The aerospace manufacturing company produces rotary aircraft for commercial, public utility, security and defence use. Its Yeovil site has 1,400 employees and manages design, development, manufacture, test, customer support, training and sales.
Previously called Berendsen, Elis has been operating its workwear supply and laundry service for over a hundred years, and now runs a nationwide service, with in-house PPE expertise and workwear manufacturing, and a nationwide network of 43 industrial laundries and delivery fleets.
Leonardo Helicopter stated that the correct workwear for all its production and technical stuff if fundamental to its health and safety requirements.
Martin Southard, Leonardo Helicopters’ Site Facilities Contracts Manager explained that “following a formal tender process, and then a series of additional reviews and a visit to an Elis laundry facility, Elis were awarded the contract to provide new bespoke workwear, including a laundry service and weekly site clinic”.
A range of workwear was provided for all 1,400 Leonardo employees, including boiler suits, trousers and jackets and different coloured shoulder flashes with bespoke embroidery. Elis’s stock control and systems guaranteed to adapt to employees moving between Leonardo’s 28 different departments on a regular basis.
Elis General Manager, Sean Goldsworthy expressed that “we are delighted to have been awarded the contract to supply and launder Leonardo Helicopters’ bespoke workwear. Elis provides a wide range of high quality, durable and comfortable certified workwear, with all protective workwear PPE requirements covered. For businesses of all sizes, we collect soiled workwear, professionally launder and maintain it, and return the clean workwear to an agreed schedule, ensuring employees are protected, comfortable and look the part”.
