Malaysian rubber glove exports this year expected to grow 6%

It is reported that, despite raw material prices go up, leading to local rubber glove industry in Malaysia to increase product prices, but the Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers Association predicted that Ma rubber gloves this year, exports are still expected to achieve 6 percent growth.

The Chamber of Commerce, said Ma to promote continued growth in exports of rubber gloves is the world's rubber gloves for the increasing consumption, in addition to the traditional imports of foreign countries, such as Europe and the United States, China, India and other countries on the demand for rubber gloves are on the rise. In addition, according to the newspaper, the U.S. International Trade Commission for acrylonitrile-butadiene latex gloves 337 of the preliminary results of the survey, Ma is also the manufacturer rubber gloves good news.

Over the past few years, the global market demand for rubber gloves every year to grow at a rate of 10% of the current global market consumption is about 65,000,000,000 pairs. Malaysia remains the world's largest producer of rubber gloves, and their products account for 65% of the share of the world. In 2007, Malaysia exported a total amount of rubber gloves RM 5,880,000,000, an increase of 9.2 percent. At present, the EU has replaced the United States as Malaysia's largest rubber glove exports destination.