From Medical Gloves to Heavy-Duty Industrial Hand Protection

Glove Dipping Technology

There is an enormous variety of protective gloves on the market, and many of them are manufactured entirely or partly by a dipping process. Dutch Dipping Technologies has many years of experience in the design and supply of dipping equipment for glove production.

Some gloves are produced directly on a hand former, while industrial work gloves can be manufactured by placing a textile or knitted liner on the former and dipping only the fingertips, palm, three-quarter area or the complete glove.

Gloves That Can Be Produced by Dipping

Glove type	Typical material / coating	Dipping method
Examination gloves	Natural rubber latex, nitrile, PVC/vinyl	Fully dipped
Surgical gloves	Natural rubber latex, synthetic polyisoprene, neoprene/chloroprene	Fully dipped
Electrical insulating gloves	Natural rubber latex / specialised compounds	Fully dipped, multiple layers
Chemical-resistant gloves	Latex, nitrile, neoprene, PVC	Fully dipped or supported
Laboratory gloves	Latex, nitrile, neoprene	Fully dipped
Cleanroom / isolator gloves	Nitrile, neoprene, natural rubber latex and specialised elastomers	Fully dipped
Household gloves	Latex, nitrile, PVC	Fully dipped
Heavy-duty rubber gloves	Latex, nitrile, neoprene	Fully dipped or supported
Sandblasting gloves	Heavy-duty rubber / elastomer compounds	Fully dipped or supported
Industrial work gloves	Latex, nitrile, neoprene, PVC, PU	Partially or fully coated liner
Palm-coated gloves	Latex, nitrile, PU, PVC	Palm and fingers dipped
Three-quarter dipped gloves	Latex, nitrile, PVC	Three-quarter coating
Fully coated work gloves	Latex, nitrile, neoprene, PVC	Textile liner fully dipped
Fingertip-coated gloves	Nitrile, PU and other coatings	Fingertips dipped
Foam-coated gloves	Nitrile foam, latex foam	Palm or three-quarter dip
Double-dipped gloves	Nitrile, latex or combinations	Two or more coating layers

Unsupported and Supported Gloves

Unsupported gloves are formed directly on the hand former by one or more dipping cycles. This production method is used for many disposable, medical, household, electrical and chemical-protection gloves.

Household glove dipping line with white hand formers, dipping tanks and drying ovens

Supported gloves start with a knitted or textile liner fitted onto the hand former. The liner can then be dipped on the fingertips, palm, three-quarter area or completely coated. This technology is widely used for industrial and mechanical work gloves.

Black and white photo: a woman fitting knitted glove liners onto metal hand formers on a glove dipping line

One Product Group – Many Machine Solutions

It would be impossible to describe every individual glove production machine on one website. Glove design, material, coating thickness, production capacity and required process all determine the best machine configuration.

For most of the glove types listed above, Dutch Dipping Technologies can supply or develop the required production equipment.

This can range from flexible dipping robots and smaller production systems to specialised industrial glove machines and complete continuous dipping lines. The machine can be designed around your glove, your required production capacity and your preferred dipping material.

3D drawing of a latex examination glove dipping line with hand formers on a chain above a large latex dipping tank — Our largest latex examination glove dipping line: three formers on the left and three on the right of each holder, with the large latex dipping tank this requires. Latex dipping tank for examination gloves with the highest output.

Ask Us – We Will Find a Solution

Do you want to manufacture a glove by dipping, or do you already have a glove product and need a new production solution? Send us your glove specification, sample, drawing or required capacity.

Tell Dutch Dipping what you want to produce.
We will propose a practical dipping solution for your product.

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