WHO ARE WE?
RealPPE is Africa’s first trusted B2B multi-vendor marketplace for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), workwear, and smart safety solutions. Our platform connects verified suppliers with buyers in high-risk industries such as construction, mining, manufacturing, and healthcare.
We offer a wide range of certified products including general PPE, inclusive women’s workwear under our HerPPE category, and
emerging smart protection technologies like wearables and tracking devices. In addition to streamlining procurement, RealPPE
provides supplier onboarding, compliance tracking, and a digital solution that ensures transparency, product authenticity, and efficient order fulfilment.
Why We Exist?
Every day, workers risk their lives with counterfeit PPE and poorly designed workwear, while businesses struggle with inflated costs and fragmented procurement systems. RealPPE stands out by combining industry-specific expertise with digital innovation in a sector that has traditionally relied on fragmented, manual supply chains.
We are the first marketplace in Africa focused on inclusive PPE, smart safety technology, and a circular economy model for PPE procurement and recycling. Our HerPPE catalogue ensures women in trades have access to properly designed safety gear, and we are working towards launching a Recycling-as-a-Service model to reduce waste and support ESG goals. By offering verified products, promoting local manufacturers, and enabling data-driven procurement, we make safety more accessible, ethical, and future-ready.
Vision
To be Africa’s most trusted B2B marketplace for inclusive, high-quality, and future- ready personal protective equipment, workwear, and smart safety solutions — empowering safer, more sustainable workplaces across the continent.
Mission
To simplify and modernise PPE and workwear procurement by connecting businesses in construction, mining, manufacturing, healthcare, and beyond with vetted suppliers through a transparent, digital platform — offering certified products, inclusive HerPPE ranges, and smart safety innovations, while paving the way toward a circular economy.
Our SDG GOALS
What People Say About Us
Roelf P
Customers
“RealPPE Marketplace has been a breath of fresh, after running around I’m so happy to have found this site”
Nadia M
Customers
I’ve been struggling to find real buyers for my suppliers. My friend told me about RealPPE Marketplace and I’m so happy I found this website.
James S
Customers
I got so tired of suppliers looking for my personal details like proof of funds/ BCL and not delivering. I’m so glad that the RealPPE Marketplace offers me 100% refund if seller does not deliver.
Jabulani K
Customers
I can’t believe I found RealPPE. What I’ve been looking for all this time