If you’ve used AIC Black Nitrile (GPNB) disposable gloves, you know that they are the perfect combination of strength, dexterity, and comfort.
Now these versatile and dependable gloves can claim another important benefit: They are also free of silicone, which means the gloves will not transfer silicone residue and contaminate a project.
Silicone is a lubricant, so it prevents adhesion—and if a glove user is working with a material that needs to stick, like automotive finishing, having silicone present can cause surface defects and lead to a poor-quality final coat. This also applies to airplane manufacturing and any production plant that is working with paint and or bonding/adhesive applications.
Working on motors? Get AIC
If anyone should gravitate toward using disposable gloves in the course of their work, it is technicians who repair motorized vehicles.
Whether you’re fixing cars or trucks (or motorcycles or airplanes or Ski Doos or whatever), you are dealing with enough harsh chemicals, sharp edges, and hot surfaces for your hands to be screaming—metaphorically, of course—“Protect us!!”
Curiously, however, throughout history mechanics have often shunned single-use hand protection. Why? Probably because gloves were always an essential tool in medical environments, but not so in industrial realms. New ideas often take a long time to catch on.
Next stop could be urgent care
Bare-handing everything may be tradition, but it’s also a recipe for disaster and an inefficient way to work. Holding on to tools with greasy, oily hands is challenging enough. Poking around an engine compartment and exposing your fingers to multiple hazards is far from the best plan.
These days, it’s safe to say that a majority of mechanics and auto techs are wearing single-use gloves. It’s true that engines are more computerized than ever, but somebody still needs to get their hands dirty with oil and transmission fluid. The quick-lube crews doing oil changes are using lighter 3-mil nitrile gloves (such as X3 Black Nitrile)—and that is a wise choice for them. But thicker AIC Black Nitrile and AIC with Raised Diamond Texture are constructed with heavier-duty tasks in mind.
Our nitrile disposable gloves set the industry standard well more than a decade ago. Since then we have become the leading independent distributor of single-use industrial gloves in North America. Our AIC brand is synonymous with top-quality hand protection, and our service is renowned for helping customers find the right glove for the job, every time.
10 years later and still protecting
Since its introduction around 2014, RDT has become a sensation across all market segments. The reason is simple: These durable gloves—in 8-mil orange and green, or 6-mil black and royal blue—remove a lot of the reluctance some folks have about single-use hand protection. It’s a product that once you try it, you’re hooked, plain and simple.
