Everybody knows that nitrile disposable gloves are best for working with chemicals, especially in automotive maintenance. Right?
Nitrile Gloves, Automotive Needs Go Hand in Hand
Navigate Disposable Glove Market With Help From AMMEX
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As 2024 winds down, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to establish consistent and predictable supply—especially at volume—while keeping costs in check. Along with reliable supply, the benchmarks of quality, compliance, and sustainability continue to become more important in the disposable glove market.
Disposable Glove Makers Look to Make Efficiency a Priority
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The disposable glove market faces several unique cost drivers that impact the industry. Prices are expected to rise due to factors including increased factory utilization rates, higher prices for raw materials, and a weakening U.S. dollar.
Disposable Glove Market Likely to See Costs Rise
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The disposable glove market continues to have several unique cost drivers impacting the industry. Factories have reduced the number of production lines from pandemic highs, increasing utilization rates and reducing excess supply. Raw materials, from chemicals to synthetic rubber, are rising in cost. Other drivers, such as labor supply in Southeast Asia, packaging material increases, logistics, and a weakening U.S. dollar, are also playing a role.
Disposable Glove Tariffs: Five Common Questions
The U.S. government is increasing tariffs on a variety of Chinese products worth tens of billions of dollars. They have been billed as part of ongoing efforts to protect American factories and include an increase of tariffs on exam/medical-grade nitrile gloves from the current 7.5% to 50% on January 1, 2025 with a further increase to 100% on January 1, 2026.
For Serious Hand Protection, Cover Them With Diamond Texture
Anybody who uses hand protection is well aware of the potential dangers on the job—or they likely wouldn’t be wearing gloves at all. Thousands of injuries occur nationwide every year. Maybe at your facility it’s one or two. For the folks that happened to, of course, that’s one or two too many.
Billions of disposable gloves are sold every year as companies do whatever they can to protect their workers. Are most of them sufficient? Probably. Are a substantial portion of them Gloveworks Nitrile with Raised Diamond Texture? Frustratingly, no—RDT, as we affectionately call it, in fact makes up less than 1% of the overall glove market.
Sustainability Is Well on Its Way to Wider Acceptance
Sustainability is getting plenty of attention these days, and rightfully so. It’s not some marketing-driven buzzword foisted upon the public in the last few years; its roots go back to ancient times. Environmental problems like deforestation, soil loss, and salinization were topics of discussion for Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks, and Romans.
Customer Service at AMMEX Is Not a Luxury, It’s a Priority
We love the fact that our customers are not easily satisfied.
That has been one of AMMEX’s central tenets over our 35-plus years in business. It prevents taking anybody for granted and motivates us to do whatever it takes to keep customers happy.
Why AMMEX Teams Inspect Disposable Gloves at the Factory
AMMEX has been importing disposable gloves for more than 35 years. We have established policies and procedures to ensure consistent quality that meets all required standards, but we take it one step further by performing in-person inspections of every shipment before it leaves the factory.
This isn’t a common practice in the disposable glove market, but at AMMEX we took the proactive approach of setting up a team of highly trained glove professionals to catch issues early in production.
3 Simple Steps to Get the Right Jan/San Gloves
Choosing the right disposable gloves for janitorial and sanitation jobs takes a bit of work—but in the long run it’s definitely worth it.
One would think it should be pretty straightforward. Find one you like (nice color? good fit?) and try a box. It either works or it doesn’t.