Impact Protection

The right materials ensure that users keep their gloves on and keep working longer, better and safer.

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According to Aquila (London, UK), workers frequently wear the wrong gloves, often because gloves are considered the lowest in the spectrum of safety gear. In the impact protection glove market, Aquila has chosen to use TPE (thermalplastic elastomer), or otherwise known as TPR (thermalplastic rubber), for impact pads for its comfort and wearability, so ensuring that users keep their gloves on and keep working longer, better and safer.

TPE/TPR is excellent for impact protection but is expensive compared to much cheaper and lower performing PVC as used in extreme low-cost items where the result is some 20-30% cheaper to make, but the trade-offs are that the PVC material is hard, hence increases hand fatigue and when PVC ages, it tends to become brittle and breaks. Also, it is less flexible and sometimes results in injury after long hours of wearing.

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