News
News and press coverage
In this section of our website you will be able to keep up with developments, news and views not only from Bristol but also from the range of publications and other media which regularly picks up, and comments, on the company's activities.
Communicating news from around the world
As a global player in the manufacture and supply of personal protective garments and equipment for the world's emergency services, we are active both directly, and through appointed distributors, in over 110 countries around the word. This means that there is something newsworthy happening, somewhere, virtually all the time. We will use this news section to report on many of these developments whether in the UK or in our worldwide export markets. Some of this will be in the form of news releases and feature articles.
We will also bring you a selection of news coverage from UK and international publications, websites and other media in the fire, ambulance and police sectors of the emergency services. Where national, regional and local press has shown an interest in our activities, we will also bring you a selection of this coverage.
We invite you to revisit these pages regularly as news is updated frequently. Current news is listed chronologically on the main news page, whilst older news, features and articles are kept in an archive section which you are welcome to browse for past developments which may be of interest to you.
Forthcoming exhibitions
18 FEB, 2012
Bristol regularly exhibits both in the UK and abroad at major fire and emergency services shows a...
Another first as South Yorkshire FRS adopts new PPE in PBI black
30 JAN, 2012
South Yorkshire FRS have become the first fire service in the UK to re-equip its firefighters wit...
Airport firefighting
26 JAN, 2012
In this article, reproduced from Fire Product Search, some of the main aspects of airport firefig...
New USAR PPE incorporates XFlex design principles
12 JAN, 2012
Following the successful launch of XFlex™, Bristol’s innovative PPE design for struct...
Safety at Sea
14 DEC, 2011
Asia Pacific Fire article Despite the existenceof marine safety standar...
Marine firefighting fleet suit meets new MarED standards
29 NOV, 2011
An all-new range of marine firefighting PPE, designed to meet the introduction of upgraded Europe...
Broadening the base, deepening the commitment
10 NOV, 2011
In this article, which appeared in Fire magazine in the November 2011 edition, Roger Startin, Bri...
New generation HART kit for ambulance service
10 OCT, 2011
Drawing on the past 2 years’ experience of ambulance HARTs across the UK with the original ...
Meeting the global PPE needs of firefighters
01 OCT, 2011
This article looks at the global reach of Bristol's firefighter PPE business and the internat...
New website launched
30 SEP, 2011
October sees the launch of Bristol’s new website which has been designed and built to provi...
ICP uptake shows steady progress
29 SEP, 2011
In the year since last September, the interest in, and uptake of, the products and services provi...
All at Sea
21 SEP, 2011
This maritime PPE feature, published in the September edition, looks at marine firefighting a...
XFlex innovative PPE
12 SEP, 2011
Fire Magazine's September issue PPE supplement carried an article in which Bristol's...
XFlex structural PPE system launched by Bristol
09 SEP, 2011
XFlex™ ushers in a new generation of flexible PPE sol...
Marine Standards
25 AUG, 2011
In this feature article, published in August 2011, Bristol's Technical Manage...
Meeting the needs of firefighters across 5 continents
19 AUG, 2011
Reproduced with acknowledgements to Industrial Fire Journal, this article, part of a PPE Foc...
Ambulance HARTs use managed services to make budgets go further
31 MAY, 2011
With Health Authorities searching ever harder to identify operational savings to minim...
Fighting oil, gas and petrochemical fires
17 MAR, 2011
In this article, reproduced with acknowledgements to Fire Times, publshed in March 2011, the spec...
Second generation managed services for protective garments
10 MAR, 2011
Bristol Uniforms report on the recent development of procurement processes, as well as the mainte...
Derbyshire flashover fire
07 MAR, 2011
Bristol firefighter clothing praised for protection provided in Derbyshire flashover i...
HART technical rescue kit goes national
03 MAR, 2011
Bristol announces that its HART technical rescue kit has been adopted by all the ...
Over 80% of PPE users opt for integrated managed services
08 FEB, 2011
Since Bristol introduced its in-house managed services programme for the fire & rescue servic...
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