OUR UPSTREAM MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES

The Group with our manufacturing base located in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia continues to focus on achieving optimal utilisation with the installed production capacity of 3.4 billion pieces of gloves per annum in our two existing manufacturing facilities.

Our integrated OBM supply chain business model enables us with the option of outsourcing some of our generic products to cost-efficient manufacturers for production under our proprietary UNIGLOVES® brand. This approach allows us to concentrate our production capacity on premium-quality, higher-margin disposable examination glove products.

The Group has remained mindful of overall production efficiency in light of the inflationary pressures affecting operational overheads in our upstream manufacturing division. Although the expansion of our downstream distribution network is anticipated to boost demand for our proprietary UNIGLOVES® brand of premium-quality disposable examination gloves, we are maintaining our production capacity at 3.4 billion pieces of gloves per annum and have put on hold the commissioning of the third manufacturing facility capable of producing an additional 1.2 billion pieces of gloves per annum, given the intense competition in the upstream manufacturing sector. Our flexibility to outsource the production of generic products to reliable and cost-effective manufacturers, while complemented with our own premium-quality offerings, enables the Group to optimise our resources as we continue to expand our proprietary UNIGLOVES® branded product portfolio.

We are committed to upholding high manufacturing quality standards and have received certification from the British Standards Institution (“BSI”) for ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016, and EN ISO 13485:2016, which pertain to the production and supply of natural latex and nitrile latex disposable examination gloves. Furthermore, the Group is a registered member of the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, a not-for-profit membership organisation committed to promoting ethical and responsible business practices in global supply chains. Our upstream manufacturing facilities undergo audits in accordance with the Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (“SMETA”).