With our dedicated UK clothing centre and a 200-strong team of specialists, you'll never need to look elsewhere for workplace clothing services. We combine personalisation with performance, to make sure your people both look and feel good - all while meeting the highest standards of workplace safety.
Specialist Clothing Services
Personalised high-performance clothing, embroidery and badging.
Custom Embroidery Service - Professional, Stylish, Practical
Our expert embroidery service helps your business and team present a stylish, professional, and practical image. Whether it's a logo, name, or message, we offer a wide range of positions, colours, styles, and sizes to ensure your branding truly stands out.
We produce over 2.8 million garments annually, meeting a wide variety of embroidery and heat seal badge requirements. Our scale and experience allow us to deliver exceptional quality and service, trusted across industries.
Whether you're outfitting a small team or a large workforce, our embroidery solutions help you look the part - every time.
Embroidery
- Embroidery design and origination
- Embroidery application
- Embroidery text application - to personalise garments with individual names or departments
- Tax tabbing and services
- Over locked badge production and application
Embroidery involves using a needle and thread to create patterns on textiles. We have partnered with the top machine manufacturer, Barudan to ensure our embroidery finished product is the best in its class. Embroidery gives a sense of premium branding and the three-dimensional nature of embroidery styles adds depth to your designs, making logos stand out.
If a flame retardant garment is to be embroidered directly, flame retardant embroidery thread is recommended to be used.
Heat Seal Printing – Direct to Film (DTF) Technology
Using state-of-the-art Mimaki DTF printing technology, we produce high-quality heat seal badges in a wide range of sizes, suitable for application on most fabrics and garments. Whether for uniforms, workwear, or specialist PPE, our service ensures consistent branding across your workforce-helping you maintain a strong and professional brand image.
Direct to Film (DTF) is an advanced heat-seal process where your design is printed onto a specialised film using water-based inks, an adhesive powder, and a heat press. This results in:
- Vibrant colours
- Exceptional detail
- Strong durability on a variety of fabrics
Our heat seal badges have been independently tested to BS EN ISO 11612:2015 standards. When applied to the outermost layer of Arco's flame-retardant garments, they meet the limited flame spread performance requirement A1, supporting safety as well as style.
From small name badges to large back prints, our DTF service delivers long-lasting, high-performance branding for any industry.
Tax Tabbing Service by experts
We supply tax tabs (woven or printed labels) designed to brand your uniform with your company logo. These discreet labels are an elegant and subtle branding solution sewn into the seam of many garments, often preferred for work trousers, shirts, and blouses. They can feature exceptionally fine detail for a highly professional finish.
Adding woven labels to your company uniforms helps ensure they are clearly identifiable as workwear by HMRC (Inland Revenue). This can support your case that the garments are not considered a fringe benefit. For this reason, these labels are often referred to as Tax Tabs.
Wearer Packing - Efficient, Personalised Uniform Delivery
Our Wearer Packing service is the most efficient way to ensure every member of your team receives exactly what they need, delivered safely, stylishly, and ready to wear.
Tailored to Every Role
Whether you're kitting out a senior manager or a frontline worker in a hazardous environment, we manage the process for you, consolidating garments by individual wearer and delivering them in a single, clearly labelled package.
Key Benefits:
- Streamlined Distribution - Save time at the point of delivery with pre-packed, named orders-no sorting required.
- Full Traceability - From order to invoice, wearer details are replicated throughout the process, providing full accountability and transparency.
- Reduced Handling & Waste - Fewer touchpoints mean less packaging, storage, and manual processing-cutting costs and supporting sustainability.
From simplifying logistics to enhancing the experience for your employees, Wearer Packing makes outfitting your workforce faster, greener, and more accurate.
Prefer instant ordering?
You can quickly add simple text or a saved logo to thousands of garments on our site without needing to contact us. Find out how to add decoration.
We also have a selection of top requested customisation options available, ensuring quick and efficient service. Just mention this to our dedicated team when ordering.
Embroidery and Badging
Our embroidery and badging service allows your business and its people to project an image that's stylish, professional and practical. We offer a choice of position, colours, styles and sizes - guaranteeing your logo, name or message stand out.
Your people aren't just employees - they're ambassadors for your whole brand. Make sure your customers know exactly who's responsible for the great work your business is doing.
We produce over 2.8 million garments a year covering many of your embroidery and heat seal badge requirements - providing you with the highest level of quality and service in the industry.
With our DTF printing technology, using state of the art Mimaki machines, we produce heat-sealed badges from small to large sizes that can be applied to most fabrics and garments. Whatever your needs, we deliver consistent quality branding throughout your workforce, maintaining your brand reputation.
Our embroidery and heat seal badging service includes:
Embroidery:
- Embroidery design and origination
- Embroidery application
- Embroidery text application - to personalise garments with individual names or departments
- Tax tabbing and services
- Over locked badge production and application
Embroidery involves using a needle and thread to create patterns on textiles. We have partnered with the top machine manufacturer, Barudan to ensure our embroidery finished product is the best in its class. Embroidery gives a sense of premium branding and the three-dimensional nature of embroidery styles adds depth to your designs, making logos stand out.
If a flame retardant garment is to be embroidered directly, flame retardant embroidery thread is recommended to be used.
Heat Seal: Direct to Film (DTF) Printing
- Artworking services for your design
- Heatseal application
- Cad cut text application - to personalise garments with individual names or departments
- Long-lasting and high-quality finish
- Exceptional durability and fade resistance
- Versatile to use on various fabrics
DTF printing is a cutting-edge heat-seal process that prints your design onto a special film which can be transferred onto various fabrics. A combination of water-based inks, powder, and specially formulated film gives your logo vibrancy and a high print quality.
Heat seal badges produced by Arco have been tested in accordance with BS EN ISO 11612:2015 and when applied to the outermost material of Arco's flame-retardant garments meet the limited flame spread performance requirements A1.
Wearer Packing
Our Wearer Packing service is the most efficient way to get your people kitted out in exactly the items they need in order to do their jobs safely, stylishly and in comfort.
Wearer Packing removes the burden of you needing to manually organise and distribute workwear and PPE to individuals. Instead, we arrange for each employee to receive a personalised package, based on their individual requirements and sizes. It's everything your people need, from head-to-toe.
Once your order arrives, all you need to do is distribute the labelled packages, saving you valuable time, effort, and ensuring your people get exactly what they need to stay safe at work.
Our Wearer Packing service is tailored across your entire business: whether you're ordering clothing for an employee at management level or someone who works in hazardous environments, we take care of it all in one convenient delivery.
You not only save time on receipt of delivery and distribution but also get clear traceability from order to invoice, with wearer information replicated throughout the process. Wearer Packing also greatly reduces the need for additional handling, packaging and storage - which is good for the environment, as well as your business.
