Malaysia's exports of latex gloves doubled in 2020
Malaysia's exports of latex gloves doubled in 2020
China rubber webex on May 28, according to foreign media reports, the minister of Malaysia farming and original strong horse sleeve during a visit to greater dingley pointed out that after gloves manufacturers, is the goal of the Malaysian government in 2020, the latex gloves production accounted for the proportion of the global market from the current 60% to 5%, up to 6 or increase exports to 30 billion ringgit, double - 2016 of 14.6 billion ringgit.
To this end, he encouraged reduce artificial practitioners, especially the dependence on foreign labor, using high-tech automation equipment production of latex gloves, and encourage companies to use local latex, reduce imports from neighbouring countries.
Malaysia's latex gloves were worth 14.6 billion yuan in 2016, accounting for 80.7 percent of the total export volume of the rubber industry (18.12 billion yuan), Mr. Ma said. There are 106 handsets in Malaysia, and last year, latex gloves produced 44.4 billion pairs, accounting for 60% of the global market.
In the first quarter of this year, the total exports of Malaysian latex gloves amounted to 4.02 billion yuan, up 26 percent from 3.2 billion in the same period last year, according to Mr. Ma.