KUALA LUMPUR: HARTALEGA Holdings Bhd’s revolutionary non-leaching antimicrobial nitrile examination gloves are poised to raise the group’s profit margin in the financial year ending March 31 2019. Hartalega managing director Kuan Mun Leong said the new gloves would accelerate its target of achieving an output of 42 billion pieces by 2021. “The growth plan is intact, whether we have the antimicrobial gloves or not. For the past seven years, Hartalega and its partner, Chemical Intelligence Ltd, have spent about RM36 million to develop the germ-killing gloves. Kuan said for now, Hartalega had enough foreign workers but would need an additional 2,000 by 2020 to cater for its aggressive expansion.

Source: New Strait Times November 13, 2017 06:22 UTC