ProTech Plus®: Better Protection, Better Comfort, and Better Value for Nuclear Worksites
In the nuclear industry, protective clothing must do more than provide a barrier. It must remain comfortable during demanding work, withstand repeated laundering, support contamination-control practices, and deliver dependable value throughout its service life. ProTech Plus® was engineered to meet that challenge.
As the flagship garment in UniTech’s proven protective clothing line, ProTech Plus combines advanced textile construction, IMPASSE® finishing, precision tailoring, and practical design features. The result is a durable, reusable garment developed specifically around the evolving needs of nuclear facilities and the people who work in them.
The Best Gets Better
ProTech Plus builds on the established performance of ProTech with textile enhancements designed to improve barrier performance, durability, cleanliness, and control in demanding work environments.
New Weave Technology
An improved weave gives ProTech Plus greater strength and enhanced barrier performance. Its high-quality micro-denier synthetic yarns create a strong, tightly constructed fabric capable of standing up to arduous nuclear work environments without sacrificing flexibility or comfort.
Advanced Water and Oil Repellency
ProTech Plus uses a fluoroalkyl ether treatment designed to repel water and oils. Unlike a finish that simply disappears after repeated laundering, the garment’s water-repellent performance is regenerated during the cleaning process, helping preserve its functional benefits over multiple uses.
Antimicrobial Treatment
Reusable protective clothing must perform through repeated wear and cleaning cycles. ProTech Plus includes an antimicrobial treatment that helps minimize bacteria-caused odors and mildew agents, supporting a cleaner, more professional protective clothing program.
Improved Anti-Static Properties
An improved carbon filament helps prevent static-charge buildup. This reduces the attraction of particles and radon while supporting more effective contamination-control practices in appropriate nuclear work applications. Product literature also notes that the garment’s anti-static construction helps reduce tribocharging and the potential for electrostatic-discharge damage when properly grounded.
Better Protection Without Unnecessary Bulk
Protective performance should not require workers to wear a heavy, stiff, or restrictive garment.
ProTech Plus uses micro-denier synthetic yarns to provide a high-quality barrier combined with exceptional fabric strength. The garment is designed to resist the physical demands of industrial nuclear work while remaining lightweight and supple enough for workers to move comfortably.
Its strength and barrier characteristics make ProTech Plus a practical choice for facilities seeking a reusable anti-contamination garment that can perform reliably through routine work, outages, maintenance activities, and other controlled-environment applications.
Important: ProTech Plus is protective clothing intended to support contamination control. It should not be represented as shielding against ionizing radiation. Garment selection must always be based on the facility’s radiological controls, hazard assessment, approved procedures, and required PPE ensemble.
Better Comfort for the People Doing the Work
Comfort is more than a convenience. When nuclear workers perform physical tasks in protective clothing, the thermal burden created by that clothing becomes an important part of heat-stress planning.
The EPRI heat-stress-management program identified clothing, work demands, and environmental conditions as important factors in evaluating heat stress at nuclear power plants.
ProTech Plus was designed with those realities in mind. Its lightweight, supple fabric offers excellent air permeability with virtually no insulative or vapor resistance. UniTech’s published product information states that workers prefer ProTech by a four-to-one margin and cites EPRI NP-4453-L as assigning ProTech a 0% clothing adjustment factor. [
The fabric is only part of the comfort story. Precise tailoring helps provide correctly graded sizes without the pinching associated with garments that are too tight or the ballooning and excess material created by garments that are too large. Passive built-in venting further supports airflow and helps reduce the discomfort associated with heat buildup.
The result is a garment that workers can wear more comfortably while bending, climbing, reaching, kneeling, and completing other physically demanding tasks.
A Reusable Garment Designed for Long-Term Economy
An effective protective clothing program must manage more than the initial purchase price. Facilities also need to consider garment life, laundering performance, radiological reject rates, replacement frequency, waste generation, and the total cost per use.
EPRI’s Guide to Managing Nuclear Utility Protective Clothing Programs, published as report NP-7309 in May 1991, was developed to help nuclear facilities plan and manage protective clothing programs while addressing their operational and economic impacts. The report formalized many of the planning and cost factors associated with professionally managed nuclear protective clothing programs.
UniTech’s ProTech Plus product information cites EPRI guidance indicating that 200 to 300 uses may be achievable with launderable garments. Actual garment life will naturally depend on the application, exposure conditions, inspection criteria, cleaning history, repair practices, and each facility’s radiological controls.
ProTech Plus supports cost-per-use performance through:
- Exceptional abrasion resistance
- Low radiological reject rates
- Regenerative water- and oil-repellent treatment
- Strong micro-denier synthetic construction
- Reusable, professionally launderable design
- Extended service-life potential under properly managed conditions
For facilities comparing reusable garments with single-use alternatives, those characteristics can translate into fewer replacements, less clothing waste, and a stronger return across the garment lifecycle.
Faster Size Identification with ColorSized™
Even a high-performing garment must be easy to deploy.
UniTech’s ColorSized™ program simplifies garment selection in controlled-side change rooms. ProTech Plus coveralls use distinct, colorfast piping on the collars so workers can identify the correct garment size more quickly. The piping coordinates with UniTech’s sizing standard for compatible rubber gloves and shoe covers, helping create a more intuitive dress-out process.
This straightforward visual system can reduce time spent searching through garment inventory and make it easier for workers to select properly sized protective clothing. Correct fit also supports the comfort and mobility benefits built into the ProTech Plus design.
Complete Your Protective Clothing Program
ProTech Plus is available as more than a coverall. Matching hoods and caps are also offered, allowing facilities to build a coordinated protective clothing system around their operating procedures and site-specific requirements.
Whether your priority is worker comfort, garment durability, contamination control, program economics, or all four, ProTech Plus provides a proven reusable solution developed for nuclear industry applications.
Protection, Comfort, and Economy—Without Compromise
Nuclear protective clothing should not force facilities to choose between performance and comfort—or between quality and economy.
With advanced weave technology, regenerative water and oil repellency, antimicrobial treatment, improved anti-static properties, micro-denier yarn construction, passive venting, precise tailoring, and long-term reuse potential, ProTech Plus delivers the balanced performance modern nuclear workforces demand.
Ready to Put ProTech Plus to Work?
Explore ProTech Plus coveralls, hoods, caps, and compatible protective wear for your facility. Contact your UniTech representative to discuss sizing, garment program requirements, product availability, or a sample.
Better protection. Better comfort. Better economy. That’s ProTech Plus®.
