
1954
Juan Bautista Barrios Ascorbe founded Guantes Juba as a section of a leather factory set up by his father, Manuel Barrios, specialised at the time in making leather seat covers for agricultural use. It began making ambidextrous gloves in a variety of tanned suede, particularly intended for heavy industry and mining applications in the North of Spain. Back in those days, it was making inroads into the automotive sector as suppliers to the first automotive factories setting up in Spain such as Renault or Seat.