Tour The Creepy Factory Full Of Hands Where Rubber Gloves Are Made
The world uses an estimated 100 billion rubber gloves each year in the medical business alone. To produce this kind of quantity, large factories will produce up to 45,000 rubber gloves per hour!
Rubber gloves are manufactured in surprisingly creepy hand factories. Here's an inside peek into these hand-filled factories and how rubber gloves are made. Science Channel's great series "How It's Made," shows the process by which many products we use today are mass produced and is the source for most of the information in this post. They also have videos on how chocolate chip cookie dough, lace, and soap sculptures are made, among many others.
The factories use dozens of ceramic or aluminum hand-shaped molds attached to conveyor belts. The conveyor belts move the reusable hands to various dipping stations. The first two stations, shown below, are solutions first of water and soap and then bleach that remove any residual material from the former run.
After the hands are scrubbed clean and dipped into a vat of hot water, they enter a chemical bath. The chemicals coat the hand molds that then enables the liquid rubber to stick to the hands. The rubber substance won't adhere to ceramic directly. Watch the chemical coating process below.See the entire clip from the Science Channel's "How It's Made."
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