General industrial workwear

Industrial coveralls, made to be worn every shift.

RigArmor supplies 100% cotton industrial coveralls in two fabric weights — 175 gsm for hot, humid sites and 270 gsm for heavier work — in sizes M to 5XL and six colours, with reflective tape. There is no minimum order, and we can put your logo on a single unit.

No minimum orderBuy one before you commit to volume
Factory directManaged from Singapore, made in China
Form E supplied0% ASEAN duty instead of 10–30%
Four workers in navy cotton industrial coveralls with reflective tape walking through a shipping container yard at sunset

The basics

What are industrial coveralls actually for?

A coverall is a one-piece garment worn over your own clothes. Its job is simple: keep dirt, oil, dust and abrasion off the wearer, hold the tools they need, and make them visible on a busy site. That is the whole brief.

Most of the work our coveralls go into is exactly that kind of work — a warehouse pick line, a vehicle workshop, a civils crew, an engine room, a food plant. The garment needs to survive industrial laundry, hold its shape through the shift, and not cook the person wearing it in 32°C and 80% humidity.

Cotton handles that better than the polyester blends that dominate the cheap end of this market. It breathes, it takes a wash, and it does not melt against skin the way synthetics can. It is also, as we say plainly further down this page, not flame resistant.

  • Construction and civil works
  • Warehousing and logistics
  • Workshops and vehicle maintenance
  • Marine deck and engine-room work
  • Food and beverage plants
  • Issue kits for manpower agencies

Choosing a fabric weight

175 gsm or 270 gsm — which one does your crew need?

Fabric weight is the single decision that most affects whether a coverall gets worn or gets left in the locker. Heavier is not automatically better in this climate.

Two 100% cotton industrial coveralls side by side, a lighter 175 gsm in steel blue and a heavier 270 gsm in navy, both with reflective tape across the chest
Left: 175 gsm, a thinner and more breathable cotton weave. Right: 270 gsm, a denser twill built for abrasion. Same cut, same reflective tape, same pockets.
175 gsm · Lightweight

For heat, humidity and long shifts

Noticeably cooler to wear. This is the weight to specify when the work is outdoors in the tropics, or indoors somewhere without air conditioning, and the coverall is on for eight hours or more.

  • Warehousing, logistics, food plants
  • Outdoor site work in PH, SG and MY
  • Crews who currently refuse to wear coveralls because of the heat
  • Higher wash frequency, faster drying
270 gsm · Heavy duty

For abrasion, tools and rough handling

Substantially more durable. Specify this when the garment is fighting sharp edges, heavy tools, kneeling on concrete, or an industrial laundry cycle several times a week.

  • Vehicle and plant maintenance
  • Marine deck and engine-room work
  • Civils and structural work
  • Longer service life per garment

Not sure? Order one of each. There is no minimum, so a crew can wear both for a fortnight and tell you which one they will actually keep on.

Straight answers

Where these coveralls should not be worn

Our coveralls are 100% cotton and carry no flame-resistance certification. We would rather be precise about that here than have you find out at a site gate.

Right for general industrial work

Everyday workwear on sites that do not require certified flame-resistant, welding or arc-flash protection — warehousing, logistics, workshops, construction, marine deck work, food and beverage.

Wrong for heat, flame and arc-flash environments

Do not specify these for refineries, petrochemical plants, upstream oil and gas, welding or hot work, or any site where an arc-flash risk assessment applies. Those sites need garments certified to EN ISO 11612, NFPA 2112 or ISO 11611, and a cotton coverall will be turned away at the gate.

We would rather lose the order than put your crew in the wrong garment.

We are currently qualifying FR fabric with our mill. If that is what your site enforces, tell us which standard applies and we will come back to you when the test reports are in our hands — not before.

Landed cost

What a coverall actually costs to land in Manila or Kuala Lumpur

The per-piece price is the number everyone quotes. It is not the number you pay. Here is what sits between the factory price and your cost per garment on site.

01

The factory price

What the garment costs to cut and sew. Buying through an importer, a distributor and a local reseller stacks a margin at each step before you ever see a quote.

02

Import duty

Garments imported into ASEAN countries from China ordinarily attract duty in the 10–30% band. On a container of coveralls that is a serious number, and it is usually invisible in a per-piece quote.

03

Form E

Every RigArmor shipment carries a Form E certificate of origin under the ASEAN–China Free Trade Area. With it, qualifying ASEAN buyers clear customs at 0% duty rather than the standard rate.

04

Freight and service life

Sea freight is standard, air freight is available on request. Then divide by how many months the garment lasts — a cheap coverall replaced twice a year is not cheap.

Duty treatment depends on your own import classification and on the paperwork being right, so confirm the rate with your customs broker. What we can tell you is that the Form E leaves our factory with every consignment.

Branding

Most suppliers in this region will happily brand your workwear — once you commit to a run. Twenty pieces at the low end, three hundred at the high end. That is fine if you already know the garment fits your crew. It is a problem if you don't.

We apply custom logos from a single unit. Chest, back, sleeve, or all three. You approve a sample before production starts, and we hold that approved sample on file so the reorder in eighteen months matches the one your supervisor signed off today.

Colour, sizing breakdown, logo placement and pocket configuration are all settled before the line runs. Because we are dealing with the factory directly rather than relaying through a distributor, changing one of those is a conversation, not a change order.

Close-up of a navy cotton coverall chest showing a blank embroidered patch ready for a custom logo, a bar-tacked chest pocket and reflective tape

Common questions

Questions buyers ask us about industrial coveralls

Are cotton coveralls fire resistant?

No. Cotton is a plant fibre and it burns. Untreated 100% cotton coveralls — ours included — offer no flame-resistance protection and carry no FR certification. Flame-resistant garments are either made from inherently FR fibres or chemically treated, and they are tested and certified to a named standard such as EN ISO 11612 or NFPA 2112. If a supplier describes plain cotton as flame resistant, ask them for the test report.

What is the difference between coveralls and overalls?

Coveralls are a full one-piece garment with sleeves that covers you from ankle to neck, worn over your own clothes. Overalls, sometimes called bib-and-brace, are trousers with a bib and shoulder straps and no sleeves. In industrial settings across Southeast Asia the term "coveralls" — often written "cover alls" — almost always means the full-sleeve one-piece.

What is the minimum order for custom industrial workwear?

Ours is one unit, including with a custom logo. That is unusual: most suppliers in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines set a minimum of 20 to 300 pieces for branded workwear. Volume pricing starts at 100 units, but you are welcome to buy a single coverall first and put it on a real crew member before you commit.

Which coverall weight is right for tropical conditions?

175 gsm, in most cases. It is meaningfully cooler over a long shift, which matters more than people expect — the most durable coverall in the world protects nobody if the crew takes it off at eleven in the morning. Choose 270 gsm where abrasion, tools or heavy laundry cycles are the bigger problem.

Do you supply to the Philippines and Malaysia?

Yes. We supply crews in the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia. Sea freight is standard and air freight is available on request. Every consignment carries a Form E certificate of origin so qualifying ASEAN buyers clear customs at 0% duty instead of the standard 10–30% band.

Who is behind RigArmor?

RigArmor is the industrial workwear brand of Katch Pte Ltd, a Singapore-registered company, UEN 202006742C, at 11 Woodlands Close, #08-20, Woodlands 11, Singapore 737853. We manage your account from Singapore and manufacture through our production partner in China. There is more detail on our about page.

Tell us the crew, we'll quote the coveralls.

Quantity, sizes, colours, fabric weight and whether you want your logo on it. We will come back with a per-piece price and an estimated delivery date.