Every year, over 100 billion nitrile rubber gloves are produced. They are made from synthetic polymers—a material chemically related to plastic and derived from crude oil. The vast majority is used in ...

Scientists turned disposable rubber gloves into a reusable material that captures CO2, offering a new way to cut emissions and reduce waste.

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Researchers have found a way to convert discarded nitrile rubber gloves into a material capable of capturing carbon dioxide, according to a study published in the journal Chem by Cell Press. The ...

An employee monitors latex gloves on hand-shaped molds moving along an automated production line at a Top Glove Corp. factory in Selangor, Malaysia on Feb. 18, 2020. An employee monitors latex gloves ...

HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rubber glove makers have rivalled Zoom Video Communications as a popular pandemic trade. A quadrupling in the shares of Malaysia’s Top Glove, the world’s largest ...

The first healthcare workers to use rubber gloves didn't don them for hygienic reasons, but for dermatological ones. Caroline Hampton, a niece of the Confederate general and future South Carolina ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s Top Glove, the world’s largest maker of rubber gloves, said Wednesday that it hopes swiftly to end a U.S. ban on its products after one of its shipments was seized ...