To our valued Glove Group Customers,

As a result of 2+ years of rising commodities prices and cost increases, The Glove Group has been forced to raise our prices. Please note that commodities prices ebb and flow and we are all hoping for a decrease, so that we can re-adjusts our prices.

As a direct model supplier of exam gloves, we strongly believe that we remain the competitive choice for exam gloves for your business. If you have any questions, please feel free to call or email.

For a further explanation, please see below.

The Price of Latex and Nitrile Exam Gloves is affected by many factors as they move from the factory to the end user. One of the largest factors is the commodities price of the raw latex or nitrile materials used in the exam gloves.

Nitrile pricing is rising in response to two main factors:

1. A global increase in demand for nitrile gloves
2. Rising oil priices as nitrile is a specialized petro-chemical

Latex pricing has risen 200% in the last three years as demand exceeds supply. This is due to two main factors:

1. An increase in global demand for raw rubber, most notably in China where there is an exploding demand for raw rubber to be used for tires.
2. A decrease in supply due to excessive rains and mudslides in the largest rubber producing regions of the world. A large percentage of the rubber producing trees were lost to these weather realated events and it takes approximately 6 years before a new rubber tree can be tapped.