Portwest A930 HD Nitrile Powder-Free Disposable Gloves
The Portwest A930 HD Nitrile Powder-Free Disposable Gloves are extremely versatile, with their super thin design matching a strength that makes them well suited to the mechanics, maintenance and manufacturing industries. They are three times the strength of ordinary disposable gloves, while their flexible, sensitive design and crystal textured grip finish ensures that you have total control when handling small items, materials and tools.
What are the Portwest HD Nitrile Gloves For?
The Portwest HD Nitrile Gloves are extremely strong, meaning that they can withstand far more knocks and scrapes than your usual disposable gloves. This makes them well suited to all of the things disposable gloves are usually suitable for such as painting and cleaning, and tougher industries such as mechanics and the automotive business. We would recommend these gloves for many applications, including:
- Assembly
- Automotive
- Auto repair
- Construction
- Component handling
- Electronics
- Food manufacture
- Food processing
- Food retailing
- Manufacturing
- Painting
- Public utilities
- Refuse collection
- Refuse handling
- Utilities
Please note that this list is where we recommend these gloves, and their suitability is not limited to these applications alone. Their super strong but protective design means that they are ideal for plenty of low-risk industries that demand contamination protection from super strong gloves.
How Long Will The Portwest HD Gloves Last For?
The Portwest HD Gloves are supplied in boxes of 100. This means that they are ideal for taking off and replacing throughout your day at work. However they are far stronger than your usual disposable gloves, meaning that they should last significantly longer before breaking.
Why are the Portwest HD Nitrile Powder-Free Gloves so Strong?
The Portwest HD Gloves are three times as strong as your normal disposable gloves. This exceptional strength makes them well suited to use as over gloves with tight fitting Mechanics Gloves, where they can protect your reusable gloves from dirt, oil and other contaminants.
They are highly durable because they are designed using a synthetic nitrile compound that promises to not break even when under a certain level of pressure. The nitrile liner is also quite thick coming at 7mm, meaning that it can withstand repeated stretching before the material will even start to give way.
Are They Suitable for Use with Food?
Should you want to use these gloves in the food industry then you can do so. The food safe extra strong design is actually ideal for use on a food assembly line or in a kitchen, as your gloves repeatedly breaking can become a contamination risk. These gloves can help give you a peace of mind that they aren't about to break, helping you to get on with your job.
Are They Suitable for Use with chemicals?
The Portwest A930 Gloves adhere to EN Standard EN 374, however classify as a Type C product which means that they are only suitable for use with one specific chemical for a certain amount of time. These gloves are given a rating of K, which means that they will protect your hands from 40% sodium hydroxide for approximately 480 minutes before they start to give way.
How Grippy are the Portwest HD Nitrile Powder-Free Gloves?
Two things that the Portwest HD Nitrile Gloves are designed with is crystal grip and a textured finish. The crystal grip is designed to enable you to grip potentially slippery items while at work, perfect for gripping tools and trying to handle slippery items. The textured finish is designed to be coarse and rough to touch which has the effect of making items almost stick to the liner, ideal for reducing the chances of items from being dropped.
How Flexible are the Portwest HD Nitrile Disposable Gloves?
As with all Portwest Disposable Gloves, the Portwest Orange HD Gloves offer an incredible level of dexterity. However unlike other disposable gloves these gloves are extremely strong, which makes these gloves highly impressive when it comes to the flexibility and dexterity that they offer. The gloves will fit tightly around the hand, and once on they feel almost like a second skin, giving you total control when handling items.
How Thin are the Portwest Nitrile Powder-Free Gloves?
They feature a thickness of 7mm, which helps to ensure both a high tensile strength and a high level of sensitivity. This thinness provides the perfect blend between user sensitivity and flexibility, and the strength of the glove, making them ideal for tougher industries that require a high level of dexterity.
What are the Key Features of the A930 Disposable Gloves?
- Three times the strength of normal nitrile gloves
- Offer high resistance to sodium hydroxide
- Suitable for tougher, mechanical industries
- High level of flexibility and sensitivity
- Suitable for use with food
- Powder, latex and silicone free
What Regulation do the Portwest A930 Gloves Meet?
The Portwest A930 Gloves have been designed to meet different EN standards to ensure a high level of performance. The scores that they received are the following:
- EN 455 Part 1 & 2 (Absence of holes and minimise contamination risk)
- EN 420
- EN 374-1: 2016 Type C (K > 480 mins)
- CE Food Safe
What are the Portwest HD Gloves A930 Made From?
The Portwest HD Gloves are designed from using a highly durable synthetic nitrile compound, something that is easy on the skin and something that won't break too easily. No silicone and latex was used during the making of these gloves, ideal for users with irritable skin.
Which Size Should I Choose?
The Portwest Powder-Free Gloves A930 are available in three sizes that should be suitable for most users. To find your perfect pair, please measure the circumference and length of your palm and match the results to the table below.
| Glove Size | Palm Circ. | Palm Length | Min. Glove Length |
| 8 (Medium) | 203mm | 182mm | 240mm |
| 9 (Large) | 229mm | 192mm | 250mm |
| 10 (Extra Large) | 254mm | 204mm | 260mm |
What Documentation is Available for the Portwest A930 Gloves?
| Conformity Statement | Instructions for Use |
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