The Sentric Safety Group is a global leader in industrial safety solutions and is part of Halma plc. United under one vision, the Sentric Safety Group brings together the world’s leading safety solutions brands – Castell, Kirk, STI, Salvo, and Zonegreen – to deliver trusted, long-term protection for people, productivity, and business reputation. Through its Salvo brand, the group safeguards loading bay operations worldwide, ensuring safety in the most demanding and high-risk environments. Guided by a culture of safety without compromise, the Sentric Safety Group continues to advance workplace protection across multiple industries through engineering expertise, innovation, and forward-thinking design.
Global Product & Marketing Director at The Sentric Safety Group
Noelia Castillon, Global Product & Marketing Director at The Sentric Safety Group spoke to Warehouse & Logistics News.
What are your best-known products, solutions, and services?
The Sentric Safety Group has earned a long-standing reputation for delivering highly reliable safety solutions that protect people in high-risk environments. Within its portfolio, Salvo is the flagship brand for loading bay safety, offering businesses systems designed to control the movement of vehicles at loading bays safely. The Salvo Loading Bay Safety System Solution ensures that operations follow a controlled, conscious and safe sequence, reducing the risk of accidents, protecting personnel, and giving businesses confidence that their workforce is safeguarded during the loading or unloading process.
Salvo’s approach uses robust mechanical engineering for a solution that mitigates human error. Its systems are designed to integrate seamlessly with warehouse workflows, allowing logistics operators to maintain high efficiency while keeping safety as a primary focus. Beyond loading bays, the Sentric Safety Group’s other brands provide highly specialised solutions: Castell, Kirk, and STI offer trapped key interlock systems that prevent unsafe access in industrial and energy-specific facilities, while Zonegreen provides advanced rail depot protection solutions. Together under the Sentric Safety Group name, these brands create a comprehensive safety ecosystem across multiple sectors.
In addition to the technology itself, the Sentric Safety Group places a strong emphasis on supporting customers through custom solution design, installation support, and ongoing maintenance, ensuring the systems perform optimally over their lifetime. This combination of innovation, expertise, and service has helped the group become a trusted partner for businesses worldwide.
How do you think the logistics and supply chain sector is performing at the moment?
The loading bay, logistics, and supply chain sector is undergoing rapid transformation. The growth of e-commerce has dramatically increased the volume of goods moving through warehouses and distribution centres. Alongside this, customer expectations for faster delivery times have placed pressure on operators to optimise both efficiency and safety simultaneously. Heightened regulatory requirements and safety standards have also increased the need for robust and reliable solutions to mitigate workplace risk.
These factors have driven the adoption of more sophisticated safety systems. Salvo is particularly well-positioned to address this: our innovation in loading bay safety engineering and design is helping to ensure that as warehouses and distribution centres evolve to meet today’s e-commerce needs, safety remains uncompromised.
Operators are also increasingly aware that investing in reliable safety systems reduces operational risk, prevents costly downtime and protects their reputation. As a result, loading bay safety is now recognised as a critical enabler of operational efficiency, rather than simply a cost, providing both safety and business continuity.
How many markets are you in, and what is your biggest market?
The Sentric Safety Group operates on a global scale, with a presence across Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Salvo products are trusted by some of the world’s leading logistics, retail, and manufacturing companies, ensuring high safety standards in some of the busiest loading environments globally.
The UK remains one of the largest and most established markets for the group. This is due in part to the long heritage of the Castell brand in the UK, which was founded in 1922, and the high level of safety awareness within the region. The UK market also provides a rigorous testing ground for new safety solutions, helping the group refine systems before broader international deployment.
At the same time, international demand continues to grow, particularly in regions where warehouse automation and e-commerce are expanding rapidly. Companies across multiple sectors are seeking proven solutions to protect people and assets, ensuring compliance with evolving safety regulations. This global presence allows Sentric and Salvo to leverage experience from diverse operational environments, ensuring solutions remain relevant, adaptable, and trusted in every market.
What are your most recent product innovations?
While full details cannot yet be shared, Salvo is preparing to launch two exciting new products. These have been developed in close collaboration with customers, reflecting a deep understanding of real-world operational challenges in loading bays and warehouses.
The forthcoming products are designed to deliver smarter, more adaptable protection for logistics teams, helping operators maintain high safety standards without compromising efficiency. These innovations are not only focused on accident prevention but also aim to enhance operational workflow, integrating seamlessly into complex distribution environments.
Although specifics are confidential at this stage, the upcoming additions demonstrate Salvo’s ongoing commitment to continuous innovation and leadership in loading bay safety. By combining customer insights with engineering expertise, these products represent the next evolution of solutions that protect people while supporting efficient business operations.
Stay tuned to our LinkedIn pages to learn more about these upcoming product launches.
What sets Salvo apart from other loading bay safety brands on the market?
Salvo stands apart for its unwavering commitment to safety and its ability to draw on the century-long expertise of other brands in the group, such as Castell. Unlike standalone brands, Salvo benefits from being part of a family of trusted safety solutions, including Castell in the UK, Kirk in the US, STI in France, and Zonegreen in Sheffield, UK.
This breadth of experience gives Salvo exposure to diverse operational environments, complex safety challenges, and global regulatory requirements, which informs the design of systems that are robust, adaptable, and future-ready. By leveraging this collective knowledge, Salvo delivers loading bay safety solutions that minimise human error, integrate seamlessly into operations, and provide measurable protection.
In addition, Salvo’s solutions are designed with flexibility and scalability in mind, enabling businesses of different sizes to adopt systems tailored to their specific requirements. The combination of engineering excellence, operational insight, and global expertise allows Salvo to offer solutions that competitors cannot easily replicate, giving customers confidence that their workforce is fully protected.
How future-proof and flexible are your solutions?
Salvo’s Loading Bay Safety System Solutions are engineered for long-term adaptability. Their modular construction allows them to integrate with evolving technologies, facility layouts, and operational processes, ensuring continued effectiveness even as operational requirements change.
The upcoming product launches will continue this philosophy, offering flexible, modular, and scalable solutions capable of growing alongside customer operations. What’s more, our new products will integrate fully and seamlessly with current Salvo Loading Bay solution setups. By combining proven engineering with intelligent design, Salvo always ensures its systems remain relevant and effective in increasingly automated and complex warehouse environments.
This approach provides long-term value and regulatory compliance, allowing businesses to invest confidently in safety systems that will continue to deliver protection and efficiency well into the future. By remaining adaptable, Salvo can help businesses manage evolving operational risks while safeguarding employees and maintaining business reputation and continuity.
SENTRIC SAFETY GROUP
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