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Stanley Thai, founder of Malaysian rubber glove manufacturer Supermax, is cutting out the middleman. Supermax, the world's second largest rubber glove producer, is now selling direct to consumers.

As a means of realizing savings, buyers (for example, England's National Health Service – trying to find £1bn of savings in its supply chain by 2016) may choose to buy direct from manufacturers rather than going through a disposable glove supplier middleman.

Of course, sourcing direct from a manufacturer does have its disadvantages. When taking advantage of Mr. Thai's new business model, the buyer assumes the following risks:

• Since manufacturers don't have mechanisms in place for customer support, service often lacks. They will first and foremost protect their larger client relationships, and customer service sometimes suffers.
• Wholesalers/importers take the risk of buying too much of one size and not enough of another, causing a supply imbalance.
• Returns could also be an issue. For example, the manufacturer could make the customer pay for return shipping and a restocking fee.

Read more about sourcing direct from the manufacturer in this article from The Telegraph.

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GlovesByWeb will be presenting a series of articles for your benefit by Dr. Robert Phalen.

In this series, Dr. Robert Phalen reveals best practices on hand safety. Dr. Phalen is one of the country's foremost experts in environmental health science, with a broad range of experience and thought leadership. GlovesByWeb has invited Dr. Phalen to share his expertise in a series of helpful articles.

Over a 32-month period, 153 Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals in the United States were studied to monitor a drop in the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. Rates had been relatively unchanged in the two years prior to the study.

The four-year strategy beginning in 2007 involved screening with nasal swabs, isolating anyone who tested positive, and requiring extra safety measures for staff who came in contact with those patients.

The result was a 62 percent drop in MRSA infections in intensive care units, and a 45 percent stop in surgical and rehab units.

The VA hospitals' effort to reduce the spread of deadly bacterial infections counters the popular notion that "infections are an unavoidable cost of doing business."

Visit the New York Times for the full article »

Over the past couple of years, we have been bombarded by bad news vis-à-vis world health issues. The number of outbreaks of different diseases around the world that are resistant to antibiotics is rising.

Where's the good news you ask? Due to the increase in drug-resistant diseases worldwide, new, innovative therapies are evolving along with an increase in antibiotic drug investment.

Who uses GlovesByWeb as their large volume disposable glove supplier?  Casinos in the Midwest and Southwest have been getting their gloves shipped to them by GlovesByWeb in volume.  With an average hotel size in the casinos of 290 rooms, the demands of food and beverage service staff, housekeeping, environmental services and even bellhops are high.

What are they buying?  The majority of the disposable gloves supplied by GlovesByWeb to casinos are vinyl, primarily used by food and beverage service.  Housekeeping generally uses nitrile gloves with a minority still using latex gloves.  Environmental services generally uses nitrile as well.

For a high demand, high volume industry like casinos, GlovesByWeb's high quality products, large volume shipment capabilities and an inventory with the necessary variety of disposable glove materials, whether it be nitrile, latex or vinyl, makes it a sure bet!

Contact us to find out how we can meet your needs.