Heavy Duty Disposable Gloves

One of my customers built a brand new facility and had asked that I come by for a tour. Halfway through, I noticed a standard item for any manufacturing or industrial warehouse. They can be used on the factory floor, to clean a bathroom, to take out the trash…basically used by everyone for anything. Disposable Gloves. Because these items are disposable and relatively cheap the pricing of these objects are often times overlooked and not questioned. However when buying multiple boxes of throwaway gloves these items can add up over the course of a fiscal year.

Whether these gloves are made of nitrile, latex, vinyl or some sort of bi-polymer blend, disposable gloves account for a very large share of any glove budget. No matter the thickness of the gloves you are using – which can range from 3-mil to 15-mil – these gloves are meant to be worn and then disposed of. There are many options that will not tear, bleed through, and when applied properly less expensive.

Disposable Gloves are designed to be worn once, hence the name. Typically they lose their shape, get turned inside out and often are so inexpensive, it is just easier to throw them away and get a new pair. Because of this we have found that customers are only looking at price when dealing with disposable gloves and not the waste that comes with “cheaper” gloves.

Let’s take a look at how disposable gloves SHOULD be used in a facility and then, what alternatives there are to make your workplace safer and save you money.

Cheaper gloves typically translates into a lower MIL. The MIL of a glove is its’ thickness. Putting on a glove with a lower mil may be why it rips around the wrist or your fingers break through. If you are having to use multiple gloves because they break too easily, then you really aren’t saving money with the cheapest glove.

Disposable Gloves also have the tendency to make hands sweaty. Often these gloves are tight, not allowing fluids or air to enter the glove, meaning they also don’t allow anything out of the glove either, like heat or sweat. Your fingers and hands may become hot, wrinkly and smelly, which no one likes. Certain gloves can have a powdered cornstarch coating which makes it easier for users to put on disposable gloves when hands are sweaty.

Also, there are major improvements in the glove market to steer customers away from typical disposable gloves to higher end gloves that provide higher safety levels, last longer and make your employees more productive.

Some of our most popular gloves are our Ninja series, which provide various levels of protection on both the front and back of the hand, while also being form fitting and reusable for longer periods of time. Additionally, these Ninja gloves are coated in nitrile and latex, the same items that the disposable gloves come in, so you will have the same grip.

If you find your factory floor is riddled with disposable gloves, half empty boxes of disposable gloves or most of your budget is being allocated to disposable gloves, I bet we have an alternative that will make your workplace safer and help save money in the long term. Please let us know your application, what you expect out of a glove and we will send samples of the right glove so you can feel the difference in using the right glove for the right application.