Very proud  announcement...

​As well as winning the 2019 Tomorrow's Health & Safety Silver Award against strong competition from many large organisations, we are absolutely thrilled to announce GripHero are *Double WINNERS*  for both the:

APEA 2019 "Environmental Protection & Improvement"
and the
APEA 2019 "Innovation" Awards

We are both ecstatic and humbled to receive such high industry recognition and to win such prestigious accolades. We have proven the products globally in industry, with forecourts all across the globe benefiting from a transformation to their health, safety and environmental practices. A huge thank you to all for the recognition of this.

Let's start with 'why?'

In everything we do at GripHero Ltd, we aim to provide mutual benefit for both the forecourt retailers and their customers.

Forecourts have many dangers known to their customers and the public, and so GripHero have developed a multi-award-winning product enabling forecourts to demonstrate best-practice in customer protection, static-safety and environmental efficiency...

1)  Customer protection 
PROBLEM: Have your forecourts forgotten they are one of the most dangerously contaminated and unhygienic public areas?
ISSUE: Customer protection and safety is a key concern.
REASON: Forecourts should consider the implications of lawsuit and litigation proceedings (and issues with insurance cover) from members of the public contracting what could be considered to be common (but notifiable) viral infections such as flu (or worse) from gripping your fuel nozzle handles, and then suing your forecourts. 
SOLUTION: GripHero's multi-award-winning dispensers put customer protection at the exact point of fuel delivery. Your forecourts now demonstrate best-practice to customer protection.

2)  Static-safety 
PROBLEM: Have your forecourts forgotten they are the only potentially explosive areas that the public are allowed to access and operate highly flammable and explosive substances?
ISSUE: Static and fire safety is a key concern.
REASON: Forecourts should consider the implications of lawsuits and issues with insurance cover from static-induced flash fires caused by non-ATEX-certified disposable gloves being dispensed and used in the fuelling zone.
SOLUTION: GripHero's multi-award-winning hand-protection is Anti-Static and ATEX-Certified for safe use in the fuelling zone. Your forecourts now comply with their ATEX-Directive for potentially explosive areas, and now demonstrate best-practice to customer, public and facility safety.

3)  Environmental efficiency 
PROBLEM: Have your forecourts forgotten they are are one of the most wasteful and littering public areas of single-use plastics.
ISSUE: Animal and child safety is a key concern.
REASON: Forecourts should consider the implications of their plastic glove litter blowing onto neighbouring property and causing harm to pets, livestock and even young children who may attempt to ingest the plastic. We know many forecourts who used to have daily litter pick-ups from neighbouring properties because livestock within a 3/4-mile radius were eating their littered disposable gloves. 
SOLUTION: GripHero's multi-award-winning dispensers are globally proven in industry to be exceptionally efficient and world-class-leading in their ability to prevent unnecessary waste and litter. Your forecourts now dramatically reduce their consumption of single-use-plastics and their carbon footprint, now preventing dispenser litter causing danger to neighbouring property.

How?

GripHero reduces waste... there's no excuse for unnecessary waste. GripHero makes it easy to retrieve just one piece at a time. Forecourts experience an average reduction in plastic hand-protection consumption of over 55%. This average continues to grow.

GripHero stops plastic glove litter... there's no excuse for unnecessary littering. We all know forecourts are often snowing with disposable glove litter whenever there's a strong breeze. It's hardly surprising given that attempting to retrieve one glove often dislodges ten more - ready to be blown into the environment the next time a customer attempts to take one, or there's a slight breeze. Using GripHero, forecourts have ended their daily litter collection from neighbouring properties and fields.

Highly efficient production methods... the production of GripHero is exceptionally efficient, producing no plastic waste or off-cuts in its production cycle. GripHero also uses a fraction of the packaging of standard hand-protection, dramatically reducing your use of card-based materials. Thanks to our highly specialist cartridge winding processes, the cartridge can be produced and packed with almost no air, requiring only a fraction of the space needed to transport standard hand-protection, using far fewer trucks in its journey to your forecourts.

GripHero uses the right materials... As a minimum the plastics used must be totally recyclable (it's wrong that the majority of existing 'cheap' hand-protection is not). For those that would like to go the extra mile, an oxo-biodegradable option is available, and a compostable version is imminent. 

GripHero helps forecourts recycle... GripHero offers the most brightly coloured and stand-out recycling bins to capture used hand-protection for onward recycling (or composting) and help close the loop on the use of plastics. Please ask us for more details. 

GripHero differentiates... forecourts use GripHero as the most prominent and visible way to show care and improve the driver's experience and welfare.

GripHero standardises... why is it always so difficult to locate hand-protection on forecourts? Why do dispensers come in varying type, shape, size and colour? Why are they always in random locations, on the other side of the forecourt or facing the wrong direction? For the level of risk to health, shouldn’t it be standardised and immediately to hand?

GripHero stands-out... showing drivers they can keep their hands clean and know exactly where the hand-protection is before they even enter they forecourt. 

GripHero enables... drivers have quick, clean and hassle-free access to fuel pumps without suffering contamination of the hands.

GripHero makes hygiene easy... the GripHero offers an innovative take on dispensing hand-protection - user friendly, beautifully designed, ergonomically perfect.

GripHero makes forecourt fans... If fuel price is competitive, the next priority for drivers is clean hands. Which forecourt would you choose?

It's win-win for both parties

A bit about the Company

GripHero Ltd was formed to address an everyday problem facing every motorist on the planet when filling up with fuel – dirty, sticky, smelly hands. 

The Company was founded early in 2017 by Oliver Yeo, a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a multi-award-winning background in engineering design and large-scale project management.

Also an enthusiastic motorist, it was during an intense spell of travelling – and hence a great many fill ups at fuel stations – that the real lack of consistency and reliability in the provision of hand-protection was observed. Moreover, it didn't seem right that several gloves could easily be pulled at the same time, nor that the materials used couldn't be recycled.

And so a passionate team embarked on a mission to:
+ reduce unnecessary waste on forecourts;
+ make the protective materials more environmentally friendly;
+ make them Anti-Static and ATEX-certified;
+ and locate easy-to-use dispensers in the most convenient and unmissable position possible.

With so many people in the world gripping the nozzle handles (not lightly touching, but really gripping them), keeping your hands clean at the pumps should be completely convenient to the motorist rather than a burden.

You wouldn’t enter a toilet cubicle to then realise the toilet paper is actually located next to the hand dryers!

Alongside the internationally granted patents, registered designs and trademarks, the GripHero creation has been developed to totally address this problem once and for all.