10.92°F cooler
Run cool under the sun
Average temperature drop versus traditional EPS foam helmets — measured in identical climate conditions.
Heat Stress Engineering
Built to keep your crew 11 Degrees Cooler
Heat doesn’t just feel uncomfortable — it costs you hours, focus, and money. Caco America’s Performance Safety Helmets run an average of 10.92 °F cooler than traditional EPS-foam helmets, engineered with Koroyd® cross-ventilation to keep field crews sharp, safe and on schedule.
ANSI Z89.1 Type II
Koroyd® core
Up to 25% lighter
−2% / °C
Productivity loss for every degree above 24 °C on outdoor crews.
48% less impact
Less energy transfer to the head through the Koroyd® tubular core.
−25% lighter
Lighter than conventional safety helmets — less neck fatigue across long shifts.
ReducingHeat Stress.
48%
Less impact energy transferred to the head, compared to traditional EPS foam.
The Science of Cool
Koroyd®. Not EPS foam. Engineered tubes that breathe.
Where EPS foam densifies and traps heat, Koroyd is 95% air — a welded matrix of micro-tubes that vents heat continuously while absorbing impact at a constant rate. Same shell. Radically different physics.
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33% better impact absorption. Koroyd outperforms EPS in both direct and oblique impact tests by absorbing up to 78% of material thickness — versus 60% in EPS.
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Continuous cross-ventilation. Open-cell tube geometry channels hot air away from the scalp instead of insulating it against the head.
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Visible end-of-life indicator. Koroyd crushes visibly on impact — no guesswork about whether a helmet should be retired from the field.
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Washable, hygienic core. All-Koroyd and plastic construction. Less odor and grime buildup over the life of the helmet.
Why crews trust them
Cooler, lighter, safer — measurably.
Every spec on this page is independently tested. No marketing softening. The numbers that follow are the difference between a crew finishing the shift fresh and a crew slowing down by 3:00 PM.
25% lighter
Built for the long shift
Up to 25% lighter than legacy safety helmets. Less neck fatigue translates directly into longer focused work windows.
48% less impact
Engineered for the unexpected
Koroyd® absorbs energy at a constant rate across its tubular structure — including angled impacts EPS struggles with.
95% air
Designed to breathe
The Koroyd core is 95% air. Hot air rises out instead of being trapped against the scalp like in EPS foam.
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welded tube matrix
95% air
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Crumple. Absorb. Protect.
Koroyd® is an advanced impact technology built from welded tubes. On impact, the tubes crumple instead of springing back — absorbing energy through sacrificial plastic deformation rather than transferring it to the head. The same open-cell architecture that absorbs energy also lets hot air vent freely, so protection and breathability are engineered together.
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Welded tube structure
An engineered core of welded tubes — the world’s thinnest walled — built to perform, not poured to fill space. 95% air by volume.
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Crumple. Absorb. Protect.
On impact, the tubes crumple through sacrificial plastic deformation, using up to 80% of material thickness to absorb energy — versus around 60% for EPS.
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Direct and angled impact protection
True energy absorption — instead of springing back like traditional foams — helps reduce both direct acceleration and the rotational motion linked to head injury.
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Advanced breathability
Open-cell architecture lets hot air escape from the wearer’s head across the full surface of the core, delivering ventilation without compromising protection.
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welded tube matrix
95% air
95%
Open air volume
78%
Thickness used to absorb
33%
More absorption vs EPS
ROI Calculator
Calculate what heat is costing your crew.
Pull the climate, crew size and wage levers. The model returns approximate productivity loss and the dollars you reclaim by switching to a cooler helmet system. Built by Caco America on top of peer-reviewed heat-stress research.
Field-tested research
The white papers behind the numbers.
Everything you need to brief safety officers, project managers and procurement teams. Independent thermal data, impact testing methodology and the heat-stress economics behind the calculator.
White paper · 12 pages
Heat-Reducing Workplace Helmets
The full thermal study: methodology, climate chamber data, and field measurements against EPS-foam baselines.
Download study
Economic model · 8 pages
Cost Savings of Cooler Helmets
Walks through the productivity model that powers our calculator — wage levers, climate variables, real-world inputs.
Download model
Comparison · 6 pages
Koroyd® vs Traditional EPS Foam
Side-by-side analysis of impact absorption, end-of-life detection, ventilation and lifecycle hygiene.
Download comparisonThe Performance Safety Helmet line
Explore the full GH-Line — Type 1 and Type 2, vented and non-vented, plus the accessories that complete the system.
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