PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers Association (Margma) says its members are all geared up to produce more gloves to meet the requirements if the coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic.
“While we may be having a shortage of workers and the fact that we cannot have more overtime, the industry will then have to tweak the production lines to run at optimum levels, to churn out the medical gloves to supply to the world.
“Already, there are serious ongoing procurement of gloves, from the affected areas and if it becomes pandemic, the demand can be ASTRO
nomical. Taking a lesson from the H1N1 virus and the notion that the coronavirus can be much more worse than H1N1, the rubber glove industry would certainly ramp up production to meet the demand; purely from a humanitarian stance, ” said its president Denis Low.
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