Gloves.co.uk

Gloves.co.uk, online store for work and protective gloves

Gloves.co.uk is a British e-commerce business dedicated to the sale of gloves and hand protection equipment. Its catalogue is organised by styles, uses, materials, resistance levels and brands, and covers both reusable work gloves and disposable gloves. The website itself presents itself as the UK destination for gloves and hand protection.

Catalogue by styles and performance

The store groups gloves according to their technical characteristics. Featured categories include cut-resistant, thermal, rubber, waterproof, heat-resistant, touchscreen, chemical-resistant, grip and fingerless gloves. It also offers a disposable gloves section with nitrile, latex and vinyl varieties, in colours such as black, blue, clear, pink, purple, red, white and yellow, and powder-free options.

Gloves by professional use

The site allows searching by trade or activity. The list of uses includes, among others, gloves for builders, gardening, kitchen, mechanics, medical use, winter work, electricians, hygiene, warehouse, abattoirs, aerospace, agriculture, airport security, animal handling, aquariums, art handling, assembly, autoclave, automotive, bakery, barbed wire, blacksmithing, blade handling, brewing, bricklaying, butchery, care homes, cargo handling, carpentry, catering, chainsaws, clinical use, cold stores, construction, cryogenics, dentistry, dishwashing, DIY, drains, driving, dyeing, electronics, engineering, extrication, fabrication, fishing, floristry, food handling, food preparation, food retailing, forestry, foundry, freezers, glass handling, glass manufacturing, grinding, hairdressing, hospitals, hot water, hygiene, ice handling, industrial cleaning, inspection, joinery, kitchen, laboratory, law enforcement, machinist, maintenance, mechanics, medicine, money handling, offshore, oil handling, ovens, oyster shucking, packing, painting, petroleum industry, plumbing, police, ponds, railway maintenance, recycling, refuse collection, roofing, scaffolding, sewage treatment, sheet metal handling, surgery, tattoos, typing, tiling, veterinary, warehouse, waste collection, welding, winter gardening, winter work, window cleaning, wood handling and woodworking.

Materials and resistance levels

Gloves are also classified by material, with options in chainmail, cotton, Kevlar, latex-coated, latex disposable, leather, nitrile-coated, nitrile disposable, polyurethane-coated and vinyl disposable. As for resistance, the catalogue distinguishes gloves that are abrasion-resistant, anti-vibration, chemical-resistant, cut-resistant, electricity-resistant, heat-resistant, impact-resistant, needle-resistant, oil-resistant and puncture-resistant. Within cut-resistant gloves, variants are offered for use with heat, waterproof, thermal, kitchen, thin and chemical-resistant, as well as a specific section by cut resistance level.

Brands and featured products

The store works with brands such as Polyco, Portwest, Ejendals, Ansell, Supertouch, ATG, Aurelia, Black Mamba, Uvex, Blackrock, Briers, Coolskin, Cutter, Delta Plus, Dirty Rigger, Ergodyne, Flexitog, Hand Safe, HexArmor, Honeywell, MaxiChem, MaxiCut, MaxiDry, MaxiFlex, MaxiTherm, MCR Safety, Mechanix, Medline, Nitrex, Predator, Scilabub, Shield, Showa, Skytec, Therm-IC, Tornado, Towa, TraffiGlove, UCi and Unigloves. Featured products include Portwest A302 fully dipped nitrile gloves with safety cuff, Ansell TouchNTuff 92-600 powder-free disposable nitrile gloves, Skytec Basalt R with polyurethane coating, Ejendals Tegera 9121 reinforced Kevlar gloves, Portwest A310R8R red and black nitrile gloves, Grippaz orange semi-disposable nitrile gloves with fish scale embossing, HexArmor ThornArmor 3092 for gardening and landscaping, and Meditrade Nitril Sensory disposable nitrile gloves, touchscreen-compatible and chemical-resistant.

Shipping, orders and customer service

The website advertises free UK shipping on orders over £40 and accepts wholesale orders and purchase orders. It has contact, returns, delivery, FAQ and blog sections, as well as guides on sizing, coatings, the EN 388 standard and disposable materials.