Nuevos Catálogos / New Catalogues PROTECCIÓN LABORAL 65 | 4oTrimestre10 Showa Best Glove 2011 Collection, a powerhouse of protection The new Showa Best Glove catalog, the result of the operational integration of Showa Europe and Best Manufac- turing Europe, depicts the merger on the front cover with the image of two hands (wearing gloves) reaching to each other, and a caption at the bottom recalling that merger and underlining “One Powerhouse in Protection”. The first seven pages (foreword to the cata- log) are its presentation, and include the sections: • Founders (Tanaka and Tillotson, res- pectively) Presents a summing up of the company concerns and achievements of both figu- res, along with a chronicle of their contri- butions to the world of gloves and hand protection. • Merger Two powerful companies and one destiny in protection, a situation characterized by: - Cutting-edge technology. With its orienta- tion towards research and development, the company Showa Best Glove is placed in a unique position to boost the innovative tradition of both companies and launch products for hand and arm protection unequalled on the current market. - High production capacity. In the global economy, the network of their own pro- duction plants (USA, Japan, Guatemala, Vietnam, Malasia and Canada) enables them to increase the production capacity and guarantee market supply also on a global scale. - Complete portfolio of products for hands and arms. The high quality of Showa and Best products has favored the recognized leadership of both companies. As a combi- nation of both, the company Showa Best Glove offers a complete range of protective gloves of the highest quality to the industry in general: construction, health, manufac- turing, commercial fishing, etc. - Broad coverage of service. The merged company of Showa Best Glove has one of the most powerful sales and service organizations, centered exclu- sively on offering solutions for hand pro- tection to the most varied sectors of the industry. • Innovative alliance The criteria of this powerhouse of protec- tion continues to be “never imitate”. On the contrary, pride of place goes to “inno- vation, user satisfaction and constant qua- lity to achieve high productivity.” Products are environmentally friendly and subjec- ted to total and completely independent control. • Materials and their features / coa- tings and advantages The Group offers a great variety of mate- rials and coatings. Cotton, nylon, acrylic, aramid, high-performance polyethylene (HPPE), are some of the raw materials. The coatings available are of materials like nitryl, natural latex, polyurethane, PVC, neoprene, butyl, or viton. Offer grouped into seven segments The ranges included in the new Showa Best Glove catalog are: - Multiuse. Based on materials like nitryl, latex, PVC, polyurethane. Includes referen- ce models, like the Zorb It line, or the legen- dary Showa 370. - Antistatic. Conceived for protecting elec- tronics products during their handling. - Cut-resistant. Uses the new Showa S-Tex material with stainless steel reinforce- ment. - Heat protection. Uses neoprene, offering products effective at temperatures up to 500o C. - Cold protection. Uses latex and PVC, materials with which comfortable gloves have been developed with high perfor- mance. - Chemical protection. Constitutes one of the most extensive collections, manufactu- red with materials like nitryl, latex, PVC, neoprene, butyl, viton, etc. - Disposable gloves. These are manufactu- red with nitryl, and nitryl free of vulcani- zation accelerators (susceptible to causing allergies). There is also an economy line. In this product segment we find the outs- tanding N-Dex Plus glove. This time we draw attention to the range of Cold Protection gloves (see information in the New Products section). Showa-Best Glove is distributed in Spain and Portugal through the sales network of Tomás Bodero S. A., the only Spanish manufacturer of protective gloves, with 100% local capital, specializing exclusively in the development of solutions for hand protection. 80 PARA MÁS INFORMACIÓN, CONTACTE CON: comercial@prensa-tecnica.com // FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: comercial@prensa-tecnica.com