Leather Glove Manufacturing

As we highlight on the opening leather page, leather goods are one of the oldest known commodities made. newbb电子平台 Safety has been supplying leather gloves to multiple industries since the 1970s. Initially operating as Memphis Glove, today, companies recognize us only as newbb电子平台 Safety. Since 1988, newbb电子平台 Safety has been manufacturing our own high-quality, cut-n-sew leather work gloves that protect the hands of workers across multiple industries. Today, with the recent expansion of NXG Intelligent Manufacturing , one of our most distinguishing qualities is that we directly manufacture over 2/3 of all gloves we offer!

Our knowledge as a manufacturer helps us evaluate leather sources of supply to assure reliable quality and competitive pricing. With leather work gloves, this is especially important as the market is influenced by demand from industries such as automotive, furniture, sports, and apparel. Other factors, such as the cost to raise beef cattle, grazing conditions, drought, and people’s overall consumption of beef, also affect the price of hides. With our knowledge of production costs, we have been able to better evaluate other leather glove vendors for sourcing many of our economy leather glove work styles.

Leather Glove Manufacturing Stages

So, how do you make leather work gloves? There are three stages to manufacturing leather, with a multitude of sub-stages involved during the process. Here is a quick look into the world of leather manufacturing.

Leather Tanning

1.

Preparatory Stage

1. Raw material soucing - Hides are sourced

2.

Wet Operations

2. Soaking - Hides are soaked for 24 hours to remove salt.
3. Liming - Leather hides are immersed in an alkali solution; liming opens up the hide, eliminating unnecessary oils and greases.
4. Flaying and Fleshing - Removes excess properties from the flesh side.
5. Splitting - The outer layer of the hide is split into multiple layers.
6. Tanning - Tanning is a process that involves tannin , the agent that displaces water from the leather hides and cements the fibers together. Making raw hides into leather involves chromium salts and sulphate that make the leather soft. At this point, the hide is referred to as a blue hide.

7. Sammiering - presses the water out of the hides
8. Shaving and Trimming - Removal of leather hide parts, such as outer edges.
9. Dyeing - Leather hides are put into a large drum and then tumbled, allowing the dye to penetrate the leather fibers.

3.

Dry Operations

The steps outlined below involve enhancing the physical properties of the leather.

10. Dying - Requires specific climate conditions; otherwise, hides are damaged.
11. Staking - Improves softness and feel of leather.
12. Dry Milling - Hides are tumbled in rotating drums to soften or enhance the grain.
13. Buffing - Hides are run through a machine with an abrasive cylinder designed to remove the top surface.
14. Finishing - Improves color and abrasion resistance.
15. Quality hide selections - Hides are graded based on scars and flaws.
16. Pressing, Plating, and Printing - Add carving and logos to hides.
17. Trimming - Excess areas of leather are trimmed up.
18. Packing - Final leather raw materials are stored before manufacturing gloves.

What we’ve covered above is only the necessary stages involved with manufacturing leather. Now begins the leather glove manufacturing stage. Glove manufacturing requires great sewing skills and is extremely labor-intensive.

Leather Glove Processing

Each sewer has a specific sewing operation, adding one component in an assembly process until the glove is completely constructed inside out.

1. All glove components are die cut with the use of hydraulic stamping machines.
2. A visual grading process of the components is performed to ensure greater consistency of color and cosmetic appearance.
3. The last component to be added is our cuffing material.
4. Gloves must now be turned right side out.
5. Another visual inspection is performed before packaging.

newbb电子平台 Safety Eyewear Manufacturing

Last but not least, newbb电子平台 Safety manufactures safety glasses in directly-owned operating facilities. In 2019, newbb电子平台 Safety upgraded its eyewear manufacturing facility to produce the first-ever UV-AF eyewear incorporating highly efficient, environmentally-friendly product equipment.