Malaysian Rubber Glove Industry

A worker removes a latex glove from a hand shaped model on a production line.

Malaysian rubber glove industry. In televisory s previous blog on an analysis of malaysian rubber glove industry it was analysed that the growth in the healthcare industry worldwide is one of the key drivers for the rubber gloves industry. Of the 65 000 employed in the rubber glove industry in 2015 about 42 000 were foreign workers. Malaysia produces about 65 per cent of the world s supply for rubber gloves. Malaysia s rubber glove industry is highly reliant on foreign workers to provide low cost manual labor.

A leading rubber glove producer malaysia has secured its spot in the world market being home to four top glove players including top glove hartalega kossan rubber and supermax and to date is already exporting gloves to over 195 countries worldwide. As per earlier statistics and market expectations margma malaysian rubber glove manufacturers association had projected demand of rubber gloves to reach 300 billion pieces in 2020 with an annual growth of 12 however the current outbreak of novel covid 19 has resulted in a 100 surge in demand globally in the first few months of 2020. Malaysia s low key rubber industry or more precisely glove making has became one of the hottest on the planet.