Disposable Medical Gloves Market to Exceed $3.2 Billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

There exists immense opportunities for growth in the global disposable medical gloves market given the fact that dozens of pairs of medical gloves are utilized in a single day in hospitals and laboratorial settings, and the inherent intrinsic indispensability of the product among surgeons, practitioners, and healthcare workers. By the year 2012, global disposable medical gloves market is projected to exceed $3.2 billion.

Yulex Corp. gets FDA approval to sell its natural latex gloves

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it has given the nod for Yulex Corp. to market its gloves made from natural rubber latex.

Called the Yulex Patient Examination Glove, the product is derived from guayule (pronounced why-yoo-lee), a desert bush the company harvests in Maricopa, Ariz.

Top four glove makers expect to do well in spite of poor economic conditions

Glove makers are facing a perfect storm. Surging costs and the sliding US dollar threaten to erode margins. Captains of Malaysia’s glove-making industry assure that there are ways to handle these and sales will remain robust.
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Hartalega riding on shift to nitrile gloves

Excerpts from the interview with Hartalega Holdings group MD Kuan Kam Hon.

STARBIZ: You are expanding capacity by more than 80% this financial year and by another 50% next year. The nitrile market is not growing at this pace. Who will you take market share from?

Kuan: I'm taking market share from natural rubber (gloves). There is a switch, especially in the US, from natural rubber to nitrile (synthetic rubber) gloves because there are people with allergies to natural rubber gloves.

Like the John Hopkins hospital in the US, it has stopped the use of natural rubber gloves; they don't know who has the allergy, so they've stopped using it altogether.

Green Gloves :gloves which can be reused seven times

Firm makes gloves which can be reused seven times KUALA LUMPUR: The makers of the humble disposable rubber gloves are turning “green”, with the introduction of the reusable EcoGlove. EcoGlove chairman Patrick Hampe claimed that the gloves would be cheaper for end users, reduce the risk of latex and chemical allergies, and friendlier to Mother Nature.
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Disposable Medical Gloves Market to Exceed $3.2 Billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Firm makes gloves which can be reused seven times