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 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.
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.
Gloves Help Protect Customers, Eateries From Allergen Exposure
In the food service industry, preventing cross-contamination of all kinds is Job One. When you’re preparing food for customers with allergies, it’s even more important.
Disposable gloves are critical, as they provide a barrier that helps ensure allergen-sensitive food preparation is uncontaminated. Allergens are always top of mind at AMMEX—and we have the right gloves for the job.
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.
Why Fill Rates Are Crucial in the Disposable Glove Industry
It’s the law of supply and demand: Workers in businesses across the industrial spectrum depend on disposable gloves to safely perform their daily tasks. They order, take delivery, and wear them on the job. Rinse and repeat. It’s commerce, the way it’s supposed to work.
Where the equation gets interesting is determining which vendors can always deliver the gloves needed, when they’re needed, at scale, without backorders or other roadblocks. That’s where fill rates come into play.
Does Double-Gloving Increase Safety?
In medical use, double-gloving—wearing one pair of gloves over another—is commonplace.
Healthcare professionals, always looking for extra protection from bloodborne pathogens, germs, viruses, and bacteria, have long double-gloved when the fear of contamination is high. In the early days of the pandemic, even with widespread glove shortages, an extra pair of gloves was seen not as an extravagance but a necessity.