In televisory s previous blog on an analysis of malaysian rubber glove industry it was analysed that the growth in the healthcare industry worldwide is one of the key drivers for the rubber gloves industry.
Malaysian rubber glove industry.
Malaysia s low key rubber industry or more precisely glove making has became one of the hottest on the planet.
Malaysia also faces competition from lower cost countries such as indonesia and thailand as labor and operating costs rise.
Malaysia remains the world s leading supplier of medical gloves examination and surgical gloves supplying more than 50 of the global.
A worker removes a latex glove from a hand shaped model on a production line.
Malaysia s rubber glove industry is highly reliant on foreign workers to provide low cost manual labor.
Moreover rubber gloves make up more than 70 of all the rubber good exports for malaysia.
Of the 65 000 employed in the rubber glove industry in 2015 about 42 000 were foreign workers.