TenCate Advanced Armor North America in Newark, Ohio, has launched a new line of personal protection products, including two soft body armour materials, five soft body armour models, and fourteen hard body armour plates.

The full line of personal protection is designed to offer higher levels of life saving capabilities than those currently available on the market for law enforcement and military operational environments.

Revolutionary

Mark Bajko, Vice President and General Manager of TenCate Advanced Armor North America, explained: "Our new line of personal protection products is revolutionary and continues our heritage of providing state of the art armour solutions.”

“Using our advanced materials technology and armour design capabilities, we have developed a full line of soft and hard body armour products that offer higher levels of life saving capabilities then what is available on the market today. Our North American product line combined with our comprehensive European personal protection products contribute and enhance our company's mission of protecting people and their working and living environment."

Full range

The product launch includes soft body armour materials, soft body armour inserts, and hard body armour plates. TenCate Aramid-Shield 1000 is a uni-directional aramid ballistic material and TenCate Pro-Tector 1000 is a woven aramid laminate multi-threat material.

The TenCate Themis family of soft body armour inserts consists of five models used as protection against ballistic, fragmentation, spike and edged blades.

The TenCate Cratus family of hard body armour plates consists of fourteen models, designed to protect against the full range of handgun, edged blade, and rifle threats typically seen in law enforcement and military operational environments.

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