Fristads inks four-year deal to outfit Norsk Scania with sustainable workwear

Fristads signed a four-year agreement to supply Norsk Scania AS with a complete range of workwear, the company announced in a press release dated Feb 18. The contract covers uniforms and functional garments tailored to Scania’s operational needs and affects about 1,350 employees across 45 locations, including roughly 950 mechanics and customer-facing staff.

The collection leans hard into Fristads’ sustainability toolkit: the company highlights Fristads Green products and calls the new offering an environmentally declared or environmentally certified collection. Fristads positions this bespoke rollout as its largest to date for a specially adapted environmentally declared collection; Frida Avasalu, Global Solutions Director at Fristads, called the agreement “a great leap forward for Fristads and our continuous effort to reduce the environmental impact of workwear.”

Fristads published Environmental Product Declaration identifiers for ten garment types tied to the Scania contract: sweatshirt S-P-07629, short-sleeved T-shirt S-P-07630, long-sleeved T-shirt S-P-07632, polo shirt S-P-07633, male trousers S-P-07634, male trousers with hang pockets S-P-07635, women’s trousers S-P-07636, women’s trousers with hang pockets S-P-07637, male shorts S-P-07638, and women’s shorts S-P-07639. Those EPD codes are listed in Fristads’ newsroom materials as part of the environmentally declared collection.

Fristads frames the deal as the “next step in a long-term partnership” with Scania, noting the agreement builds on successful collaboration in several other countries. Fristads’ LinkedIn post emphasized functional solutions for both workshop staff and other professional groups and spelled out operational expectations: with approximately 1,350 employees across 45 locations, “high demands are placed on quality, safety, and availability in the product range.”

The announcement also links the workwear brief to changing workshop environments: Fristads wrote that it expects the program to “contribute to safer working days and more sustainable solutions within service and maintenance – not least in connection with gas and electric vehicles.” That line positions the collection as responsive to the specific risks and workflows tied to alternative-fuel and electrified service work at Scania locations.

Several practical details remain undisclosed in Fristads’ materials: the press release and LinkedIn post do not include contract value, committed volumes, a firm delivery start date, logistics or distribution plans for the 45 locations, nor any statement from Norsk Scania AS. The company also does not specify which Fristads Green products beyond the EPD-listed garments are included, or whether any items meet named PPE or EN safety standards.

Frida Avasalu framed the deal as strategic and ambitious: “Scania is one of our most important customers and the largest customer to date to receive a tailormade environmentally declared collection from Fristads. Together, we can and want to be changemakers for sustainability.” For workwear watchers, the scale — 1,350 people across 45 sites — and the explicit EPD rollout make this less a routine uniform contract and more a test of whether sustainably declared workwear can be delivered at fleet scale.