‘Showa’ means “finding a balance between different elements” in Japanese. SHOWA® is solely focused on the start-to-finish manufacturing of industrial hand protection. They fully control our industrial ecosystem, which has a decisive advantage over other companies. By creating all their own machinery, yarns, coatings, polymers, designs and hand formers, SHOWA® controls every step of our process, every step of the way – for 100% quality control at every level.