Labor protection equipment exhibition | Key Technology Project for High-Protection Comfort Special Anti-Cutting Gloves Successfully Passes Achievement Appraisal
The China National Textile and Apparel Council organized an achievement appraisal meeting in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, for the “Development and Industrialization of Key Technologies for High-Protection Comfort Special Anti-Cutting Gloves” project completed by Jiangsu Kexu Textile Technology Co., Ltd. and Soochow University. The appraisal committee concluded that the project achievements have reached an internationally advanced level. This protective equipment achievement, which combines technological innovation with industrial value, has also garnered significant attention from the industry at the Labor protection equipment exhibition.
Mechanical cutting injuries are prone to occur everywhere and are widely present in industrial production, daily household tasks, and outdoor sports training scenarios. They not only easily cause physical limb injuries, affecting health and normal work and life, but also impose a heavy burden on individuals, families, industrial and mining enterprises, and even society as a whole, generating substantial direct medical expenses and indirect economic losses from work absences and production shutdowns. As an indispensable core labor protection and safety equipment in industrial production, anti-cutting gloves, with their excellent anti-cutting, anti-scratch, and anti-mechanical impact properties, are widely used in high-risk industries such as petrochemicals, metallurgical forging, shipbuilding, automotive parts processing, construction, and firefighting emergency response, with sustained and strong market demand.
Currently, anti-cutting gloves on the market mainly use high-strength fiber filaments to wrap metal or glass fiber filaments to produce covered yarns, which are then further woven into gloves. However, although metal materials offer excellent anti-cutting performance, their poor resilience makes them prone to separating from other fibers during yarn or fabric production. Additionally, existing anti-cutting gloves generally suffer from insufficient internal friction, causing slippage between the glove and skin during wear and increasing safety risks.
The project aims to break through the current technical bottlenecks of anti-cutting gloves by developing innovative high-anti-cutting yarns that combine high anti-cutting performance, structural stability, and comfortable softness. It further seeks to develop anti-cutting gloves suitable for complex working conditions requiring high flexibility, lightweight design, heavy oil environments, and high-temperature splash resistance. This technical solution not only enhances wearing comfort and flexibility but also significantly improves protective effectiveness, promising to drive the overall optimization of protective equipment performance.
The project developed composite core-spun yarns composed of ultra-fine high-strength staple fibers covering low-elongation skeleton core yarns and anti-cutting metal wires, solving the application problem of exposed metal core yarns and improving the anti-deformation and anti-cutting stability of the gloves. It also developed cyclic phosphate ester/nano magnesium hydroxide organic/inorganic composite flame retardants, achieving efficient loading of flame retardants on polyester fabrics, enhancing the fabrics’ flame retardancy, smoke suppression, and anti-dripping properties, and improving the ability of welding gloves to resist molten metal splashes. Additionally, the project independently developed an irregular 3D hand mold cold stretching and setting process, overcoming the limitations of traditional flat plate processes, enhancing glove fit and anti-deformation capability, and improving the comfort of anti-cutting gloves.
At present, the special anti-cutting composite core-spun yarns and series finished anti-cutting gloves developed by the project have achieved full mature industrialization and large-scale mass production, with high technical maturity and stable, reliable quality. They have been successfully promoted and applied to multiple leading well-known enterprises in the domestic labor protection and safety field. From market practical application and end-user feedback, this new type of special anti-cutting glove demonstrates outstanding performance in anti-cutting protection level, hand activity flexibility, long-term wearing comfort, and durability under working conditions. It can fully cover the safety protection needs of multiple fields and scenarios including industrial manufacturing, shipbuilding and marine engineering, construction and firefighting, and vocational training. The successful research and development and industrialization of this core technology have not only elevated the overall technical level and product grade of China’s special labor protection gloves, filled the domestic gap in high-end anti-cutting protective equipment, but also promoted coordinated development of upstream and downstream industrial chains, creating favorable market economic benefits and industry-demonstration social benefits.
Source: https://www.ctn1986.com/index.php?c=content&a=show&id=118370
