And because of the precision in its knitting and the possibilities available with its coatings, flat dipped gloves are fast becoming the premier of choice for electronics and computer assembly. Full credit must go to Showa, Ltd. of Japan. Showa holds a patent on some of the technology and process of manufacturing flat dipped gloves. As the name implies, it s the precision involved with coating and dipping that separates it from other commercially available general-purpose hand protection. As with any innovation, the bar is always raised when other industry players add their own improvements, taking the technology to new levels and unimagined, or even unintended, applications.
Success attracts a lot of attention and a lot of emulators.
The future of flat dip technology seems well rooted in the industrial arena for now. The reason it has factory workers and general contractors acting like teenagers at an N Sync concert is due primarily to its greatest feature the grip. If there has remained one universal complaint with general-purpose work gloves it is the absence of or inadequacy of proper grip and dexterity. And that in turn determines to a great extent whether or not gloves get worn. Flat dipped gloves have changed all that.