Article - Wholesale PPE Distributors in South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana


29 Jun 2020

At XCO Group, we use three headings to categorise our ranges of protective products, many of which are particularly relevant, if not essential, in the management and control of a rapidly-spreading pandemic.

We supply PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), PPC (Personal Protective Clothing), and Essential Products to assist in preventing people from falling victim to COVID-19, the currently incurable viral infection that has spread throughout the world.

Improve Safety Level with XCO’s PPE

PPE has always featured amongst the XCO product list, because it’s imperative that a number of sectors and persons in specialised or potentially hazardous occupations or conditions are furnished with appropriate, effective protective gear when on the job or amongst other people. Health, well-being, personal safety, and even lives may depend on the type and level of protection that each item offers.

Now, in current COVID-19 conditions and without PPE, such people and the entire population at large are extra vulnerable. While measures like safe social distancing, frequent hand washing and sanitising, and establishing strict lockdown and isolation protocols are important measures to prevent infection from spreading, these steps alone are insufficient, although helpful.

By adding additional protective layers via PPE, each step in the preventative and protective process is enhanced. In order to meet the healthcare demands pertaining to prevention and protection during the coronavirus pandemic, XCO Group is able to offer a wider range of products in the all-important PPE category.

XCO Group Companies, Customers, and Categories

We, at XCO Group, are manufacturers, branding-customisation experts, distributors, and wholesale suppliers of enormous, comprehensive ranges of merchandise to the corporate and team-wear sectors throughout South Africa, as well as internationally, in Namibia and Botswana, where there are also XCO-representative companies.

Our product ranges are categorised and sub-categorised, because the entire XCO Group offering consists of more than 230 000 products, spread across in excess of 130 high-quality brands, which are well-known and highly regarded in the team-wear industry and most importantly, amongst our loyal customers.

Currently, our main customer base extends to include the following bodies, all of whom have participated in ensuring that their team members are well-dressed and that we’ve reached, maintained, and grown a prominent position as one of the most reliable, reputable team-wear supply concerns in Africa:

  • Athletes at provincial and national levels
  • Schools
  • Tertiary educational or training institutions
  • Government departments

Now, while strict adherence to lockdown measures at various stages, plus the use of COVID-19-related PPE are compulsory for overall and individual, personal protection, it is clear that our entire customer network – those listed above, the corporate sector and those associated with such organisations should all benefit from products that appear in our conveniently categorised XCO Group online wholesale catalogues.

Essential Products

  • Face masks and face shields, a comprehensive range, including superior KN95 masks, designed to filter out at least 95% of airborne particles, as well as N95 medical masks.
  • Gloves - Latex and Nitrile.
  • Informative posters, signs, banners, floor markers, banner walls, and signboards that indicate restricted areas, hand-sanitising requirements, and hand-washing recommendations, temperature checkpoints, mask-wearing rules, and social-distancing instructions.
  • Clear protective table-mounted barrier screens for desks, work stations, or reception desks.
  • Sanitisers, in gel, liquid, spray, pump, and wipe variants.
  • Sanitiser dispensers – wall-mounted and foot-operated stands available.
  • Infrared thermometers.

PPE Category

  • Respirator filters and cartridges

Although this particular XCO Group and its PPE sub-categories are designated in our handy online catalogue as products that qualify as PPE, almost all the ranges and items that are listed and illustrated are not specifically applicable to prevention of and protection against COVID-19 infection.  The same applies to the products that fall within our XCO PPC category, which relates to normal, non-COVID-19, work-related protection against the agents, processes, and pollutants from which the wearer wishes to be shielded.

These avoidable hazards include dust, debris, stains, spills, paint, sparks, abnormally high and low workplace temperatures, chemical spills, fumes, and vapours, to name only a few undesirable elements against which people require protection. None apply to the threat posed by infection, infectious illnesses, or bacterial or viral disease-causing contaminants.

Nonetheless, there is comfort and peace of mind in knowing that the XCO Group always strives to meet and ideally, exceed the needs and demands of our customers and the times and conditions in which they live and work.

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