Reports

The upcoming ROPE RESCUE SPECIAL TEAM TOURNAMENT AND 100M ASCEND RACE OPEN COMPETITION on October 30th & 31th, 2015 in Taiwan, organized by Ascent International Rope Access Service Ltd., is sponsored by SKYLOTEC through our national Taiwan distributor. Continue reading → Read more

SKYLOTEC has now opened another new training centre for its "Vertical Rescue College". The site in Scandinavia is one of nearly 20 worldwide, in which SKYLOTEC, a leading manufacturer of personal protective equipment against falls from a height (PPE) and fall protection systems, prepare employees for work and rescue. This is because wearing PPE as protection against the danger of a fall from a height at work is simply not enough. Employees should also know how to put it on, how to maintain the equipment and how to respond should the worst happen and they or their colleagues needs to be rescued and how to do this quickly and safely. Continue reading → Read more

Some time ago, we started a precautionary recall for a sports collection product, the via ferrata set SKYSAFE II, as irregularities were detected on the carabiners that could potentially lead to a malfunction of the automatic opening and closing mechanism. Continue reading → Read more

The innovative and customizable SKYRAIL fall arrest system by SKYLOTEC was selected by an international jury out of several thousand contributions as a winner of the iF Design Award 2015! While conventional systems limit the working scope to the length of their protection device, the SKYRAIL fall arrest system enables access to any area of a building site without steady mounting and unmounting, due to its ingenious system. A flexibility that SKYRAIL allows up to three users simultaneously… Continue reading → Read more

The SKYLOTEC VERTICAL RESCUE COLLEGE (VRC) team in Sweden has signed a major contract with Vattenfall AB for trainings in Rescue From Heights. This contract, valid for 4 years and applicable to no less than 1,700 Vattenfall employees, shows again the excellent training skills SKYLOTEC offers to one of the bigger service providers for electricity and utility workers in Europe.  The trainings will be performed both on Vattenfall´s training locations as well as in VRC training centers around Sweden. Interested in training for your employees? We train worldwide, also at your location! Contact us at [email protected] Read more

GENTIC (a SKYLOTEC brand) is back! The new GENTIC Homepage is now online to revive this 80s and 90s climbing and bouldering fashion clothing line, and its collection is now available online (incl. Amazon) and in selected shops in Germany... Interested as well? Contact us! Read more

Regularly we receive requests for photos, flyers and so on, concerning our products. You can find all available images (in high-res format for printing as well!), flyers, manuals, data sheets, etc. on our website. Click either in the main menu on Services -> Downloads, or at the bottom of each individual product page on More Images or Product downloads. Questions regarding this matter? Just contact us! Read more

How to put on a harness is not always easy and clear to first-time or irregular users. This image series will be helpful for you, your users or your customers. Should you still have any questions,feel free to contact us! Read more

Ultra-light – ultra-comfortable – ultra-flexible SKYLOTEC, pioneer and innovative visionary when it comes to safety in heights for mountaineering and industrial climbing, always combines its whole Know-how from both worlds in its product range. This symbiosis constantly generates new unique highlights, which offers the very best products for rope access operatives and mountaineers. With the RECORD, an ultra-light and extremely comfortable harness, SKYLOTEC succeeded to develop a harness of superlatives for industrial climbing. With its 704 grams the basic version offers not only the feathery wearing comfort of a sports harness, it is at present also the lightest harness available on the market for tree care! Continue reading → Read more

The Electronic Self Belay system for high ropes courses SKYLOTEC, a global market leader for industrial fall arrest products, continuously develops and presents innovative products with new technologies to provide users with the best possible protection from falling. In 2013 the security specialist development team of SKYLOTEC presented the first prototype of the EASY ESB on the ERCA (European Rope Course Association) Conference in Hennef. As perfection and reliability are top-priorities for SKYLOTEC, the finalizing development of the EASY ESB has been continued since then. Now in 2015, designed specifically for high ropes courses and climbing parks, the electronic security device is being introduced in the market. Continue reading → Read more

Mobile, flexible and 100% safe in lead climbing with EPIC (Electronic Partner for Individual Climbing) – the first electronic belay partner. EPIC provides perfect protection at all times. Thanks to this innovative securing device, it is now possible to automatically secure a lead climber when working at heights. Battery-driven and low-weight, it can be transported easily by the worker, also to environments that are difficult to access. The EPIC can be installed easily and quickly onto a pylon or similar structures. The rope is placed around the pulley and the user can start climbing to his deployment spot. The securing is carried out automatically. Continue reading → Read more

Our retractable type fall arrester PEACH has been renamed to MARBLE with immediate effect. As such, we now uniformly use the same name worldwide. Continue reading → Read more

On the Maritime Campus in Elsfleth SKYLOTEC and the German Wind Guard have established a new training tower. At the 19 meter high tower section of a wind turbine there will be safety trainings for employees from wind energy companies. Continue reading → Read more

Read the test report which has been sent to us by COMTRAIN / USA Continue reading → Read more

Let us win together to get the award-triple. After IF Design Award, German Design Award, we can win the Public's Choice Award with your help. We are happy about every single vote and say: THANK YOU! Vote here for the Pinchlock II Read more

Last Friday there was the ceremony from the German Design Council. The SKYLOTEC team has been awarded for technology and design of the Pinchlock II. The award is a great pleasure for all of us. Continue reading → Read more

The only one of its kind - 50-140 kg within the norm! Revolutionary, new, patented shock absorber system that always realizes the large weight range from 50kg - 140kg with a max. impact force of less than 6 kN and a fall arrest distance of max. 1.75m. Continue reading → Read more

Stormy wind, lashing rain and meterhigh waves – People working on the high seas are subject to the harshest conditions. These experts have to rely more than 100% upon themselves and on their equipment. The new OFFSHORE MASTER from SKYLOTEC is developed completely with stainless steel precisely for these circumstances. Continue reading → Read more

From 26.01. to 29.01. SYKLOTEC presented the MOUNTAIN WAVE ski collection at the ISPO 2014 in Munich at the Freeski - Summit in hall A3 Stand 303. Trough all the talks to customers, friends, partners, journalist and competitors it was a clear evidence. Freeride fitted touringskiis are the trend for the next years! Continue reading → Read more