Welding Curtains & Screens: A Tusker Guide

10 March 2025

Welding Curtains – Your Barrier for Protection & Safety

If you want to protect the safety of you and your work colleagues from the heat, sparks, fumes, and UV light from welding, Welding Curtains, also known as Welding Screens, offer the perfect solution. By investing in these protective barriers, you can create an enclosed space for you to safely complete all of your welding work.

Not only do these screens shield bystanders and protect them from harm, such as burns or eye injuries from welding arcs, but they also minimise noise levels and create a contained environment for harmful fumes and chemicals.

Industries That Benefit from Welding Curtains

Designed to enhance protection in welding and manufacturing environments, Welding Curtains, Screens, and Tents are essential safety solutions for welding processes or where sound reduction is required. Their versatility makes them indispensable across a wide array of industries, including:

Automotive

When working on automotive vehicles, whether for manufacturing, enhancements, or repairs on cars, motorcycles, or vans, welding curtains safeguard your workers from harmful sparks and UV radiation.

You may also benefit from leather protective clothing (PPE), such as aprons, chaps, and jackets, in addition to welding blankets, high-temperature fabrics, and welding equipment, including controlled cooling and thermal insulation materials, radiant heat protection, spark protection, and high-temperature welding and grinding blankets.

Aviation

If your work involves aviation, such as aeroplanes, helicopters, or jets, these screens ensure safety during critical maintenance, manufacturing, and welding processes for the aerospace industry and aviation safety field projects.

Plus, don’t forget your leather, aluminised, and proban protective clothing, along with welding blankets and equipment.

Heavy Machinery

Both for the manufacturing process and in-field repairs, our welding screen systems will shield your operators from sparks and debris when working with heavy machinery and equipment. Comprehensive safety solutions also include welding blankets, industrial machine covers and fabrics, PPE protective clothing, and more.

Mining

In challenging conditions, like mining, using welding curtains, along with appropriate PPE and safety products, such as fire blankets or welding cushions,  helps create safe work zones. This approach ensures compliance with safety requirements by providing improved visibility and protection against abrasion, radiant heat, sparks, and spatter. These measures are particularly important in applications, such as smelting and fire assay, where there is a risk of UV exposure and thermal stress.

Railways

During repairs and welding operations for railways, we can offer safety solutions to protect your workers. In addition to welding curtains, these solutions include work shelters, portable shelters, welding umbrellas, manhole covers, railway PPE protective clothing, welding frames, kneeling cushions, welding blankets, machine covers, fire retardant tarps, and more to suit a wide range of applications.

Non-Welding Applications

Beyond welding applications, these curtains excel in non-traditional uses, including x-ray shielding, dust containment, and radiation protection in medical facilities and airport security areas. What’s more, we provide flame-retardant curtain solutions in both standard and custom sizes to meet the unique needs of various environments, such as theatres and exhibition centres. Other industries include:

Warehousing

In busy warehouse environments, our screens and curtains will enhance the safety of your workplace by effectively dealing with temperature control, dust, and partitioning for environmental separation and easy access. As an energy-saving solution, a variety of warehouse curtains are available to suit your needs, keeping areas insulated or cool.

Food Manufacturing

For those who work in the food manufacturing industries, curtains and screens allow you to maintain hygiene whilst protecting your employees from hazardous environments. They are ideal for resolving issues, such as odour containment, cross-contamination, and dust control.

Our Welding & Non-Welding Curtain Products

Our comprehensive range of welding curtains includes:

• Hi-Vis Amber Welding PVC: Translucent material with a high degree of visibility.
• Ultra Low-Vis Welding PVC: Very dark green, extra-strength, matte PVC with no visibility.
• Safearc Amber & Bronze Welding PVC: Reinforced material with some visibility.
• Tusker Weld Green Welding PVC: Green PVC with low visibility.
• Heavy Duty Canvas: Waterproof and rot-proof.
• Neoprene Coated Fibreglass: Designed for heavy-duty welding and grinding applications.
• Strip Curtaining: Flame-retardant, flexible, and capable of withstanding repeated contact with forklifts, pallet trucks, and equipment.

Our non-welding curtain options for spray booths, dust protection, partitioning, and food processing include:

• Glass-Clear PVC: Provides complete visibility.
• Glass-Clear Reinforced PVC: Offers extra strength.
• X-Ray Curtains: Designed for medical environments or airports and available in 0.25mm or 0.50mm lead, with all frames and fixing options.
• Stage Curtains: Fire-retardant, including drapes and decorative components, and designed for theatres or exhibition centres.

If you want to learn more about our extensive range of modular or stand-alone heavy-duty welding screens, folding, economy, hinged, or portable welding screens, welding or manhole tents, welding umbrellas, and more, click on the link here.

Welding Curtains, Screens & Tents by Tusker Industrial Safety

At Tusker, we design and manufacture a wide range of fire-retardant mobile Tusker Guardian Welding Screens, Welding Curtains, Welding Frames, and Welding Tents, alongside a comprehensive selection of industrial partitioning solutions and PVC strip curtains. To provide you with flexibility, we can produce Welding Screens and Tents in various materials, including PVC and canvas.

In addition to our off-the-shelf solutions, we offer a bespoke service that is tailored to your individual requirements. All our products are manufactured in our UK-based facility to the highest standards and comply with all current European regulations.

Contact us today to discuss your Welding Curtain, Screen, or Tent requirements.

Written By Tusker Industrial Safety