Blog/Glove Knowledgebase — Covid-19

Disposable gloves are used across virtually every industry, but are obviously most prevalent in the medical and healthcare industry. We know disposable gloves come in a variety of materials like nitrile, latex, polyvinyl, neoprene, and others. In 2019, before COVID, the disposable glove industry was valued at $4,026.17 million and experts are predicting that by 2027 the value of the industry could reach up to $11,101.07 million. With so many different types of glove materials out there, experts are expecting that the nitrile (synthetic rubber) segment of gloves will meet or even exceed the segment of natural rubber gloves. Additionally, powder free...

Another major problem that has resulted from COVID-19 is the significant shipping delays consumers are experiencing, especially when it comes to the glove industry. Many products are on backorder, resulting in long wait times. Supply chains across virtually every industry have been disrupted in the last year, leaving everyone at kind of a standstill when it comes to finding a solution to shortening consumer wait times on their products. The issues have been quite significant when it comes to disposable gloves because over 90% of the global glove supply originates in Southeast Asia, an area of the world that has experienced lots...

Unfortunately, this headline is not new news to anyone involved in the glove industry. Due to COVID we’ve seen unprecedented demand for disposable gloves, and thus an unprecedented struggle to keep up with demand. Not only has COVID caused disruptions in the supply of disposable gloves and other personal protective equipment, but it has caused a disruption in supply chains across industries. Many manufacturers are dependent on processes that are very labor intensive, and when COVID was at it’s highest, many of those processes were put on halt because large warehouses of employees were not able to gather.meOne main industry to...

Throughout the pandemic, you’ve likely heard about the N95 masks because they have been in such high demand. We’re proud and excited to announce that we are now carrying the N99 respirator, which is a step above the N95. The GVS N31000 boasts one of the highest ratings for a mask due to the tests it has undergone to prove its protective abilities. In the testing, the filtering efficiency is tested as well as the maximum level of interior leakage. The N99 protects filters more than 99% of particulates and bacteria. Some of our other favorite features of this respirator are that...

It is hard to believe that we are a full year into the global COVID-19 crisis, leaving many with more questions than answers. Since March of 2020 there has been an unprecedented demand for disposable gloves, among other PPE, leaving many manufacturers scrambling to try and increase their supply. Many experts in the field assumed that COVID-19 would run a similar course to other epidemics that have happened in the past, and manufacturers knew they would need to increase their production rates, but no one knew by how much. For a while, as distributers sold through whatever inventory they already had on...