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Mawashi Protective Clothing

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Company type	Privately owned
Industry	Military, Law Enforcement, Corrections, Industrial, Firefighters
Headquarters	Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec , Canada
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Alain Bujold, President
Products	Riot Gear Training Gear Tactical Gear Cooling Systems
Services	Research & Development, Manufacturing
Website	www.mawashi.net

Mawashi Protective Clothing is a Canadian manufacturer of personal protective equipment (PPE) for crowd management & corrections, use-of-force training suits, tactical load-carriage and protective equipment, as well as personal cooling systems. Mawashi is also a Research and development (R&D) Service Provider of Personal Protection, Load-Carriage, and Personal Cooling to Military, Law Enforcement, Corrections, Firefighters and Industrial clients. Mawashi's core competencies are Human Factors Engineering, Biomimicry, Impact Management, New Product Development, Industrial Design and Systems Integration.

Specialization

Human Factors Engineering

Mawashi utilizes the science of Human factors engineering to understand the internal and external systems of the human body, and the body’s reactions in very specific circumstances. This allows the development of an appropriate concept of clothing and equipment to address these reactions in order to ensure the protection of the people who wear them. Mawashi emphasizes the understanding and design for the Human Being, and studies physiological process and response, as well as psychological process and response. The clothing and equipement improved through Human Factors Engineering help the end-user be more mobile, flexible, comfortable, non-fatigued, non-distracted, and most importantly be well protected from ballistic, blunt-impact, heat, and other serious threats.

Biomimicry

Some challenges associated in the development of personal equipment can be solved by looking into the vast and phenomenal solutions present in nature. Nature's solutions to highly-complex situations seem to be highly optimized. Mawashi studies the planet's life forms on the micro and macro scales, which exist in air, water, and on land as well as the "actions" of the planet itself (e.g. lightning, wind, tides, light, etc.) Mawashi combines its scientific competencies in Biomimicryand Impact Management to deliver products with a better ballistic and blunt-force protection, as well as protection from heat and other detrimental threats. By altering shapes, structures, and configurations of currently employed materials, it can be possible to arrive at significantly lower weight and higher protection solutions.

Impact Management

Mawashi undertakes to identify and analyze a given threat with theoretical and experimental investigation. Once the threat is characterized and quantified, then occurs the understanding what the threat's affects will be on the human body. The last stage is when we move on to "building" the actual solutions that will redirect and nullify impacting energy from a blunt object that is contacting with the body..

Products

• R4-E Riot Gear | Protective Suit for Crowd Management / Corrections
• T-RED Use-of-Force Training Suit
• T-RED Training Helmet for Repeated Impacts
• Active Microclimate Cooling System
• Tactical Knee & Elbow Pads
• Industrial Load Carriage Harness
• Industrial Load Transfer Belt
• HI-2000 Chest Protector

Research and development (R&D) services

As a solutions-provider, Mawashi employs scientific knowledge and skills, as well as design, development, and manufacturing expertise to provide clients with innovative solutions. Projects are managed utilizing an internationally recognized Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) Protocol to ensure consistency, accuracy, efficiency, and expediency for research and development efforts. Mawashi works in high-tech textiles, human physiology, composites, product development, apparel sewing & design, armour, rapid prototyping, and testing. Mawashi's services & specializations comprise research, design, development, prototyping, manufacturing, and technology transfer. Mawashi's previous projects include:

Integrated Soldier Systems

• Load Distribution Exoskeleton
• C4I Electronic Packaging & Load Carriage
• Active Microclimate Cooling Systems
• IED Protection for the Extremities
• Knee & Elbow Protection for Dismounted Infantry
• Ergonomic Armor Plates
• Drop-Impact Durability "Add-On" for Ceramic Plates
• Back Face Signature Reduction "Insert-Plate" for Individual Protection

Personal Protection

• Multi-threat personal protective equipment (PPE)

Industrial Load Carriage

• Ergonomic Harness and Load-Transfer Belt

Activity

• Human Factors Engineering
• Biomimicry
• Impact Management
• New Product Development
• Industrial Design
• Systems Integration

See also

• Blunt trauma personal protective equipment
• Crowd control
• New product development
• Human factors
• Ergonomics
• Biomimetics

External links

• Mawashi Protective Clothing | Official website
• La Presse Affaire | Newspaper article entitled "G8, G20 | Protective Equipment for police officers, or the link between lobsters and sumos"
• Canada News Center | Press release on the Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program (CICP) and Mawashi's Active Microclimate Cooling System