Frost & Sullivan: Saturated Disposable Gloves Market Uses Novel Materials to Tap New Revenue Opportunities

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Frost & Sullivan: Saturated Disposable Gloves

Market Uses Novel Materials to Tap New

Revenue Opportunities

PR Newswire

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 20, 2012

- Latex gloves make way for synthetic or lower-protein latex

alternatives

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California

,

June 20, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- The North American

disposable gloves market has made continual, although tepid progress, over

the last few decades because of recurring demand from the medical segments.

While the medical disposable gloves segment is saturated, certain underserved

end-users, such as alternate care, dentistry, and long-term care, offer

opportunities for growth.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.chemicals.frost.com),

Analysis

of the North American Disposable Gloves Market

, finds that the market

earned revenues of

$2.81 billion

in 2011 and estimates this to reach

$3.22

billion

in 2016, boosted by increasing safety regulations and end-user

awareness regarding hygiene, risk of contamination and infection.

If you are interested in more information on this research, please send an

email to Jeannette Garcia, Corporate Communications, at

[e-mail], with your full name, company name, job title,

telephone number, company email address, company website, city, state and

country.

The non-medical segment is not as highly penetrated as the medical segment,

due to the lack of regulations and awareness. Disposable gloves are finding

increasing application in segments such as advanced technology, service and

food industries, which are not traditional users of this product. The low entry

barriers attract more participants to the already overcrowded market and

create pricing pressures. This increase in price pressure restrains the average

selling price and, in turn, overall revenues of the disposable gloves market.

Further, the volatile raw material prices of both natural and synthetic rubber

have placed additional pressure on suppliers to revise product prices many

times a year. This creates dissatisfaction among the highly price-sensitive end-

users.

"In this scenario, suppliers can improve uptake by educating potential users

about the associated high costs of treating hospital-acquired infections," said

Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Anita Pamu. "Non-medical end-users are also

realizing the importance of wearing gloves, but the pace of uptake depends on

them being aware of their choices and picking a task-appropriate glove."

Another consequence of the price fluctuations is that the cost of latex has

increased significantly over the past 12 months. This has dissipated the cost

advantage latex had over synthetics. For example, the synthetic material nitrile

is rapidly gaining ground in the market, and by cause many branded

manufacturers are developing product lines using this commodity.

"There has been a continued conversion to synthetic or gloves that contain

lower protein due to concerns of latex allergies," said Pamu. "Moreover,