Safety & Security

Stanley Thai: 'we'll profit from NHS savings drive'

“I bought low, sold high and laughed all the way to the bank. I could make $60,000 gross profit on one 20ft container. My only costs were my own salary and office expenses – mainly sending faxes.”

Thai soon went full time. At 29, just two years after he’d started trading, he made his first million dollars. He used a subsequent crash in the rubber price in 1989 to buy cheap manufacturing facilities from weakened competitors. Since 1994, Supermax has built a factory every two years. It also has distribution centres in Brazil, Germany, Australia, Belgium and the US, where it makes the majority of its revenues.

Last year’s sales of $310m are expected to grow by 20pc this year. The company also recently opened up a sales office in Germany and Thai says he’d been surprised how easily and cheaply he’s been able to pick up European graduate talent. “We can get people for €18,000 a year. On the manufacturing side, we’d like engineers from the UK. I get people fresh – 80pc of our senior management we originally got directly from school.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Technology Company Apollomax Helps Glove Industry by Significantly ...

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APOLLOMAX, LLC, a Wilmington-based manufacturing and proprietary products application company, announced today that they have secured an exclusive global licensing agreement with O'Neill Innovations surrounding their patent pending technology which will create a new standard of excellence in the glove industry.

Protecting hands in the workplace continues to be a huge safety concern. "When hands or parts are slippery, workers can be seriously injured, equipment might become damaged, production delays could occur, all causing a significant increase in costs affecting the bottom line," states Ron Kyle, President and co-founder of Apollomax. "We've created Maxfit ® gloves that uses cutting edge polymer technology, which creates a performance glove that excels in grip, dexterity, comfort, safety and overall hand health....

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Tackling cotton glove waste in the packaging industry :: Rajapack ...

by admin

With the current focus on recycling and reducing waste in the production of packaging materials, many packaging suppliers neglect the environmental impact of items used in the production of packaging materials, with cotton gloves being a case in point.

Cotton gloves are used in a wide variety of applications across the packaging industry. They are a cheap and effective way of protecting employee’s hands as they work with delicate items, and also protecting the items themselves from being marked or damaged when handled.

However, the production of cotton gloves can be environmentally harmful due to the various bleaches and chemicals involved in their manufacture, and gloves can wear out relatively quickly, making cotton gloves a significant element of a company’s carbon footprint.

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