Blog/Glove Knowledgebase — Nitrile Gloves

We’re excited to introduce a new nitrile exam glove that is extremely comparable to another popular nitrile exam glove: the Celeste Powder Free Nitrile Exam Glove.This new nitrile exam glove from Pulse is created with revolutionary nitrile compounding technology. This technology means that users experience a thinner glove that has amazing elasticity. These gloves are created with finely textured fingertips, which means you’ll have excellent grip in all conditions as well as virtually unequalled tactile sensitivity. These powder free, ultra-comfortable nitrile gloves come in an attractive dark lavender blue color. They are categorized as a non-sterile exam glove, which means they are...

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...

Similar to working in the food industry, you need to have gloves that offer proper protection when working with cannabis. It is important to maintain the purity of the product and avoid any potential cross contamination that could be harmful to consumers in the end product. You should be sure to purchase high quality gloves for handling cannabis because cheaper glove materials can introduce unwanted bacterial contamination to cannabis. Additionally, cheaper gloves may produce a high chemical toxicity. A few weeks ago in one of our blogs we talked about AQL, which is a rating gloves are given to measure the “failures”...

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...