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Brands We Love

Who makes gear worth owning

The brands AllEquipped uses and recommends — starting with rope access, technical rescue and work at height. Who makes gear worth owning, and why we rate them.

CAMP Safety

From a blacksmith's forge in Premana, 1889 — the brand that made professional PPE light enough to forget you're wearing it.

Premium · Italy · est. 1889

  • Rope Access
  • Fall Protection
  • Technical Rescue

CMC

Rooted in rescue since 1978 — the systems professional teams build their capability around.

Premium · United States · est. 1978

  • Technical Rescue
  • Rope Access
  • Confined Space

DMM

Hot-forged in Llanberis since 1981 — the last climbing hardware manufacturer left in Britain, and one of the best anywhere.

Premium · United Kingdom · est. 1981

  • Rigging Hardware
  • Arborist & Tree Care
  • Rope Access

Edelrid

Founded 1863 in the Allgäu — the company that invented the rope everyone else's gear runs on.

Premium · Germany · est. 1863

  • Ropes & Cordage
  • Rope Access
  • Fall Protection

ISC Wales

International Safety Components — the industrial specialist from North Wales, built for the loads other brands treat as exceptional.

Premium · United Kingdom · est. 1994

  • Rope Access
  • Fall Protection
  • Technical Rescue

Petzl

Fifty years of French vertical-safety engineering, and the spine of most rope access kits — including ours.

Premium · France · est. 1975

  • Rope Access
  • Fall Protection
  • Technical Rescue

Rock Exotica

Precision rope-system hardware, machined in Utah since 1987 — the specialist everyone else's system ends up using.

Premium · United States · est. 1987

  • Rigging Hardware
  • Technical Rescue
  • Rope Access

Skylotec

Neuwied, Germany, since 1947 — the industrial scale player, and the only brand here that also builds the building's safety system.

Premium · Germany · est. 1947

  • Fall Protection
  • Rope Access
  • Technical Rescue

Sterling Rope

Maine-made life-safety cordage since 1992 — the rope the other five brands' hardware runs on.

Premium · United States · est. 1992

  • Ropes & Cordage
  • Rope Access
  • Technical Rescue

Teufelberger

Making rope since 1790 — still family-owned, eight generations on, and the name arborists say first.

Premium · Austria · est. 1790

  • Arborist & Tree Care
  • Ropes & Cordage
  • Forestry

These are the brands we use and recommend, written up by the people who use them. Several will become stockists when the store opens — we'll say so on the page when that happens.