Magid Supports Your Commitment to a More Sustainable Future

By M.B. Sutherland, Sr. Safety Writer, Magid

Magid’s commitment to keeping workers safe doesn’t stop at the shop floor. For years, we’ve been working to make the world a better place for future generations through more sustainable manufacturing practices like generating our own solar energy, offering durable products that give you more than your money’s worth, and moving toward more sustainable PPE.

We’re excited to announce the flagship product in our sustainable product line, the GP102 General Purpose Work Glove. With this initial offering, we’re switching away from the traditional process of manufacturing micro-foam nitrile coated gloves, which wastes an enormous amount of drinkable water.

Just one 40-foot container of traditional micro-foam nitrile coating uses an entire year’s worth of drinking water for 688 people!
 

The GP102 general purpose work glove's foam nitrile palm coating uses no clean drinking water at all! We put this new coating onto a glove shell that's made with 90% recycled yarn and packaged in 100% recycled, earth-friendly material.

Honored by Environmental Protection’s 2023 New Product of the Year, this new foam coating is softer and more flexible than standard nitrile, while maintaining the oil and water resistance of traditional foam nitrile.

Solar Power

In 2018, we topped our 700,000 sq ft. facility with the largest privately held rooftop solar array in the Midwest with over 10,000 photovoltaic solar panels.

• The array will provide energy over its lifetime equivalent to removing 40,000 gas-powered cars from the roads.
• That reduces our carbon emissions by about 5,700 metric tons of CO₂ each year!
• Special storage batteries allow us to participate in an energy consortium that provides stabilizing voltage regulation for the Eastern Interconnection Power Grid, serving 13 states and Washington D.C.

Greener Manufacturing & Sustainable Packaging

Every new Magid product innovation is packaged in cardboard sleeve packaging instead of plastic polybags. We use the latest technology in computer-assisted laser leather cutting in both our Romeoville, IL and Philippines manufacturing plants to minimize leather waste. And like the GP102, all our future product innovations will be made only from recycled yarn polymers wherever possible.

Reduce | Reuse | Recycle

We take any practical opportunity to reuse, reduce, and recycle materials. We’re always on the lookout for ways to reduce our carbon footprint and keep materials such as cardboard, plastics, metals, and para-aramids out of the landfill.

“We work every day to find ways to achieve our sustainability goals,” said Gary Cohen, Senior Director Global Product Strategy & Quality at Magid. “We’re on a journey to continuously review our practices and products to make them greener, review the life cycle of every new product to make improvements throughout the supply chain, and to choose like-minded suppliers for our distribution business.”

Learn more about the GP102 and Magid’s sustainability program!