Low Lint Products

Features and Benefits of Tri-Star Glove’s Low Lint Products

During the automotive paint process, most manufacturers use white sealer to fill joints in the metal panels to stop salt from penetrating, which causes rust to form. In the Paint Department, if team members wear white low lint gloves, the white sealer can end up on the gloves, which then gets transferred to the metal. Sealer will stop paint from adhering to the metal, causing costly off-lines. As a countermeasure, Tri-Star worked with one major manufacture to create different colored gloves to create contrast that permits visual tracking when sealer was present, stopping the contamination before it caused a problem, and avoiding costly off-lines. For Example, when white sealer adheres to any of our black, blue, dark or mint green, heather grey or black low-lint gloves, you can quickly view the contamination with the colour contrast and change gloves). The various colors have caught on and are being used by many of the major automotive manufacturers.

The traditional method of closing or overcasting the cuff opening of the glove is done with a sewing machine that uses multiple threads that creates airborne errant particulate when cut with scissors. This particulate could end up being transferred from the glove to the vehicle, causing a paint seed, where the paint covers over the particulate and can easily be picked open exposing the metal. As a countermeasure, Tri-Star created a new approach to overcasting the knitted glove without having to use a sewing machine, thread, or scissors. We insert a thermal X-yarn in the final stages of the cuff during the knitting process, in a specific color to denote size. It is then run through an oven to heat set the yarn. The finished glove can be laundered without the introduction of threads and lint.

With the today’s varied-sized work force, and the quest for thin, tight-fitting gloves, we found that offering multiple sizes is extremely important for team members to properly do their job. To ensure the proper fit, we manufacture from size XS up to 2XL.