Merry Christmas from Aquila Gloves. We will be closed from the 23rd December 2019, reopening on 3rd January 2020.
The Aquila brand and their parent company Taste International are pleased to announce a program of evaluation and planning to deal with the recycling and energy issues around manufacture and use of industrial gloves.
We have recently committed to a program of eco-friendly operation and have started by removing all one-time-use plastic bags from our packaging by replacing with 100% recyclable non-woven polypropylene. Supported by our worldwide distribution network, we have taken on the additional cost as our contribution to solving this global problem. We have chosen non-woven polypropylene...
Spiral wound gloves in HPPE offer a best practice solution for long-term wear in cut risk environments. They are washable up to 14 times and still retain the same level of cut resistance making them excellent for food working, meat preparation, engineering, glass manufacturing, mining etc. HPPE based fabric is almost the ideal material from...
Taste International, as owners and manufacturers of the Aquila brand of industrial gloves, are aware that maintaining a smooth flow of consumables can be eased for large users and distributors by taking care of the relationships involved, setting up simple systems and developing trust between supplier and customer. Such advantageous relationships can enable cost reductions...
On site visits around the world we often see wrong gloves in the wrong working environment, cotton/nylon coated gloves in construction sites, for example where moving heavy objects is required. These gloves are not the best barrier for protection. We have observed that even in quarries and mines workers are using basic nylon coated gloves...
Market leading glove manufacturer Aquila have long recognised that injuries caused to hands are not confined to the palm of the hand or fingers, but also the back of the hands where hazards can lead to painful injuries with time lost from work - which is expensive for both workers and employers. This has led...
When the Aquila brand was launched in 2016, we set out to develop new materials together with a high value and highly technical glove range - inherent in that objective is the need to ensure that our protective gloves are both comfortable and with optimal protection. We can look at comfort/protection in a variety of...
The development of lightweight but highly effective, comfortable and hardwearing cut resistant gloves for all types of industrial environment is one of the little acknowledged success stories in health and safety technology. This has generally involved development and use of tougher materials, sometimes blended with steel threads and using traditional glove weaving technologies. In recent...