Blog/Glove Knowledgebase — Disposable Gloves

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...

With COVID-19 not quite yet a thing of the past, there will likely be supply issues when it comes to disposable gloves for some time. This means, we all need to do our part to make our supply stretch further. In an ideal world, disposable gloves would be one-time use products, to be immediately disposed of. Disposable gloves are not designed to be used multiple times because their protective value decreases with each wear or wash. Particularly if you are using disposable gloves to protect against germs when you’re out and about, not in your occupation, you’re better off just regularly...

Last March, who would’ve thought that the widespread effects of the COVID-19 virus would still be prominent nearly a year later? Well, it is still affecting our day to day lives as well as the glove industry. Around the world, we are seeing increases in positive cases of COVID-19 leading many countries to put more lockdown protocols into place. This means that people (medical professionals and everyday citizens) are continuing to use masks and disposable gloves to keep themselves safe. Before COVID-19, disposable gloves were not routinely worn by the general public, but now they have become a normal, and in...

It’s always fun to have a little makeover, or refresh, and Ammex thought that the start of 2021 was the time to do that across the board for their line of disposable gloves. Ammex says that there are three main reasons for this overhaul on their packaging design: Brand Alignment Simplified Packaging Increased Presentability   This company has been around for over three decades, and in that time they’ve launched a wide variety of products, and by redesigning their packaging, they’ve been able to keep themselves aligned around their three core brands: Ammex Professional: This brand subset features disposable gloves...

If you want to maintain adequate levels of protection for yourself and employees when it comes to the use of disposable gloves, you may want to consider how you are storing your gloves. Storage of disposable gloves actually contributes greatly to the integrity of the disposable gloves you’re using the continued protection they can provide. We’ve rounded up a list of “best practices” that we recommend you start implementing if you’re not already doing so.Generally speaking, the recommended shelf life of disposable gloves is around five years from the date the gloves were manufactured. However, poor storage practices negate that...