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   Our Facilities
 
     
 

The sky is our limit. Our facilities are designed and equipped to produce excellent quality gloves. We focus on automation technology in the operational process flow to ensure product consistencies and operation efficiencies are achieved.

Critical parameters that can impact the consistency of glove production are continuously monitored via our in‐house designed logistic control. Online analysis of these data provides instantaneous feedback to the production floor for line adjustment if necessary.

Automation in the sterile packaging centre enables us to provide you with up-to-date packaging solutions and flexibilities to meet the current and moving trends of the healthcare community.

  
 
 
 
Glove Production
  • Automated Stripping of Gloves
• Double Former Dipping Lines
   
Packaging Automation for
Sterile Gloves
  • Glove Walleting Packing Machine (GPM)
• Platen Seal Pouching Machine (HDW)
• Form Fill Sealing Machine (Thermoform)

 
R&D Resources and Facilities
  • High‐Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Test
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer
(FTIR) Test
• Antigenic Protein Testing
• Dipping Process Simulation
   
Microbiology Laboratory
Environmental Sustainability
 
     
 

Glove Production

Automated Stripping of Gloves
 
 
In order to increase manufacturing efficiencies, one of the areas to achieve better performance and output is by reducing the labor dependency and handling during the stripping process of the gloves from the production line. All our production dipping lines for examination gloves are designed with an automated stripping system to automatically reverse and remove the gloves from the formers once the dipping process is completed.
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Packaging Automation for Sterile Gloves
 

Sterile glove packing is a critical process as the primary package integrity is an important factor in ensuring the sterility of the product is maintained for its main intended use.

Our sterile packing facility is well equipped with automated packing machines from reputable makers to ensure only the best quality packaging system is installed and quality packaged product is delivered to you. We continuously look into the future to bring you the latest technologies in packaging solutions with enhanced quality and benefits.

Here are among our featured automated packing machines:
 

1. Glove Walleting Packing Machine (GPM)
    Manufacturer : DOYEN Medipharm Ltd.
    This machine is designed with in-line flexographic printing system to print the medical paper online and the     tucker section of the machine automatically wraps the cuffed gloves into individual wallets.




 

2. Platen Seal Pouching Machine (HDW)
    Manufacturer : DOYEN Medipharm Ltd.
    This machine functions on a continuous platen sealing motion to produce sealed pouches with a speed of     up‐to 75 pouches per minute. The machine is designed to seal high quality, high integrity film pouches with     even seal consistency using quality film and other heat sealable material.




 

3. Form Fill Sealing Machine (Thermoform)
    Maker: CFS Tiromat, Germany
    This is a fully automated forming and sealing machine which is installed with in-line flexographic printing     system to print the graphic and text online onto the top web of the pouch in one color. This machine is     versatile to run smaller production orders due to the online printing capabilities.




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R&D Resources and Facilities
 

We have established an efficient Research and Development (R&D) Department that provides R&D support to our endeavour in providing innovative medical gloves that can meet the requirement of our customers. The team of our enthusiastic young chemists and engineers, who are adequately guided by our experience senior R&D manager, is our valuable resource.

Our competent and resourceful R&D team of chemists and engineers provides reliable services for both our internal research projects and medical glove factory operations.

Their daily tasks include rubber and chemicals identification, rubber network studies, failure analysis, understanding of rubber and crosslink agents interaction, enhancement of production process, analysis of competitor products, compliance with regulatory requirements and compliance to environment requirements. The accumulated results from these well-planned research activities lead to innovative quality glove products that meet the ever-increasing demand of our customers.

Our R&D chemists are trained in advanced analytical techniques such as analysis using the highperformance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR).
 

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

The high performance liquid chromatograph is versatile in the identification of some of the compounding ingredients such as the accelerators used in glove manufacturing. It is particularly handy in determining the presence of residual chemicals in rubber gloves using suitable extraction procedures. We have made use of this well established chromatographic technique to detect and quantify chemicals in parts per million (ppm) level.
 

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR)

The FTIR is a standard technique used in the identifying of chemicals and materials. FTIR can generate an infrared spectral scan of a sample that absorbs infrared light. The spectrum is obtained when a molecule transform infrared radiation into molecular vibrations which create bands in a spectrum occurring at specific wavelengths. From the spectrum, one can interpret and deduce the type of functional groups and chemical bonds present in the sample. Thus FTIR is primarily used to provide structural information about the presence of certain functional groups in a material.
 

Expanding from the well established HPLC and FTIR techniques, our trained chemists are able to provide the needed information to the factory operations. Some of the contributions include the following:

• Developing technologies in sample preparation and extraction methods for HPLC analysis
• Evaluation and quantification of residual chemicals in gloves
• Benchmarking the level of residual chemicals in gloves from the market
• Developing our patent-pending medical gloves with low dermatitis claim
• Contamination analysis and impurities screening
• Glove degradation identification
• Identification of unknown rubber and chemicals
• Evaluating the purity of raw materials and chemicals
• Developing in-house FTIR library of rubber and rubber chemicals
• Monitoring in situ chemical reactions

FTIR spectrum indicating the presence of ionic crosslink of carboxylated acrylonitrile butadiene latex with zinc oxide.

HPLC analysis of chemicals present in leached water.
 

Antigenic Protein Testing

In order to provide safe-usage of natural rubber latex medical gloves to our customers, we have continuously improved our glove dipping technology and with proper treatment of the raw materials to produce natural rubber latex gloves with low protein level. We have also expanded our testing facility to include antigenic protein measurement in addition to the total protein measurement using the modify Lowry method. The antigenic protein measurement is in compliance to ASTM D 6499 Standard Test Method for the Immunological Measurement of Antigenic Protein in Natural Rubber and its Products.
 

Dipping Process Simulation

Industrial robotic technology has been installed in our R & D laboratory to offer detailed simulation of the glove dipping process. Dipping process design involving a large range of parameters can now be executed in a consistent automated manner and the results can be transferred and analyzed at the factory floor.

This special facility enables new product and new process to be developed and tested in the shortest time possible.
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Microbiology Laboratory
 
Our microbiology laboratory plays an important role in ensuring the functionality of the sterile glove product is continuously met by conducting routine environmental monitoring at our production facility.
 

Here are among the routine environmental monitoring conducted at our facility for sterile gloves:

• Fluid Bioburden
• Viable Air Count
• Non Viable Particle Air Count
• Viable Compressed Air Count
• Surface Microbial Count (Swab Test)

The laboratory also conducts sterilization validation tests for new products which involves the following essential tests:

• Bacteriostasis and Fungistasis
• Bioburden Study and Recovery
• Sterility
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Environmental Sustainability
 
We believe and we are committed to environmental Sustainability practices. We use state of the art technology in our effluent treatment and have implemented policies for waste reduction. Our staff has been trained to execute and help to achieve Company’s policy in environmental Sustainability.
 
 
Kossan is also committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for all its employees. We have established EHS teams in each manufacturing facility to look into safety policies and implement necessary steps to ensure adequate safety measures are in place to create a safe working environment.
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