All Round Safety Endorse Shigematsu Respirators

After just half a year of selling the Shigematsu range of full and half-face respirators, ARENZ – New Zealand’s largest supplier of Asbestos Removal Equipment, and All Round Safety’s suppliers – reckon it’s become the industry’s go-to brand.

They have been selling Shigematsu for between four and five months and do the full range of PAPR, full-face and half masks but specialise in the P3 an P3R for asbestos removal. They say they came on board because they wanted to expand their range to be able to offer their customers three options when it came to respiratory protection and, as the Number One brand in Japan, Shigematsu fitted the bill perfectly.

As ARENZ say, the main selling point is that everything is concentrated in the mask, and there’s nothing to get tangled while people are working. It’s also very light-weight, it looks completely different from the other masks and it’s clearly very easy to wear. “The main things that have come from customers is that the speech diaphragm and way it fitted the face made it much more comfortable than masks from other ranges. There were initially comments that the filters didn’t seem to last as long as other brands and there was no prefilter system (although they’re looking at something to fix that), but the battery life was the same as others and the guys were shocked because they were finally able to work without having something big and bulky around their waists.

In answer to the question, “Would you say Shigematsu has been a success story in New Zealand?” ARENZ say, “Definitely, it’s so good, we want to have sole rights at ARENZ! At the end of the day I think it’s a good mask and a successful roll-out but in many ways that comes down to the support that you get from Dalton as well. You could easily have a supplier that’s very unreceptive but I know that if I’m getting an order for a few masks I can call Dalton and get support and that helps get the brand out there and better known.”

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