.
Supplying blue-chip clients including Balfour Beatty, Wincanton & Certas Energy.
Askas business is sold and the business doubles down on arc-flash leadership and technical protection.
First six-figure national PPE contract secured (£850k).
FlamePro brought into the family.
FlamePro, a business trading since 2005, was acquired and brought into the group of companies with ProGARM. This took us into the defence and security space for the first time and we re-developed the product range to be world leading.
Adapted during COVID to support customers and protect jobs. Expanded product innovation and international reach. FlamePro wins its first long-term UK MOD firefighting-PPE contract.
Defence Fire & Rescue contract with 35,000 ensemble items delivered, establishing FlamePro in the Defence market.
Opens a 120-person production facility in Bulgaria, boosting in-house capacity, and supplies 10,000 extreme-climate sleeping-bag systems to UK MOD.
FlamePro expanded into Australia and the Middle East, opening our first international offices.
>300,000 soldier systems items and 10,000 entrenching tools shipped to UK MOD for Ukraine support.
£14.5m contract won with UK MOD.
First wearable & rapid-deploy signature-management prototypes move from lab build to field evaluation, while our female-first complex-geometry body-armour system begins MOD user trials.
Arcus brand launched replacing FlamePro Defence, combining 21-year textile heritage with focused multispectral, soldier-system & rapid-capability expertise.
Awarded place on the UK NFCC framework.
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Arcus operates across four core areas, each focused on practical operational value
Multispectral survivability for personnel, vehicles
and operational positions.
Specialist operational clothing designed around demanding environments
and operator-specific requirements.
Bespoke medical capability for requirements where standard systems
do not fully meet the need.
Responsive sourcing support for urgent operational requirements
and specialist equipment.
