Gloves are among the most commonly used and purchased Personal Protective Equipment because they play a crucial role in ensuring safety during various work activities. Choosing the right material is essential for providing effective protection against workplace hazards. This guide offers a detailed overview of the different categories of gloves, each with its unique characteristics based on the materials used, along with practical advice on their appropriate use in various work environments.

LEATHER SAFETY GLOVES

Natural, breathable, durable, flexible, and long-lasting, leather is the most commonly used material for making gloves to protect against mechanical risks. It is ideal for industries such as construction, metalworking, maintenance, DIY, logistics, and warehousing.

– Cowhide grain leather: soft, repellent, and puncture-resistant.

– Cowhide split leather: breathable, fireproof, and with high mechanical resistance.

Combining these two types of leather provides the perfect combination of properties: the grain leather palm offers great dexterity and abrasion resistance, while the split leather or cotton canvas back provides exceptional breathability.

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The GU111 welder’s glove is made of premium cowhide split leather, fully lined, and with reinforced para-aramid yarn seams, it is extremely durable and heavy-duty, particularly suitable for welding jobs and protecting against heat in general.

COATED GLOVES

Gloves crafted from synthetic yarns like Nylon or Polyester provide a comfort level akin to cotton gloves, yet boast superior mechanical durability. The coating applied to these PPE gloves, crafted seamlessly without elastic bands, ensures an impeccable fit while delivering added functional benefits. This renders them especially suitable for tasks demanding outstanding grip capability. Furthermore, depending on the coating type, they can effectively withstand exposure to oils, hydrocarbons, and greases.

 – POLYURETHANE COATING: Enhances sensitivity by allowing the hand to breathe while providing protection against abrasion. Ideal for precision tasks, dry assembly, and handling goods.

 – NITRILE COATING: offers excellent grip even on wet or oily surfaces. Ideal for painting jobs, DIY, shipyards, and activities involving oils. 

– LATEX COATING: thanks to its natural elasticity, it provides excellent tear resistance, unrivalled comfort, and grip. Ideal for logistics and warehouse jobs, gardening, and DIY.

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The GGC095 X-ICE glove, with its double coating of natural latex with a sandy finish, polyester outer coating, and acrylic inner lining, is also resistant to cold, heat, and liquid repellent.

NBR – Coated Gloves

NBR PPE gloves are crafted from nitrile, a synthetic rubber also known as Buna-N or Perbunan, from which the abbreviation NBR is derived. This material offers protection against abrasion and resistance to hydrocarbons, oils, and acids. The gloves are coated onto a jersey cotton support, which absorbs sweat and keeps the hand dry. They are ideal for industries such as metalworking, goods handling, infrastructure, logistics and warehousing, waste disposal, and DIY activities.

ARAMID FIBRE GLOVES

Aramid fibre gloves provide outstanding protection against thermal hazards, such as convective and radiant heat, as well as small splashes of molten metal, and mechanical risks like abrasion, cutting, tearing, and puncturing. Ideal for foundries, furnaces, and ovens, they incorporate aramid fibre with a cotton inner lining and Kevlar thread stitching, which is highly resistant to heat and tension, ensuring maximum heat protection. The aluminum-coated aramid fibre shields against both contact and radiant heat.

LATEX GLOVES

Latex, a natural material, is prized for its natural feel, elasticity, and comfort. Derived from the bark of the Hevea Brasiliensis Tree, it boasts enhanced resistance to punctures and tears. It’s especially well-suited for tasks involving contact with biological materials or for activities like cleaning, sanitizing, and food handling.

To mitigate the risk of latex protein allergies, Rossini gloves undergo a deproteinization process during production, significantly reducing the incidence of sensitization.

– MULTI-PURPOSE LATEX GLOVES: ideal for the metal industry, chemical industry, cleaning, parts assembly, maintenance, metallurgical, and construction.

– DISPOSABLE LATEX GLOVES: Disposable latex gloves fit perfectly on the hand, becoming like a second skin. Ideal for the automotive industry, chemical industry, analysis, medical-hospital, care and first aid, food, hospitality, construction, agriculture, hobbies, and DIY.

NITRILE GLOVES

Resistant to rips, punctures, and abrasions, nitrile gloves, also known as NBR (Nitrile Butadiene Rubber), are made of a synthetic material that provides elasticity similar to latex, but without the associated allergy risks.

– NITRILE MULTI-PURPOSE GLOVES: These gloves combine mechanical strength with chemical protection, offering reliability and safety against solvents, oils, greases, aliphatic hydrocarbons, and acids.

They are ideal for use in the automotive and chemical industries, as well as for handling and assembling mechanical parts, cleaning tasks, petrochemical work, and food processing.

– DISPOSABLE NITRILE GLOVES: Offering mechanical strength and durability while ensuring comfort.

Ideal for automotive, chemical, analysis, medical-hospital, care and first aid services, food industry, hospitality, construction, agriculture, hobbies, and DIY.

In order to choose the glove that best fits your needs, it’s crucial to assess the specific risks associated with your activity. We encourage you to refer to our guide on choosing the ideal glove, where you’ll find valuable information regarding the regulations that outline the necessary requirements.

Since 1969, ROSSINI TRADING S.p.A. has been renowned for its production and distribution of clothing and PPE. In 2023, we expanded our product range by introducing “X-GLOVES,” a new line of safety gloves designed to provide maximum hand protection against a wide range of risks, including mechanical, chemical, thermal, low temperatures, cutting, and welding.