Showa Glove has released No.8810 Nitrile New Fit 100-pack as a new addition to its lineup of nitrile gloves for single-use. These gloves are approximately 2.5 mils (0.06 mm) thick, soft, and easy to work with, allowing users to make use of the bare hand feeling. With the release of this product, the Nitrist series lineup now includes a total...
The Japan Glove Manufacturers Association has published its 2022 glove sales volume statistics for the Japanese domestic market. Household glove sales in 2022 remained flat at 83.19 million pairs, down 1% from the previous year. Only rubber gloves grew by 6% year-on-year, but none of the categories recovered to the 2019 levels prior to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, sales...
Showa Glove will in September release the Nitrist Pink 100-pack as a new addition to its Nitrist series of nitrile rubber use-up gloves. The thickness is a versatile 0.08 mm, and four sizes (SS, S, M, L, LL) will be available. The new product is being launched in response to the fact that color-coded zoning is often used to prevent...
Showa Glove Co. has announced that it plans to launch sales of new cut-resistant gloves on Jan. 9. The gloves provide safety and durability while also being pliable and easy to work with – a combination that has been difficult to achieve until now. Intended to be worn in settings that pose a danger of incision wounds, the new gloves...
Japan’s domestic sales volumes of glove products remained firm in 2016, up slightly from the year before, according to a report by the Japan Glove Manufacturers Association. Domestic sales of household gloves totaled 91.84 million pairs during 2016, up 0.2 percent from the previous year, while sales for surgical gloves increased 1.5 percent to 79.02 million pairs. Ultra-thin disposable gloves...
Rubber glove manufacturer Showa Glove Co. has developed an impact protection glove, marketed as Power Shield, that reduces the impact on fingers during work. The newly developed glove uses nitrile rubber, which is highly resistant to oil and abrasion. The structure consists of three layers in which nitrile rubber is double-coated on a glove that features finely woven 13-gauge seamless...
