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The global nitrile gloves market was valued at $9.4 billion in 2021, and is projected to reach $16.9 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 6.1% from 2022 to 2031. Rise in demand for nitrile gloves in the healthcare and medical sectors is largely driven by rise in need for high-quality protective gear to ensure hygiene and safety. Nitrile gloves offer superior protection against a wide range of chemicals, viruses, and bacteria, making them the preferred choice in medical environments. In addition, advancements in nitrile glove technology, such as improvements in durability, flexibility, and comfort, have further boosted their adoption. Enhanced manufacturing techniques have also allowed for better quality control, reducing defects and ensuring consistent performance, thus driving the growth of the nitrile gloves market.
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Introduction
Nitrile gloves are a type of synthetic rubber gloves made from acrylonitrile and butadiene, offering a high level of protection against chemicals, oils, and punctures. Known for their durability, flexibility, and resistance to tears and abrasions, nitrile gloves are commonly used in medical, laboratory, industrial, and food processing environments. Unlike latex gloves, nitrile gloves are hypoallergenic, making them a preferred choice for individuals with latex allergies. They provide a reliable barrier for various tasks, ensuring safety while maintaining comfort and dexterity.
Powder-free and powdered nitrile gloves are two major types of gloves available in the market. Powdered nitrile gloves consist of cornstarch powder that acts as donning agent. The powder content in nitrile gloves depend upon its intended application. For instance, nitrile gloves used in hospitals and healthcare centers uses high amount of powder content.
Nitrile gloves are anti-static in nature. They offer improved solvent resistance, are odor free, making them viable to be used across food and dairy applications. Nitrile gloves are capable of withstanding ISO Propyl Alcohol thus making them commonly used in food industry. Moreover, latex free origin and production technology make these gloves ideal for surgeons or doctors that tend to have latex allergy. Disposable nitrile gloves are synthetic gloves that are mainly used in dental application. Nitrile gloves are capable of withstanding or offering resistance with solvents and chemicals, making them viable and most widely used gloves by dental specialists and surgeons. In addition, these gloves are manufactured and tested through series of abrasion resistance tests and are approved by Food and Drug Administration for medical use. All these factors drive the growth of the global market.
However, less tactile sensitivity than latex gloves is anticipated to hamper the market growth. Conversely, surge in demand for durable nitrile gloves is anticipated to offer new growth opportunities in the global nitrile gloves market. Durable nitrile gloves offer high durability and improved safety in comparison to disposable nitrile gloves. Durable nitrile gloves offer high protection level against rips, snags, and wear & tear. In addition, this type of nitrile gloves offer advanced protection owing to low acceptable quality level (AQL). Durable nitrile gloves are recommended and widely used by healthcare professionals engaged in cancer treatment. Chemotherapy, a type of cancer treatment, includes use of several cytotoxic drugs and some medical devices that tend to emit harmful rays causing skin associated risk to healthcare professionals. Hence, use of durable nitrile gloves minimizes occupational illness.
The nitrile gloves market is segmented into Type, Product and End-use, and region. On the basis of type, the market is bifurcated into powdered and powder-free. By product, the market is divided into disposable and durable. By end-user, the market is categorized into medical & healthcare, automotive, oil & gas, food & beverage, metal & machinery, chemical & petrochemical, pharmaceutical, cleanroom, and others. Region wise, the market is studied across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.
The major companies profiled in this report include Adventa Berhad, ANSELL LTD, Carolina Glove & Safety Company, Dynarex Corporation, Kossan Rubber Industries Bhd, MCR Safety, Medline Industries, LP, Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad, Superior Glove, Top Glove Corporation Bhd, Unigloves (Uk), and Hartalega Holdings Berhad.
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The Asia-Pacific nitrile gloves market size is projected to grow at the highest CAGR of 6.6% during the forecast period and accounted for 28.6% of the nitrile gloves market share in 2021. Nitrile gloves are gaining importance in medical and healthcare industry owing to their health associated benefits is the key market trend. Health professional tend to wear gloves and are prone to increased risk of hand dermatitis. In addition, keeping hand clean and healthy hand skin condition is challenging for clinicians. In order to follow all the cleaning regulatory guidelines, health professional tend to use sanitizers and follow other convectional method for hand sanitizing. Thus, in order to prevent frequent hand sanitizing and cleaning, health professional tend to use hand gloves. Healthcare industry in Asia-Pacific is growing rapidly owing to change in demographics, technological developments, and support from governmental bodies. This factor is further anticipated to offer new growth opportunities in the nitrile gloves market.
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In 2021, the powder-free segment dominated the global market in terms of revenue in 2021, with over 80% of the total share. Powder-free nitrile gloves are anti-static in nature, offers improved solvent resistance, odor free, making them viable to be used across food and dairy applications. These nitrile gloves are capable of withstanding ISO Propyl Alcohol thus making them commonly used nitrile gloves in food industry. Moreover, latex free origin and production technology makes them ideal to be used for surgeons or doctors that tend have latex allergy.
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By product, the disposable product dominated the global market in terms of revenue in 2021 and is anticipated to grow at highest CAGR of 6.3% in the forecast period. Disposable nitrile gloves offer high level of protection, improved puncture resistance, and minimal abrasion for easier donning & doffing. Disposable nitrile gloves are synthetic gloves that are mainly used in dental application. Disposables gloves are capable of withstanding or offering resistance with solvents and chemicals making them viable and most widely used gloves by dental specialists and surgeons. In addition, disposable gloves are manufactured and tested through series of abrasion resistance tests and are approves by Food and Drug Administration for medical use.
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By end use industry, medical & healthcare industry dominated the global market in terms of revenue in 2021, with over 76% of the total share. Nitrile gloves that are used in medical and healthcare industry are formulated differently. Medical and healthcare nitrile gloves are proven to offers resistance with bodily fluids, microorganisms, and chemicals. In addition, owing to latex-free formulation, nitrile gloves are suitable to be used with health professional that are prone to Type I allergies. Majorly, powder-free nitrile gloves are used in medical and healthcare industry as these offers flexibility, tactility, tear and chemical resistance. Moreover, nitrile gloves can be formulated using special Nitrile formulation that makes them ideal to be used by healthcare professionals. Nitrile gloves used in medical & healthcare industry are ultra soft, latex and BPA free, stronger, and are tested & approved by ASTM D6319.
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