Winter PVC Gloves

Winter PVC Gloves

Polyvinyl Chloride, abbreviated as PVC, is the world’s third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene. It’s widely used in construction for pipe and in profile applications such as doors and windows. It’s also making bottles, food covering sheets and as the material of PVC gloves.

Features

1. Nice hand feeling and high quality, comfortable, reduce hand fatigue.

2. Offering dexterity and tactile sensitivity.

3. Long cuff design measures from fingertips to bottom of the cuff, can protect wrists and forearms well. Jersey liner lining allows for easy on and off flexibility.

4. Spray PVC coated with textured grip for excellent handling in any condition. In the surface of the coating, it has thousands of micropores, creating a vacuum space to disperse the liquid.

5. Abrasion resistance, anti-water, anti-oil, anti-chemical and protection against noxious, hazardous gas, good chemical corrosive resistant, etc.

6. PVC has poor resistance to hot water and is not recommended for use above 78 degrees.

Applications

Oil resistant PVC gloves are widely used in many industries, like chemical handling, oil refining, food processing, household, maintenance, construction works, fishing, agriculture, greening industry, refuse collection, light industry, heavy industry, etc.

Factors to consider for chemical hazards

No single gloves material can offer complete protection from all substances and chemical. Each glove is liable to damage or failure by degradation or permeation by some chemicals and damage from other sources such as heat or mechanical damages.

So dealing with different chemicals in different working conditions, there are different material gloves recommended. The best choice is usually the gloves with the greatest resistance to the chemical with the fastest breakthrough time. In some cases, it may be necessary to double gloves when no single type of glove material will provide full protection, and in this case, it’s advisable to select two types materials of chemical resistant gloves or you should contact your manufacturer for more details.

Chemical Resistance Guides

Guides can provide recommendations based on permeation, breakthrough time, permeation rates and degradation of the material.

Permeation: measured in milligrams per square meter per second (mg/m2/sec) is the measured steady-state flow of the permeating chemical through the gloves elastomer. Glove thickness plays an important role in resistance to permeation.

Permeation rate: is the speed at which the chemical moves through the material after breakthrough.

Breakthrough time: is defined as the elapsed time between initial contact of the liquid chemical with the outside surface of the glove and the time at which the permeation rate reaches 0.1mg/m3/sec. When a breakthrough occurs, the glove is no longer providing adequate protection.

Degradation: Degradation is a deleterious change in one or more of the glove’s physical properties. The most obvious forms of degradation are the loss of the glove’s strengthen and excessive swelling-several published degradation lists.

Penetration: in contrast to permeation, refers to the bulk flow of a chemical through physical spaces in the material.