Knitted Work Glove Materials & Performance

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With  trusted glove suppliers such as Superior Glove®, PIP® (Protective Industrial Products), HexArmor®, Ansell®, Majestic®, Wells Lamont Industrial, and SHOWA® offering industrial hand protection against workplace hazards such as lacerations, snagging, abrasions, impacts/bangs and punctures, how can you be sure you are selecting the proper work glove material for the task?

When selecting work safety gloves, most individuals simply focus on hazard ratings as the primary guide for choosing the proper hand protection.

While certain materials and ANSI/ISEA standard ratings may indicate a strong performance against specific hazards like lacerations or attributes like dexterity or comfort, most folks do not account for glove materials and related limitations that potentially impact safety for task specific environments.

LIMITATIONS

Different materials provide different protective values against workplace hazards and as such, not all work gloves are created to protect universally. 

KNITTED YARNS

A glove's shell is considered the foundation of all safety gloves. All knitted work gloves start off as fibers. Whether natural or synthetic, fibers are either combed, melted, or engineered into yarns. From there, various yarns are then fused together using a spinning machine onto a spool which are then connected to another machine that twists and knits a glove shell.

MDS Associates provides shoppers with an extensive portfolio of seamless knit work gloves in a variety of glove gauge thicknesses, materials and palm coatings.  Here you can read and compare the most popular compositions that best meet your needs when on the job.

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