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Groundbreaking Ceremony featuring Guatemala President, Japanese Ambassador to Guatemala; Extends Global Investments in Production to Meet Customer Demand

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Facility safety managers already faced a complex and ever-changing landscape of potential emergencies and disasters to prepare for before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Today, managers and professsi...

September 29, 2020 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

By: Richard Heppell, President & COO of SHOWA Group

COVID-19 has forced people on the frontline such as healthcare workers and first responders to rapidly adapt to new safety protocols and utilize ...

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...

Himeji, JAPAN • October 2019 – Showa Glove Co. (“Showa Glove”), a globally renowned producer of specialized glove products for a vast array of household and industrial applicationshas announced a s...

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, perform...

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 ran...

Understand the new ANSI/EN388 2016 Cut Resistant Glove Standards

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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

 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...