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SHOWA only domestic manufacturer of Nitrile, single-use PPE gloves; expanded Alabama facility capacity reduces U.S. reliance on overseas suppliers

Due to the onset and rapid transmission rates of the "Wuhan" Coronavirus, officially labeled COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), SHOWA has been receiving numerous technical inquiries r...

Synergistic partnership with Malaysia-based Riverstone will facilitate resource-sharing and technology transfer to raise the level of innovation and development of high-tech glove products

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SHOWA takes next step in its sustainability commitment and expands its biodegradable product range. Launched across the globe, SHOWA’s Eco Best Technology® gloves offer the same protection, perfor...

SHOWA responds to the medium-low cut risk glove market challenges with a first-in-its-history consolidated series of seven cut C/A3 gloves. Launched across the globe, SHOWA’s new DURACoil glove ra...

In November 2016, the standards for testing against mechanical risks were updated when the market saw a drastic need for improvement in the assessment of personal protective equipment. Since then, ...

The inventors of the world’s first biodegradable single use nitrile glove now bring you a new addition to their biodegradable hand protection range: SHOWA 707HVO – a chemical resistant glove engin...

ChemRest.com was launched by SHOWA in 2001 as the world’s first online chemical glove directory – a platform where workers or safety managers could check whether their gloves were really protectin...

Following the success of the ¾ nitrile-coated S-TEX 376 glove, SHOWA proudly launches the fully-coated S-TEX 377 version as a new addition to their premium cut-resistant S-TEX range. 

The glove has ...

SHOWA is unveiling its latest award-winning innovation, the SHOWA 4561 glove.

The new SHOWA 4561 is made in the USA and boasts high cut-resistant 15 gauge Kevlar® construction, at an extremely comp...

Injuries to hands and fingers are the most frequent reportable accidents, almost 50% according to database of companies working in the oil and gas sector.  More specifically the incidents taking pl...

Research shows that our bodies carry and shed an alarming amount of bacteria; our hands alone are estimated to host around 9 million bacteria! With over 4.25 million people employed in the Europea...

N-DEX® was the first family of low-modulus nitrile, single use gloves. This ground breaking innovation was commercialised by Best Manufacturing Company in 1991. Thus solving the human allergy to na...

The European Directive 89/686/EEC on PPE is in process of being superseded by a new PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425, introducing revisions on test methods such as the EN 388 for cut performance. The ...

Having fully understood the risks and constraints of working in negative (-0°) and positive (+0°) cold temperatures, the introduction of the TEMRES 282 and NITRILE FOAM 477 gloves were driven by m...

 In 2011, official figures (1) highlight an increase of work accident and lost time among the 19 million workers:

• 670,000: Total of all lost-time accidents (+1.8% vs 2010)
• 38,368,115: Number of lost...

‘Construction sector’ refers to both the construction of buildings and civil engineering works, so it is an essential part of our economic and social life. Every day, millions of people working in ...