Malaysia s rubber glove industry is highly reliant on foreign workers to provide low cost manual labor.
Malaysian rubber glove industry.
A leading rubber glove producer malaysia has secured its spot in the world market being home to four top glove players including top glove hartalega kossan rubber and supermax and to date is already exporting gloves to over 195 countries worldwide.
Malaysia s low key rubber industry or more precisely glove making has became one of the hottest on the planet.
Malaysia produces about 65 per cent of the world s supply for rubber gloves.
Malaysia also faces competition from lower cost countries such as indonesia and thailand as labor and operating costs rise.
Moreover rubber gloves make up more than 70 of all the rubber good exports for malaysia.
A worker removes a latex glove from a hand shaped model on a production line.
Of the 65 000 employed in the rubber glove industry in 2015 about 42 000 were foreign workers.