Mercator Medical
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Mercator Medical maintains a staff of well-trained and experienced engineers and quality control personnel to ensure our production always comply with the reliable standards and requirements.

People are the essential ingredients of our organization, and the key elements of our success.

Gloves - the most important in hand protection

The factory is fitted with modern stock of machinery, which is manned by experienced workers .

It is regularly controlled to ensure quality of each stage of the production.

The basic raw material used to produce gloves is latex. It is obtained from Hevae brasiliencis.

The tree bark is tapped and a white, milky liquid flows into the tapping cups.

Latex collection is done early in the morning between 5 and 10 a.m. as the latex can spoil and if it is not collected at the right time it changes its physical properties in warm temperature, becomes more sticky and hardens.

At the collection centers the fresh latex is centrifuged, pre-treated and "matures" for 21 days.

Both the quality of latex and the composition of chemical mixture used in the production process influence the quality of the final product.

At the next production stage the porcelain formers are dipped in acid and basic solution, brushed, rinsed with hot water and dried.
Dry formers are coated with coagulant which prevents latex from adhering to them during the production process.

Following coagulation, the formers are put into an oven where they undergo thermal treatment after which they are dipped in latex and again go into the oven where they are vulcanized.

Vulcanization is necessary to obtain the final form and properties of the glove.

Before and after vulcanization gloves, while still on the formers are leached in a bath of hot water to wash out chemicals and proteins. The water in which the gloves are leached, is constantly changed which guarantees that the washed-out allergens do not go back into circulation.

Next the gloves on the formers are powdered with corn starch in the liquid form.

Then they are dried in hot air and removed from the formers.
At every stage ISO-compliant quality control is performed.
Finally the gloves are air checked, packaged and made ready for shipment.

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