• Industrial hand gloves are mainly used by workers in factories as an item of protective apparel.
• They are classified under
  1. Cut-Slash Protection as well as
  2. Thermal Protection.
• Gloves are most excellent for protection from-
  1. Rough objects,
  2. Sparks and heat, and for
  3. Cushioning from blows in heavy-duty work requirements.
• Hand gloves are of various types (leather, knitted, nitrile) and sizes (varying gauges).
• The materials that go in the production of hand gloves vary from cotton fabrics and asbestos to variety of leathers, p-aramid etc.
• Gloves are widely used in Industry and Defense (Cut-Slash protection).
• Owing to swift industrialization, the use of industrial hand gloves is likely to grow significantly.

Product characteristics

• The gloves used for industrial and general purposes are typically classified into following broad categories:
  1. Leather gloves
  2. Knitted gloves
  3. Non-latex gloves e.g. Nitrile gloves
  4. Rubber/Latex gloves
• The leather, knitted and nitrile gloves are used in industrial applications for protection.
• The rubber/latex gloves are used for surgical use.
• The typical properties of gloves are as given below:
  1. Mild heat resistance
  2. High abrasion protection
  3. Better grip with anti slip coating
  4. Comfortable and durable
  5. Protection against cut and hot splash
  6. For gloves made from Aramid (Para) –temperature tolerance ranges from 250 to 750 Centigrade
  7. Nitrile gloves provide chemical splash protection

Raw-materials

A. Leather gloves:

• The fleece is tested for identical thickness, gap and flying cuts, if any.
• It is afterward strike with the outline and after that cut with the help of scissors or clicking blade into different apparatus.
• The inner lining material is cut in the dimensions of the glove.
• The leather lining material is stitched together.
• After seaming all the components properly, the gloves are turned inside out.
• The gloves are then getting prepared for packaging and dispatching.  

B. Knitted gloves:

• The gloves fabric is prepared by knitting man-made fibres similar to Para-aramid (or merge of               p-aramid with additional fibers such as nylon and polyester) with weave properties in consonance with the preferred end product characteristics. Yarn denier can differ from 0.85 to 4.2 dpf with 2.25 dpf the desired manufactured goods.
• The fabric is cut to desired size and so is the lining material.
• The parts are stitched together and gloves are turned inside out.

C. Nitrile Gloves

• They are manufactured by coating nitrile compound on knitted gloves of synthetic fibre or cotton fibre. The nitrile coating offers good abrasion and cut resistance