Vacuum Packing
Protect your investment and maximize the service life of your immersion suits with professional vacuum packing from Hansen Protection. Available for both new suits and suits serviced at our authorized service station, vacuum packing provides superior protection during storage and transport while significantly reducing the space required onboard.
Benefits of Vacuum packing
Hansen Protection vacuum packed and factory sealed immersion suits can save you up to 30% of normal service costs!
SOLAS regulations require suits 10 years old or more to be serviced more frequently. Frequent servicing means more service charges, more transport costs, and added logistics challenges.
Hansen Protection offers factory vacuum packing for most of our emergency immersion suits. Vacuum packing extends the life of the suits, saves space, and ensures suits are always in perfect condition and ready for use.
Based on manufacturers' recommendations, vacuum packing lowers the mandatory service interval, simplifying service logistics, lowering costs, and increasing safety and security. Download our Instructions for inspection and service of vacuum packed immersion and abandonment suits below:
For immersion suits without light
General service interval for suits without emergency light packed in vacuum is 10 years.**
Suits without built-in buoyancy need separate lifejackets that have approved emergency light.
Examples: SeaPass and SeaEco emergency immersion suits.
| Service interval | Up to 10 years | 10 years or more |
|---|---|---|
| Not vacuum packed | Minimum every 3rd year | More often than every 3rd year |
| Vacuum packed* | 10 years | Every 10th year, possibly more frequent** |
For immersion suits with light
General service interval for suits with emergency light packed in vacuum is 5 years.**
Suits with built-in buoyancy must be fitted with approved emergency light, and this light's battery expires within 5 years.
Examples: SeaEco+, SeaNordic, SeaArctic, and E307 III emergency immersion suits.
| Service interval | Up to 10 years | 10 years or more |
|---|---|---|
| Not vacuum packed | Minimum every 3rd year | More often than every 3rd year |
| Vacuum packed* | 5 years | Every 5th year, possibly more frequent** |
*) Interval dependent on unbroken vacuum sealing.
**) The Service Station will perform an individual evaluation of the suit's status, whether it will be granted a full 5- or 10-year interval, a reduced interval, or rejected.
