American Firewear Glove Design Advantages

Our Recommended Proprietary Glove Design Technologies...

Patented, Patent Pending and • Wristlet Model GL-SGKCW QUAD Proprietary Technology that Delivers Certified to: Patented and Patent Pending Phenomenal Dexterity with Enhanced - NFPA 1971, 2007 Edition Structural Protection! - NFPA 1999, 2008 Edition EMS Work True 3-D Hand Shaped Styling with Gloves Staggered Layer Seaming Structural Fire Fighting - NFPA 1951, 2007 Edition Technical Patented and Patent Pending Gloves: Rescue and Recovery • Gauntlet Model GL-SGKCG Certified - NFPA 1951, 2007 Edition Technical Bubble-Flex Finger and Knuckle to NFPA 1971, 2007 Edition Structural Rescue Utility Construction with Dead Air Spacer Ridges

Proprietary and Patent Pending Digiroo ™ High Grip Palm and Fingers

Patented and Patent Pending Air Spacer ™ Thermal Architecture Traps Air for Thermal Protection without Traditional Bulk

Features Ultra Thin, Ultra Strong Kangaroo Back Outer Shell

Crosstech ® Moisture Barrier

Kevlar ®/Nomex ® Thermal Liner

Made Domestically • Your Manufacturer Will be Accessible for After-sale Support and Service • Sizes Will Not be Restocked Over Slow Boats from Distant Sites • Berry Amendment Compliant

Super Glove Sizing Kit American Firewear HIGHLY recommends the use of our Super Super Glove Reactions Glove Sizing Kit. The 3D Super Glove always feels good, but The reactions at trade shows for the Super Glove was when the true correct size is tried on, it is a MAGIC moment. 3D literally a mob scene (even with 10 full-time booth person - gloves are often worn in a smaller size than 2D gloves since they nel assigned there ). We have never introduced a product do not ride the hand and to wider user excitement. Even the higher price did not restrict motion, even in a seem to diminish at all the end user appreciation for this relatively tight good fit. glove, and the advancements in comfort and safety that it The Super Glove Sizing represents. As the fire service themselves noted, the Kit is available with 14 extra durability of kangaroo may mean this glove is actu - sizes to accommodate ally less expensive when you consider comparative wear every size of today’s life, AND it offers the other important safety and comfort firefighters. advantages that other gloves do not even approach.

18 www.HoneywellFirstResponder.com Table of Contents True 3-D Hand Shaped Styling with Staggered Layer Seaming (Patented and Patent Pending)

Note 3-D openings into the fingers and opened glove body for easy donning vs the 2-D -trimmed “look.”

Patented Bubble-Flex Fingers and 2-D gloves “collapse” and 3-D openings into fingers and glove body assist and Knuckles. Bubble-Flex Fingers and inhibit donning/doffing. ease donning/doffing as the glove is “self shaped,” not Knuckles “grow” with motion as the hand “riding.” fingers do when a fist is formed. Bubble-Flex Finger and Knuckle construction deployed...

In contrast, a flat 2-piece glove with leather trim “looks” 3-D, but it is essentially two pancakes sewn together.

Bubble-Flex Finger and Knuckle Construction with Dead Air Spacer Ridges (Patented and Patent Pending)

Your fingers “grow” with motion; so does the Super Glove, so hand motion Built in the anthropomorphically correct and grip are dramatically improved. 3-D shape of the hand, so no “pull” at rest, or extra resistance at start of flex. Bubble-Flex Fingers and Knuckle Styling not only “ease” motion, they increase effective insulation since the glove is not normally pulled tight to the skin...an insulating “blanket” of air is always retained.

Dead Air Spacer Ridges preserve the air spaces both in the liner and outer shell. True 3-D Hand Shaped Styling makes hand movement less opposed and less stressful.

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Super Glove Design Advantages Continued... Unique Materials that Offer Superior Tactility, Thinness, Feel, and Enhanced Insulation (Patented, Patent Pending and Proprietary)

Exterior Materials Interior Materials

Eversoft Black Cowhide Cuffs Digiroo ™ Digital Kangaroo Palm and Air Spacer ™ Thermal Lining Top Grain Kangaroo Back Outer Shell Fingers delivers incredible durability, Architecture Traps Air for Thermal grip, and tactility with unprecedented Protection without Traditional Bulk thinness. (Patented and Patent Pending)

Air Spacer ™ Back – Unique 3-D Kevlar ®/Nomex ® micro-spaces preserve highly insulative microcapsules of air for thermal protection without bulk. This is supported by thermally spaced architecture of the glove shell.

Air Spacer ™ Face – Separate Kevlar ®/Nomex ® micro-architecture on soft lining face for yet another layer of insulating air. This is supported by thermally spaced architecture of the glove shell.

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If you look closely at how a glove is constructed, you can probably see how challenging it is to manufacture. It requires quality specialty materials and highly skilled workers, and is very labor intensive. Beginning in the late 1990s, Honeywell First Responder Products expanded its two-dimensional (2-D) patterned glove line with its first three dimensional (3-D) Proximity glove. Today, American Firewear proudly offers Convertible Kangaroo Leather Palm a large selection of premium gloves in Wear as a gauntlet, wristlet or inner Remarkable material absorbs far less both traditional 2-D and true 3-D wristlet. One style serves all three water than traditional glove and Patterns. purposes. offers very high abrasion resistance, excellent grip when wet. 2-D Patterns – Unique Swing Thumb To achieve a Works the way your hand does, with Pliable Elk Back conforming, thumb opposing fingertips. Stretches, stays soft. affordable prod - uct in a material 360° Inner Pull Tab Two Barrier Choices intensive 3-layer ® Available with Crosstech or fire glove, a Polyurethane. simple two- dimensional 2-D Tri-Certified (2-D) pattern, ® The Crosstech /wristlet style Model consisting ™ 9500 Fire Mate is certified to NFPA primarily of a 1971, 2007 edition for Structural gloves front and a back, and NFPA 1951, 2007 edition for is a customary Technical Rescue and Recovery and choice. Extra strength wherever you pull. Round Technical Rescue Utility gloves. Note: shape holds glove open for better NFPA 1951 requires 50% better dexterity 2-D Characteristics: drying. than NFPA 1971. • Front and back • A popular choice Extra Wide Opening Competitive Issues on • Time-tested workhorses, modeled Makes getting a wet glove off and on Competitive Gloves... after work gloves easier. Our Super Glove sales continue to • Strong and durable sky rocket, and we believe its • Wide range of styles, materials, and Available in Kangaroo or success is destabilizing the glove certifications Cowhide Palm, Elk Back market. Competitors are introducing • Generally less labor intensive than Soft durability on the palm, pliable new or refined products, and hence 3-D gloves stretch on the back. you may want updated information. • Generally cost a little less than Ask your dealer to bring in one of 3-D gloves Full Width Additional Palm our technical glove experts when Strip you need help determining the facts. Extra slash protection, grip enhance - ment and first knuckle protection.

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Glove Design Advantages Continued... 2-Layer Direct Grip ® vs 3-D Patterns – 3-Layer Glove Styling ® Beginning in the A “Direct Grip ” glove is one which 3-D ® 1990s, perform - incorporates the W.L. Gore Direct Grip ance require - Insert. The insert is a one-piece ments for fire combination thermal lining and moisture service gloves barrier. Early fire fighting field test heightened, as subjects reported they felt a sharp did general reduction in thermal insulation, and they demand for 3-D preferred the thermal protection of a true 3-layer system. Therefore, all of our gloves. For Competitor example, high- Structural and Proximity models retain end sporting that preferred 3-layer design (although Also Note How the Unlined Gauntlet and dress gloves we continue researching ways to utilize “Crumbles” Up with Use (The Single ® increasingly the Direct Grip technology while Layer Leather is More Easily Pushed featured 3-D retaining acceptable insulation). Back by the Coat than Our Fully patterning. Manufacture of 3-D fire Composited Gauntlets). Full Composite Interiors service gloves gradually became more economically feasible. Custom Logos Gloves are manufactured with the 3-D Characteristics: standard American Firewear logo. • Front, back, and sides of fingers However, Morning Pride or your own • Cutting edge materials custom logo may be specified. See • Easier donning – the glove is shaped price list for details. like a human hand • Less stressful hand movement – Bubble-Flex Fingers less flexion resistance (Patented) • Higher effective TTPs – due, in part, to Competitor Your fingers grow in length as you bend reduced glove compression made your knuckles (to make a fist). In the possible by American Firewear’s Lining and Moisture Barrier Stop where newer 3-D gloves like our Super Gloves, flexion tuck on fingers and across the Gauntlet Begins we incorporate a stitched bubble to allow back of the hand that growth to occur unrestricted and • Faster drying – because glove stays without movement restriction/unneces - open sary glove compression. 2-D gloves are • More labor intensive than 2-D gloves less tailored to the hand, so this feature • Generally cost a little more than 2-D is not included on our 2-D products. gloves

American Firewear

Lining and Moisture Barrier are Brought to End of Gauntlet for Full Glove Body Protection

22 www.HoneywellFirstResponder.com Table of Contents Bubble-Flex Wing Thumb vs Welted Thumb and Knuckle Styling Swing Thumb ™ Finger-to-Palm Seams (Patented) American Firewear Exclusive Patented All American Firewear gloves (except the Feature 8 goves that utilize the anti-slash strip/thumb joint as a welting point) have The Swing leather thumb crotch welts. The glove Thumb ™ shown below features the leather welts (standard on at the thumb crotch and the finger-to- Eclipse ™ style palm seams. This feature adds protec - products) is tion and durability to these high stress the only areas. ergonomi - cally-correct Wing Thumb Design Creating a tiny fold in the back of the thumb design hand, as in our Super Glove and Proxim - found in a ity gloves, allows the entire back of the Structural glove to “grow” when you make a fist. glove. Rather Not only does this allow your hand and than winging fingers to move more easily, it helps out from the reduce the tightening of the shell that glove body, or can squeeze air out of the thermal liner paralleling the Pull Tab and reduce the glove’s insulation quality. index finger, the Swing Thumb ™ Design Eclipse ™ thumb Except for BPR Exclusive Features bends toward the fingertips, more Eclipse ™ closely approximating normal hand gloves, all Wick-Guard Heat-Guard function. wristlet gloves feature rein - Anti-Slash Strip forcing leather Anti-Slash pull tabs sewn onto the palm side of the palm strips glove, to protect the wristlet from distor - are featured tion while donning and doffing. on several American Firewear Our Concerns About the American Firewear BPR gloves feature gloves, Pro-Tech 8 Glove... an Arashield ® or aluminized Pbi ™/ such as the Eclipse ™ series, the 8600 We have prepared a Position Paper Kevlar ® Wick-Guard to stop water and and 8650, 5550, and 5500-4K3. This that outlines our testing and concerns fluid from reaching the interior by wicking extra layer of leather protects hands and on the Pakistani made Pro-Tech 8 up and around at this interface area, enhances grip. The Anti-Slash palm glove. This glove contains which is always a problem when using strips on Eclipse ™ gloves extend around inner lining and we have concerns fire fighting foams. A narrow leather the index finger to protect the 1st about their oven Heat-Guard strip is sewn at the open knuckle. test results as well end of the gauntlet to provide added as other technical comfort and protection. This Heat-Guard concerns. For a feature is replaced with a wristlet on copy, contact your those particular styles of gloves. dealer or Honey - well First Respon - der Products’ Regional Director.

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Glove Design Advantages Continued... • If price is the issue, our TriForce 3D • Be aware we believe one competitive glove delivers better feel at lower price. glove sample we reviewed did not Issues on Of course, the Super Glove remains the provide the required full protection ultimate glove. (including moisture barrier) 2” past the Competitive wrist crease (photo shows white • Be aware that on one competitive moisture barrier ending just 1” past Gloves... glove we acquired, the first and second wrist crease). batch of sample gloves were very Our Super Glove sales continue to sky different. rocket, and we believe its success is destabilizing the glove market. Competi - • See if the glove uses a goat shell, tors are introducing new or refined which can wear VERY quickly...hence products, and hence you may want why most manufacturers do not updated information. But, remember our typically use goat in fire fighting technical glove experts are available gloves. anytime you need help in determining the right glove for your department. Contact • One competitor actually has an outer your dealer or call our Customer Service shell that is the highly desirable Department. Also remember that our lab Competitive Glove Does Not Provide 3D constructioning. However, unlike the Full Protection is always available for head-to-head Super Glove, this glove’s thermal liner comparative testing; that type of testing is NOT 3D. • We believe there are competitive gloves takes opinion and marketing hyperbole on the market with liner detachment out of it...just the facts are clearly issues. demonstrated. • Be aware we have found at least two The following is just a few of the competi - differing interior materials in one tive issues we found when conducting competitive brand (at least in head-to-head comparative testing and a appearance) in the limited number of list of issues you should consider before gloves we have been able to dissect. making a glove purchasing decision: Differing interior layers would have to be independently certified as they • Find out the glove’s country of Competitive Glove with 3D Outer might offer differing performance levels. manufacture. Shell and a 2D Thermal Liner • Look out for gloves we believe have a • Find out if a glove has ever been leakage issue. de-listed for reported durability problems and have the problems been Only Dry Area fixed with the replacement glove. Or is it just the same old glove with a new name?

• Compare the competitive glove’s feel with Super Glove’s feel; we believe you will prefer the Super Glove’s feel. Competitive Glove Used Different Check out bulk, finger pinch and Hand Reinforcing Materials flexibility. Competitive Glove Failed • Look to see if the glove uses the high Overall Liquid Integrity Test in Our Lab quality Crosstech ® moisture barrier used in our Super Glove.

24 www.HoneywellFirstResponder.com Table of Contents • Know that in one competitive glove • Be aware one competitive glove we sample we tested, there was apparent tested uses a high density coated failing wet CHR performance on the material on the palm and even the back back of the hand (both knit and leather of hand (where there is additional areas). layering) and it appears to act as heat sinks (both heating to higher levels and • Look out for a competitive wristlet holding heat longer). model that appears to fail to provide NFPA required 2” past wrist protection. • We feel shrinkage, after use, will be a real problem with some competitive Wrist Crease gloves.

• We have found that various areas of one competitive glove featured high density materials that flamed. Competitive Glove that Used a High Density Material that Flamed We continually examine any new products...call your dealer or our Customer Service Department for Competitive Glove Does Not Provide updated information and test results. Full Wrist Protection per NFPA Requirements

Comparative Shrinkage Issues

BIG Dimensional Change! No Dimensional Change! Before After Before After

Competitive Glove versus Our Super Glove After 5 Wash/Dry per NFPA Conditioning Protocol

Note: As the competitive leather shrinks, the interior of the glove becomes wadded, making use essentially impossible

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Glove Shells pili muscles, and a distinct gradation in Digiroo ™ Digital Kangaroo American Firewear produces NFPA fire elastin levels, concentrated in the upper Palm and Fingers fighting gloves of kangaroo, elkskin, and part of the skin. American cowhide leathers. Each offers unique Firewear properties, and our experts utilize the Kangaroo, on the other hand, has been has used appropriate weight, cut, and to shown to have a highly uniform orienta - kangaroo bring firefighters the best combinations tion of fiber bundles in parallel with the leather now of comfort, performance, and price skin surface. It does not contain sweat for over 9 available. glands or erector pili muscles, and years with elastin is evenly distributed throughout tremen - Top Grain Kangaroo Back the skin thickness (Bavinton et al 1987). dously Outer Shell This structural uniformity explains both positive field results and demand. The Kangaroo the greater tensile strength of the whole Super Glove extends the advantages of leather is leather and the greater retention of kangaroo with Digiroo ™ digital kangaroo widely strength in splits. Bovine skin is much on the palm and fingers for incredible accepted more complex in cross section. Hence in dexterity and grip with unprecedented as being whole section it has many more weak comfort. one of the points from which tears can start when strongest placed under tension. In addition, when Elk Leather (Elkskin) lightweight sliced into splits the collagen fibers Elk hides offer more insulation and leathers running at significant angles to the skin flexibility than cowhide because they are available. Yet the reasons for this surface will be cut. These then become less dense than cowhides. Elks are strength are not widely appreciated. weak points in the structural strength. descendents of artic and temperate zone ancestors, so the elk’s contains Studies conducted by the Australian Thus the structural uniformity in the more air spaces to protect the animal Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial morphology of kangaroo leather readily from the cold than found in cows, which Research Organization (CSIRO) confirm explains its dramatic strength and the descended from tropical and subtropical that kangaroo is one of the strongest retention of this strength when split. bovine species. As with the split leathers of similar substance available This uniformity requires efficient fat cowhide, the elk split suede leather is (Stephens 1987). liquoring and staking to obtain optimal double chromium tanned to increase results from processing. These heat stability. Although much softer and Similarly when split into thinner sub - processes have the effect of un-sticking more flexible throughout its useful life, stances, kangaroo retains considerably fiber bundles from each other, thereby due to its lower density, elk hide, has a more of the original tensile strength of enabling each bundle to move independ - 10% to 15% lower abrasion resistance the unsplit leather than does calf. When ently. Since kangaroo fibers are aligned and therefore a slightly shorter shell split to 20% of original thicknes, kanga - parallel to each other they contact other wear life. roo retains between 30 to 36% of the fibers along much of their length. Bovine tensile strength of the unsplit hide. fibers on the other hand only contact Elkskin gained popularity in the early Calf, on the other hand, split to 20% of other fibers at the points where they 1980s. At that time, Eversoft Cowhide original thickness retains only 1 to 4% of intersect with them. did not exist, and pigskin was either slip - the original strength (Stephens 1987). pery when wet, hard as a rock when dry, Kangaroo leather is a true breakthrough. or both. Although elk did not withstand Studies of the morphology of kangaroo It not only stands up to abrasion, but is abrasion as well as the others, it did leather compared to bovine help explain strong enough for any normal fire fight - stay soft longer, with only a small these remarkable differences. The ing task. Densely packed fibers keep increase in price. collagen fiber bundles in hide are water absorption to a minimum, and, arranged in a complex weaving pattern. despite its “top grain” appearance, American Firewear recognized that The fibers are often at angles as much kangaroo leather does not become elkskin on the backs of gloves, where as 90 degrees to the skin surface. Cattle slippery when wet. stretch is required and abrasion unlikely, hide also contains sweat glands, erector combined with a more durable palm of cowhide or kangaroo would improve fire

26 www.HoneywellFirstResponder.com Table of Contents glove performance. As new linings and Aluminized Pbi ™/Kevlar ® Palm/Back Shell moisture barriers have been added to Shells Combinations this combination, a variety of exceptional Knit Pbi ™/Kevlar ® based aluminized American Firewear gloves such as the gloves has emerged. material has long been the preferred Fire Mate ™ and the Eclipse ™ feature one shell for Proximity turnout gear. The knit leather on the palm and another on the Cowhide Leather base fabric offers the best flexibility, back. Leathers are available in a range Plentiful supplies and easy processing durability and radiant heat reflectivity for of colors. Some of our General makes split suede cowhide the economi - Proximity gloves. Purpose/Extrication gloves are also cal choice for glove shells. Double made of multiple leathers including chromium tanning gives cowhide higher Grain Goat Hide Shells goatskin, elkskin and cowhide. heat stability for fire fighting. Although Used in our GL-LR07 utility gloves, this cowhide is a more durable suede mate - grain goat hide, with digital palm Arashield ® (or Aluminized) rial, it is never as soft and flexible, nor reinforcement, offers the best combina - Wick-Guard can it provide the insulation of the more tion of tactile feel and maximum wear life Polymer coated Kevlar ® twill Arashield ® expensive elk hide shell material. (but this version is too lightweight for (or aluminized Pbi ™/Kevlar ® on Proxim - Structural use). ity) provides the water and fluid resist - Standard Cowhide – To maintain the ance needed to stop wicking in the wrist lowest possible cost, most Utility/General Leather Competitive Facts interface area of BPR gloves, while Purpose (some manufacturers call these Cowhide is most common, available in providing a good degree of resistance to gloves Fed-OSHA or Cal-OSHA but many weights and cuts. It’s naturally most common fireground chemical neither organization has published glove stiffer than the other leathers, but can be exposures. standards in decades nor do they softened by tanning. Elk is naturally require third party testing) glove styles softer, but, as with all game animals, the Kevlar Thread are made using traditional chrome- hides are inconsistent in weight, size and Honeywell First Responder Products tanned cowhide. density, often contributing to premature utilizes Nomex ® thread in turnout gear, wear. Kangaroo leather is strong and due to field deterioration problems noted Thermo Cowhide – Economy glove abrasion resistant, with extraordinary with Kevlar ® thread. We found that, in styles meeting current NFPA Structural properties that make it ideally suited for turnout gear, while Kevlar ® stitching was Fire Fighting Standards - Models #7500 high-dexterity applications. stronger initially, it seemed to deteriorate and #7550 - utilize a double chromium- with UV exposure in the field. American tanned suede Thermo Leather, which Glove leather generally weighs in at Firewear also uses Nomex ® thread in meets the higher thermal and durability 2-5 oz/f t 2. Heavier leathers are used in their clothing. However, like most glove requirements of NFPA 1971, Current carvings, , laces, etc. The heaviest manufacturers, American Firewear Edition. This suede Thermo Leather is (12-16 oz) is used for protective armor utilizes Kevlar ® thread in their gloves with also used for the palms of style #8010 and shoe soles. “Cuts” of leather refers to good results. We believe the difference Aluminized gloves. the portion of the animal the hide was lies in the relatively shorter lives of taken from. We use no shoulder, the gloves and the fact that glove materials Eversoft Cowhide – All other glove weakest cut, in our NFPA gloves, specify - let the thread embed more completely, styles, made wholly or partly from ing only side-split or grain leather. Split where it is shielded. It appears that cowhide, utilize Eversoft Cowhide, which leather is fleshy (rough) on both sides Nomex ® thread remains the preferred is endowed with unique water resistant while grain leather is the smoothly choice in turnout gear and Kevlar ® and softness qualities on a molecular finished “skin” on one side. thread remains the preferred choice in level during the tanning process. The gloves. For these reasons, our current Eversoft process, added at the time of thread policies will continue unchanged tanning (tanning is what converts animal – Nomex ® thread in clothing and Kevlar ® flesh into pliable leather) imparts a thread in gloves. long-lasting water-repellency and supe - rior softness.

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Glove Materials Continued... • Do not clean with any compounds 4 Types of Moisture containing ammonia, chlorine, and Barriers other oxidizing or abrasive agents. Aluminized Products: American Firewear offers three very • Cleaning and Care Instructions different moisture barriers, all of which Note: These newer Cleaning Instruc - • 12-Month Cloth Warranty meet NFPA requirements: tions supersede the FEMSA Official Limitations • All third-party certified moisture User Information Guide instructions. barriers meet the NFPA Standards for The NFPA 1851 document also requires All manufacturers in the fire service use liquid, chemical, and bloodborne ™ hanging storage of Aluminized coats and the Gentex #1098 aluminized knit Pbi pathogen penetration. pants (non-folded), so we recommend Para Aramid material for Proximity certi - • The moisture barrier and the thermal gloves also be stored non-folded. fied products (helmet shrouds, clothing, lining are permanently bonded together gloves, etc). Gentex is the only supplier and then sewn into the glove to prevent Further, Gentex has advised that they of certified product in the market, and the possibility of pullout. hence this information applies to ALL normally limit their warranty to 12 brands. We have seen delamination of months (even if all Gentex instructions Crosstech ® by W.L. Gore & these products (ours and other brands). are followed) and cover material replace - Associates ment ONLY – all other costs must be While we have seen this in both washed • High breathability along with high- borne by the customer! American and unwashed products, Gentex feels temperature stability and abrasion Firewear will continue to warrant against cleaning is the issue and has provided resistance. defects in material or workmanship for us with the following cleaning instruc - • Allows faster glove drying by allowing the life of the product. But we cannot be tions. sweat vapor to condense on the responsible for what Gentex is classify - outside of the barrier. The outer shell of Aluminized gloves ing as normal for the #1098 material (i.e. delamination if not washed, dried and contain a highly reflective surface Our Recommended Moisture Barrier and it is extremely important to keep stored as above and a limited warranty this surface clean so that it may period of 12 months on material replace - Pyrotect ™ by Insert perform at peak efficiency. ment only, regardless of care). Technology, Inc. • Very high Moisture Vapor Transmission Please contact our Customer Service • Clean by gently rubbing the surface Rate Department for further assistance on this with a soft cloth or sponge and a mild • Excellent Low-temperature flexibility or any issue. soap • The first barrier to rival the breathability • Rinse thoroughly of Crosstech ® while selling at a DuPont ™ and Kevlar ® are trademarks or • DO NOT MACHINE WASH value-price (but without the higher registered trademarks of E.I. du Pont de • Dry garment by hanging in a well temperature stability of Crosstech ®). ventilated, shaded area Nemours and Company. • Use a fan to circulate the air if necessary • Do not store garment wet or with any chemical contamination

28 www.HoneywellFirstResponder.com Table of Contents Polyurethane Crosstech ® vs 2 Types of Thermal Polyurethane moisture barriers do not Polyurethane Liners offer the same protection against steam For high burns that more breathable barriers breathability, Self Extinguishing Fleece provide. Their lower cost is responsible heat resist - (SEF) for their continued popularity. Though not ance and ® as thermally stable as Crosstech under continuous high-heat conditions, they meet perform - moisture ance requirements when tested as part barrier of the overall glove composite. protection, the Teflon ® ™ ® GORE CHEMPAK based A CBRN option has been added to the Crosstech ® Questionable hand new 2007 edition of NFPA 1971, glove in - painted seam sealing of Standard on Protective Ensemble for serts have competitor’s low end glove. Self Extinguishing Fabric (SEF) fleece Structural and Proximity Fire Fighting. superior linings, for Structural and Proximity This option establishes rigorous criteria performance (see one competitor’s low gloves, are selected in the proper weight to ensure that CBRN ensembles will cost, low quality example in the photo and thickness to offer flexibility, comfort meet the high demands for providing above). With almost 20% of all fireground and excellent insulation. extensive chemical, biological agent, and injuries reported to the hands, and al - radiological particulate protection over most half of these burns, lower Kevlar ®/Nomex ® their intended service life. temperature resistant and less breath - able polyurethane barriers are really The ensemble composites must no bargain. In addition, the Teflon ® demonstrate resistance to permeation composition of Crosstech ® will withstand by chemical warfare agents and toxic heat exposures that can damage the industrial chemicals after the materials leather shell, while polyurethane barriers have been subjected to multiple can melt and leak with no external washings and heat exposures, repeated indication visible to the end user. flexing and severe abrasion. By blending Kevlar ® and Nomex ® Chemical Warfare Agents The Dexterity and together, it is possible to create a thinner Soman (GD) – Nerve Agent Thermal Stability of the thermal liner offering the same level of Distilled Mustard (HD) – Blister Agent Super Glove Now protection found in thicker SEF liners. Toxic Industrial Chemicals Available in California... Kevlar ® content also supplies cut-resis - Acrolein (Liquid) Acrylonitrile (Liquid) tance not found in SEF. Our Super Ammonia (Gas) Chlorine (Gas) On October 13, 2007, Governor Glove features this thermal liner. Dimethyl Sulfate (Liquid) Schwarzenegger signed legislation that clarified and allowed the sale of On our Model GL-SGMM gloves, the products derived from NON-endan - Quality Equals Safety traditional moisture barrier is replaced by gered kangaroo products. This a CBRN barrier layer in garments and means that the hundreds of We feel that uncompromising quality the hood. This layer includes a GORE ™ California departments that prefer in materials and construction make CHEMPAK ® selectively permeable the dexterity of our kangaroo leather American Firewear Gloves the membrane, a robust material from Super Glove can now purchase the longest lasting, most cost effective W. L. Gore & Associates. This material product with full legal clearance. fire gloves available. Sure, by refus - shows permeation resistance against ing to make a low end product we key chemical warfare agents and toxic Now the Super Glove is available in will lose out on open spec bids, but industrial chemicals, while also achieving all 50 states, Canada and foreign that’s a choice we made to keep the NFPA 1971 THL requirements. countries. firefighters as safe as possible.

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