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Food
Protective clothing for the food industry.
Alsico designs and manufactures food production clothing for processing, manufacturing and packaging teams across Europe.
Workwear for the food industry
Alsico supplies food industry workwear for manufacturing plants, processing lines, packaging halls, bakeries, dairies, meat facilities, beverage operations, and ready-meal production sites. These are environments where clothing must serve two purposes at once: protecting the product from contamination and protecting the wearer through long, physically demanding shifts.
Our food production workwear is designed around the practical realities of food manufacturing. Every garment is built to perform under these conditions day after day, without compromising on fit, comfort, or compliance.
Where hygiene is the starting point
In food manufacturing, the garment is part of the hygiene barrier. Loose threads, shed fibres, unfastened buttons, and poorly designed pockets can all introduce foreign bodies into the production environment. Clothing that absorbs and holds moisture creates conditions where bacteria can multiply. And garments that do not withstand industrial laundering at the temperatures required by food safety protocols lose their protective value faster than they should.
Alsico develops food industry protective clothing that treats hygiene as a design principle. Our garments are constructed to support food safety systems such as HACCP, BRC, and IFS, helping production teams meet audit requirements through the clothing they wear every day.
For nearly 100 years, protecting the workers around the world has been part of our DNA.
Gauthier Siau, CEO alsico Group
Protection is built into everything we do
We specialise in protecting people through complex workwear solutions for large-scale organisations that need more than standard, off-the-shelf garments. When the right solution does not yet exist, we listen to our wearers and bring together our industry expertise and team of experts to develop the high-performance fabrics that go into our garments.
With that expertise comes a responsibility to do everything we can to protect the workers of the world, the people of alsico and the planet we all share.
Trusted by food manufacturers across the globe
“Throughout the entire testing period, alsico paid close attention to our feedback. Adjustments were made over the course of the year, and today even the customers notice the difference. Our outfits look more professional and more comfortable to assure a great service in the butcher’s department.”
Christophe, head butcher at the Colruyt store in Ath
NEARLY 100 YEARS OF EXPERTISE
Legacy of safety in HACCP clothing
Alsico is a family business that has been designing, manufacturing, and supplying workwear for nearly a century. We work with organisations where clothing is not a peripheral purchase but a functional part of the production environment.
Our garments protect 10 million people every day, supported by independent quality checks, in-house testing, dedicated designers, and product engineers. We continue to invest in how workwear is made, including our own end-of-life hub for garment recycling.
For food industry teams, that depth of experience means food factory workwear shaped by decades of working alongside production managers, quality teams, and the people who wear the garments on the line.
Speak to an expert
Every food production site has its own combination of hygiene requirements, temperature conditions, role structures, and audit frameworks.
Our team can help you assess your food factory workwear requirements and identify garment options that support your food safety system, your workers’ comfort, and your operational schedule. We can support you from initial planning through to wearer trials and rollout.
Supporting food safety and hygiene standards
Food manufacturers operate within demanding quality and safety frameworks. Food-safety systems and certification schemes such as HACCP, IFS, and FSSC 22000 require organisations to control every potential source of product contamination. Clothing is a recognised risk area within each of these frameworks.
Food industry protective clothing supports compliance by removing or reducing the garment-related risks that auditors look for: exposed buttons and fastenings that could detach, external pockets above waist level where foreign objects can fall into product, loose hems and cuffs that could shed fibres, and fabrics that do not withstand the wash temperatures needed to eliminate microbial contamination.
Alsico’s food factory uniforms are designed with these audit points built in, so that the garment supports the food safety system rather than creating additional risk for the quality team to manage.
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Bespoke design service
Food manufacturers often need to manage multiple garment specifications across a single site. Production line staff, quality controllers, engineering teams, cold-store workers, and visitors may each need distinct clothing.
Alsico’s design team can work with you to build a food manufacturing clothing programme that reflects these operational layers. Our designers consider hygiene requirements, temperature conditions, wearer comfort, role identification, colour-coding for zoning or allergen control, branding, and how garments will be managed through their wash and replacement cycle.
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Workwear built for the demands of food manufacturing
Food production floors test garments in ways that office environments never will. Shifts are long. Temperatures swing between chilled storage areas below 0°C and cooking or baking zones well above 30°C. Floors are wet. Workers bend, lift, reach, and move repetitively for hours. Food manufacturing clothing must hold its shape, colour, and functional properties through all of this. Fabrics need to dry quickly, resist staining, and maintain their integrity after hundreds of wash cycles.
This is the standard alsico designs to. Our food processing clothing is developed for the conditions food manufacturers operate in.
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Our role and expertise
manufacturing process
Alsico owns and operates its own production facilities, with more than 8,000 employees across 21 factories. For food industry customers, that means food industry workwear produced under direct quality oversight, with the volume capacity and consistency needed to supply large manufacturing operations across multiple sites.
dedicated project team
Our project teams work with food manufacturers from initial garment planning through to wearer trials and operational rollout. For food production organisations, that means clothing programmes shaped around hygiene frameworks, temperature zones, role structures, laundering requirements, and the day-to-day realities of factory life.
innovative solutions
Alsico continues to develop its own fabrics, garment designs and production methods to improve how food production workwear performs. By developing our own performance fabrics that go into our garments, we can better control comfort, performance and longevity, while advancing more responsible material sourcing and end-of-life garment recycling.
commitment to protection
With nearly a century in workwear manufacturing, alsico understands that food processing workwear must satisfy both the people who wear it and the quality systems that govern the production environment. We are GRS certified and continue to develop garment options that balance performance, comfort, durability, and environmental responsibility.
Frequently asked questions
Workers in food manufacturing, processing, and packaging environments typically need hygienic food industry workwear designed to minimise contamination risk. This may include tunics, trousers, coats, coveralls, and head coverings, depending on the role, the production zone, the temperature, and the requirements of the site’s food safety management system.
Exposed buttons, press studs, and zip pulls can detach and fall into food products during manufacturing, creating a foreign body contamination risk. Food factory uniforms with concealed fastenings eliminate this risk by keeping all closure components covered and secured within the garment’s construction.
Colour-coded food processing clothing helps food manufacturers manage movement between production zones, separating raw from cooked areas, allergen from allergen-free zones, and production staff from visitors or contractors. Consistent colour coding acts as a visual control that reinforces the site’s physical segregation and supports compliance with food safety audit requirements.
Yes. Food manufacturing clothing from alsico is designed to withstand repeated industrial laundering at the high temperatures required by food safety standards. Fabrics are selected for dimensional stability, colour fastness, and resistance to degradation over many wash cycles, so that garments maintain their hygiene properties and visual appearance throughout their working life.
Food industry protective clothing is designed primarily to protect the product from the wearer, rather than the other way around. This means the garment focuses on minimising particle shedding, foreign body risk, and microbial contamination. Standard industrial workwear prioritises protecting the wearer from physical hazards. Food workwear also needs to meet the hygiene and audit requirements of food safety systems such as HACCP and BRC, which standard workwear is not designed for.
Yes. Food manufacturers often need different garment types, colours, and specifications for different roles and production areas. Alsico can develop food factory workwear programmes tailored to each zone and role, supporting hygiene requirements, temperature conditions, colour coding, branding, and wearer comfort across the entire facility.
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