Valiant structural firefighting jacket – combine comfort with protection without compromises.

We’ve shaken up the market for technical firefighter gear, and the jacket for our new generation Valiant structural firefighter suit strikes the perfect balance between protection and comfort.

It features the range’s exclusive fabric system – we’ve brought innovation to a market that has been stagnant for more than a decade. This clever fabric combination means the jacket can be specified with a smart 3D technology in both the moisture barrier and thermal lining, making it feel light to wear, while delivering high levels of thermal protection.

Fabric system
The new Valiant range features a choice of fabric systems which:

• Offer brilliant breathability and exceptional ability to transport moisture away from the skin
• Keep firefighters cooler for longer while delivering much-needed radiant heat protection
• Are comfortable, not bulky and quick-drying

Available in a choice of five outer fabrics to suit all budgets and give options around tensile strength, radiant heat transfer and breathability. (For more information on garment system options, see the tab below.)

Available with FlamePro’s innovative new 3D moisture barrier and thermal lining, this interior fabric system delivers the very best combination of radiant heat protection and moisture management to keep firefighters cool when the heat is on.

Thoughtful design, built around you and your crews.

Designed from a blank sheet of paper by a team with more than eight decades of industry experience, this is a structural fire suit built around you.

A detailed understanding of the demands placed on the modern firefighter informed every detail in this ground-breaking new range.

The jacket features amazing 7-panel sleeves designed in such a way that the jacket won’t ride up whilst stretching or climbing, chunky grab tabs for easy use when wearing gloves, comfortable cuffs with thumb loops to stop sleeves riding up, and shortened zips complemented by intelligently-placed Velcro™ fastenings to make crawling and climbing easier.

Plus extra 3D spacers in the jacket and braces to vastly reduce compression when wearing breathing apparatus, plus helping air to circulate so sweat is wicked away, and the chances of steam burns are reduced.

Available in a range of sizes, with bespoke male and female cuts, the Valiant jacket is the ultimate choice for the needs of the modern firefighter.

Valiant structural firefighting trousers – combine comfort with protection without compromises.

Elegant ergonomic design makes these Valiant trousers an easy choice for the modern firefighter.

Packed with thoughtful features, created after meticulous research (and the 80 years of combined industry experience from the team behind the range), these trousers feel light and comfortable to wear, without any compromise on protection from the dangers of radiant heat.

Fabric system

The new Valiant range features a choice of fabric systems which:

• Offer brilliant breathability and exceptional ability to transport moisture away from the skin
• Keeps firefighters cooler for longer while delivering much-needed radiant heat protection
• Is comfortable, not bulky and quick-drying

Available in a choice of five outer fabrics to suit all budgets and give options around tensile strength, radiant heat transfer and breathability. (For more information on garment system options, see the tab below.)

Available with FlamePro’s innovative 3D moisture barrier and thermal lining, the interior fabric system delivers the very best combination of radiant heat protection and moisture management to keep firefighters cool when the heat is on.

Follow these links to find out more about the outer fabrics, the moisture barrier and the thermal lining.

Detailed design for flawless functionality

FlamePro’s new Valiant structural firefighting suit range is engineered to allow firefighters to stretch, bend, and move and still be protected, because of our obsession with every aspect of design, ergonomics and fit.

The right size pockets just where you need them, easily-accessible loops and clips, plus clever waist adjusters mean the Valiant trousers do just what you need them to.

Padded and shaped Kevlar™-lined knee pads provide protection when crawling, and 3D spacer pads in the back offer additional lumbar protection and comfort when wearing breathing apparatus.

Available in a range of sizes, with bespoke male and female cuts, the Valiant trousers are the ultimate choice for the needs of the modern firefighter.

The new FlamePro moisture barrier.

A crucial component in the keeping firefighters cool, the moisture barrier in a structural firefighting suit has to work hard.

With little or no innovation in moisture barriers in firefighter protective suits for well over a decade, the FlamePro team decided to challenge the market by going in search of something new and with vastly improved performance.

Our fabric specialist, multi-award-winning Stanley Russell knew just where to look.

FlamePro’s exclusive new moisture barrier is made by combining two layers: a 3D non-woven fabric produced by Norafin, one of the biggest specialist non-woven fabric manufacturers in the world; and a modified version of the renowned Event membrane – used by the US military and known as the most breathable ePTFE membrane in the world.

The resulting moisture barrier, with its 3D construction, is years ahead of previous technical fabrics in terms of performance.

This exclusive combination gave us a moisture barrier that:

• Is the same weight as Fire Blocker
• Offers increased breathability, moisture management and high-temperature wash durability
• Delivers better thermal performance against radiant heat than like-for-like suits

The critical element of air

To keep fire crews as cool as possible when they are battling raging heat you need air.
Space between the firefighter’s skin and the layers of the fabric system creates airflow which helps keep the body cool. And it also, critically, allows the body’s in-built cooling mechanism – sweating – to do its job.

The right amount of air allows sweat to evaporate off the skin, reducing the chances of steam burns and of fire crews suffering from heat stress.

The 3D construction of our new moisture barrier enables more air to circulate, which is what helps keep firefighters cooler for longer.

The Valiant fabric system

We’ve combined this innovative moisture barrier with a new thermal lining to create the most advanced fabric system on the market. The moisture barrier is available in four of the five fabric system options. The fifth option uses a different, but still advanced, moisture barrier and thermal lining to deliver higher thermal protection with a compromise on breathability, for brigades that value that combination.

Add in 96 different size options, ranging from short to very tall, XS to XXL in both male and female cuts, and fire brigades now have incredible choice in a suit which performs brilliantly.

Valiant – New technologies. New designs. New benchmark.

We’re shaking up the market with our new Valiant structural firefighting suit.

What you need to know about the latest FlamePro thermal lining.

A key part of the fabric system that provides protection to firefighters, the thermal lining is responsible for keeping the heat at bay.

A tricky balancing act between fending off radiant heat and being light enough to keep the suit comfortable, our new thermal lining gets it just right.

Along with every element of the new Valiant structural firefighting suit, the choice of thermal lining was carefully considered by the New Product Development team. With little change in the technical fabrics in structural suits in more than a decade, we wanted to take a giant leap forward with the system we created.

Technical fabrics expert Stanley Russell led the search for a lining that would do justice to our quest to design the very best.

A new approach to the fire suit’s thermal lining layer.

The thermal lining’s primary purpose is to increase heat protection and is the component that usually adds the most weight and bulk to a structural firefighting suit.

Most of the current linings are a combination of woven fabric, quilted to spun lace or needle felt, with both fabrics being 100% aramids or aramid blends.

What this creates is a bulky layer with high thermal resistance properties, but it will also provide only moderate breathability, lower comfort levels due to its weight, and could trap moisture, which would increase the chances of a firefighter getting heat stress.

We wanted to create a revolutionary new thermal lining layer that reduces bulk, increases breathability but still provides excellent thermal protection.

The FlamePro New Product Development team worked with one of the world’s leading manufacturers to create our new thermal lining.

It’s made of a 3D woven structure that combines aramid and viscose to create a fabric with market-leading breathability, superior moisture transportation to keep moisture away from the skin, and great thermal performance without being bulky.

We like to think of it as the Goldilocks of thermal linings – not too heavy, not too little heat protection, but just right.

The Valiant fabric system

We’ve combined this innovative thermal lining with a brand new moisture barrier to create the most advanced fabric system on the market in three of the five garment system choices you have for Valiant.

Add in 96 different size and fit options, ranging from short to very tall, XS to XXL in both male and female cuts, and fire brigades now have incredible choice from a suit which performs brilliantly.

Valiant – New technologies. New designs. New benchmark.

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