Glove placing just got better

Doyen Medipharm, the specialist supplier of packaging and converting machinery to the medical industry, has recently supplied a second Automatic Glove Placing Unit to a confidential customer in Malaysia. The unit, known as the AGPM, presents cuffing mandrels to operators who load surgical gloves onto the mandrels. The mandrels are carried through a dedicated feed system where the gloves are re-orientated and presented to a placing station. The placing station removes the gloves from the mandrels and automatically presents the gloves in the correct position on the packaging web. The introduction of Doyen's AGPM removes the need for hand cuffing and hand placing of the gloves into the shadow box of the glove packaging unit. The old process was highly labour intensive and relied upon the operator placing the gloves accurately. The AGPM reduces labour required by up to 50%, improves the accuracy and consistency of the cuffing of the gloves, and also improves placement accuracy by a factor of at least 2. The improvement on the placement accuracy reduces the incidents of reject product entering the market, and reduces overall waste as a result of operator error by a factor of more than 50%.