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Skaters gloves help prevent the hands getting bruised and battered and stops them from getting burned from the ice. [citation needed] The top padding and shell thumb is designed to help protect the player from flying hockey pucks and opponents' ice hockey sticks.
Liverpool's first-team wearing the 2012–13 season home kit made by Warrior. In April 2011, Warrior Sports reportedly signed a sponsorship agreement for Liverpool worth £25 million per season as of the 2012–13 season while Carlsberg reduced their annual sponsorship to just half of that, overtaking the English club record of £23.3 million paid by Nike for supplying Manchester United and ...
Kevlar (para-aramid) [2] is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, [3] [2] [4] the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires.
Bauer Hockey LLC is an American manufacturer of ice hockey equipment, fitness and recreational skates and apparel. [2] Bauer produces helmets, gloves, sticks, skates, shin guards, pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, hockey jocks and compression underwear, as well as goalie equipment.
Akadema is a privately owned sporting goods manufacturing company located in Hawthorne, New Jersey, United States.The company was founded by brothers, Joseph and Lawrence Gilligan of Ringwood, New Jersey [1] Lawrence was a former Minor League player for the St. Louis Cardinals. [2]
Koho is a Finnish brand of ice hockey equipment owned by Birch Hill Equity Partners through its portfolio company Sport Maska Inc. Koho equipment was made originally by the company Koho-tuote Oy, which was founded in 1964 in Forssa, Finland by Kari Aro (1935–2003).
Vaughn Hockey (also known as Vaughn Custom Sports [1]) is a manufacturing company [2] of ice hockey equipment founded in 1982 [3] by company President Mike Vaughn. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Based out of Oxford, Michigan and London, Ontario , [ 1 ] Vaughn became one of the first major hockey production companies to use multiple foam layers in equipment.
By the end of the 1940’s, the company also produced volleyballs, soccer balls, basketballs, striking bags, and boxing gloves, all made of leather. The first Nokona ballglove with Kangaroo leather was produced in 1957. Nokona was the first company to use this leather in a baseball glove; continuing it as a popular part of its lineup today.