Private Label Glove Materials

Gore-Tex Gloves With A \”Plus\”: W.L. Gore Innovations Ahead!

Graphics: W.L. Gore & Associates Component suppliers play a huge role in the development of high performance gloves. Technical materials are crucial to how gloves wear and hold up under a wide range of conditions. So we reached out to our friends at W. L. Gore, to find out what’s new at the Gore-Tex® mother […]

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Warning, Innovation Ahead! A Glove Maker's Conversation with PrimaLoft®

There\’s lots of innovation happening at PrimaLoft®, one of the outdoor industry\’s leading suppliers.  Their team is working hard to make consumers a lot more comfortable, across a wide range of activities. We recently had the opportunity to ask what\’s new for 2014-5, and beyond. Get ready to learn what\’s ahead — we think you\’ll be inspired by their

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3 More Sourcing Strategies to Manage Rising Glove Costs

Rising prices are one of the greatest business challenges for retail buying organizations. The challenge is to manage costs in a way that doesn\’t affect the consumer appeal of your product. As we showed last week, value engineering your product is one cost management strategy we can use to do this. By being creative with

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Glove Manufacturers: Re-engineering Design to Offset Rising Costs

Labor costs, leather and other raw material costs, freight, costs associated with consumer safety testing … If the prospect of higher costs and lower margins keeps you up at night you are not alone. In a recent USFIA survey of fashion executives, 81% ranked rising sourcing costs as their greatest business challenge. Here\’s an approach

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Sports Gloves Innovation: The Making of the GaGa Glove

The founders of Talon Athletics were working at a local day camp when the idea of protecting players\’ hands for the game of GaGa stung them like a bee. Young players were getting hand injuries — the thin baseball batting and other fingerless gloves being worn in the GaGa pit were not protective enough. A

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Glove Manufacturer Toolkit: Designing Winter Gloves for All Budgets

The only thing worse than cold hands, is cold and wet hands. In a recent post, we covered warmth and insulation solutions. But client specs usually call for designing gloves that keep hands both warm AND dry. Today, we’ll talk about windproof and waterproof barriers, and other materials we can use to protect hands from

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Glove Company Challenge: Making Warmer Gloves

Until about 40 years ago, hands were protected with shell materials like heavy weight deerskin or bison and lined with fur or hand knit wool. Now we have a wide variety of technologies that make the outdoors a better experience in all weather conditions. Great materials exist. The glove designer\’s real challenge is to develop

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Glove Company: A Peek Behind the Product Planning Curtain

   If you manage a product line, it\’s a good idea to periodically conduct a line review.  Do you have a process to do this annually or biannnually? Today we\’ll pull back the curtain on our own product planning process. By sharing our process for analyzing customer needs, trends, and innovation … we hope you

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Leather Price Challenges: Glove Supplier Costs Continue to Rise

Two key leather fairs take place over the next two weeks.  Lineapelle will take place in Bologna this coming week.   APLF (Asia Pacific Leather Fair) will be the first few days of April. It seems that everyone involved in sourcing and producing leather products will be attending the leather fairs with more keen interest. Why? more

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Get a Grip! Manufacturing Gloves with Better Grip and Durability

Your glove brand should deliver on the key performance characteristics that matter most to your end user, and enhance his or her product experience. As glove manufacturers and designers, our goal is to help you do this, by raising the bar on glove performance, within your budget. With careful materials selection and design, you can

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