Scribd
Upload
287 views3 pages

The Main Steps of The Manufacturing Process: Synthetic Rubber Gloves

Nitrile gloves are made from a copolymer called NBR that is a combination of butadiene and acrylonitrile. Butadiene provides chemical resistance while acrylonitrile provides flexibility. Vinyl gloves are made from PVC with added plasticizers for flexibility. The manufacturing process involves cleaning and dipping ceramic hand-shaped formers, drying, further dipping in NBR or PVC, heating to form the gloves, and chlorination, polymerization or coating for nitrile gloves to strengthen the material before removing the finished gloves.

Uploaded by

LEE LEE LAU
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
287 views3 pages

The Main Steps of The Manufacturing Process: Synthetic Rubber Gloves

Nitrile gloves are made from a copolymer called NBR that is a combination of butadiene and acrylonitrile. Butadiene provides chemical resistance while acrylonitrile provides flexibility. Vinyl gloves are made from PVC with added plasticizers for flexibility. The manufacturing process involves cleaning and dipping ceramic hand-shaped formers, drying, further dipping in NBR or PVC, heating to form the gloves, and chlorination, polymerization or coating for nitrile gloves to strengthen the material before removing the finished gloves.

Uploaded by

LEE LEE LAU
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Synthetic rubber gloves

Nitrile gloves and vinyl gloves are two types of synthetic rubber gloves

1. Nitrile gloves
The Nitrile Butadiene Rubber (NBR) is a copolymer which is used for nitrile gloves

Chemical compounds, butadiene and acrylonitrile in NBR are combined by a process known
as copolymerization. Butadiene gives the chemical resistance and the acrylonitrile gives the
flexibility to the gloves.

2. vinyl gloves

Vinyl gloves are made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) monomers alone. The plasticizer is added
to the PVC for make the material flexible

The main steps of the manufacturing process


 Cleaning process
 Dipping process
 Per – Leaching process
 Vulcanization process
 Post – Leaching process
 Slurry dipping
 Stripping out
 Quality Check

Procedure:
At first, manufacturing machinery removes any stain and previous elements from the formers
that are shaped like hands. They are dipped into calcium carbonate and calcium nitrate
solution and dried down.
Then those formers are dipped into containers filled with NBR.
The process continues after heating and cooling down the liquid on those formers to produce
gloves. 
The next come donning. Nitrile gloves undergo polymerization or chlorination. In the
polymerization, a layer of polymer is added to the gloves. In Chlorination, those gloves are
placed against chlorine solutions, either as in gas or acid form. These are done in order to
make materials used in it stronger.
At last, they are removed from the formers commonly known as the stripping phase. 
Nitrile gloves manufacturer has to maintain all these features when manufacturing nitrile
gloves. One can find detailed descriptions on products, quality and manufacturing of nitrile
gloves at https://www.riverstone.com.my/. Users can learn to understand their features
better.

Procedure 2:
The manufacturing equipment first runs ceramic, hand-shaped formers through water and
bleach to clean them and remove any residue. The formers then dry and are dipped in a
mixture of calcium carbonate and calcium nitrate, which helps the synthetic materials
coagulate around the formers. Then the formers dry again.
Machinery dips the formers into tanks of NBR or PVC. The following step involves heating
the materials at a high temperature to form the gloves as they dry.
To help nitrile gloves go on more easily, they undergo one of two processes: chlorination or
polymer coating. Chlorination involves exposing the gloves to chlorine—as an acid mixture
or gas—to harden the material and make it more slick. Polymer coating lubricates the glove
surface by adding a layer of polymer.
Finally, in what is known as the stripping phase, blasts of air remove the gloves from the
formers.

You might also like