Safety gloves for mechanical and chemical risks
In our wide range of gloves, you will find the perfect safety glove for a variety of applications – for all of our products, we pay particular attention to an excellent fit, as well as the required protective class.
uvex online advisor for safety gloves
Looking for perfect safety gloves? We will be happy to advise you online!
uvex safety gloves introduction
The protection of our hands – one of the most important parts of our bodies – requires high-quality safety gloves and custom-tailored service solutions. uvex safety gloves is uvex's competence center for working gloves and it maintains the biggest safety gloves production in Europe. The majority of our gloves is "Made in Germany" and then shipped world-wide. UVEX SAFETY Gloves in Lüneburg is the second company within the uvex safety group to have been certified to the international environmental management standard ISO 14001. ISO 14001 focuses on the continuous improvement process, with the aim of enabling concrete environmental goals to be achieved in the long term. No other safety glove manufacturer in Europe has ever achieved this stringent certification before. Learn more in the video.
Germany's most innovative companies in 2020: Business magazine Capital honours uvex safety gloves
The established German business magazine Capital and the market leader for data collection and analysis, Statista, identified the most innovative companies in Germany in a comprehensive survey of experts. The protective glove manufacturer UVEX SAFETY Gloves GmbH & Co. KG, based in Lüneburg, is one of them and won the award in the category "Manufacturer of consumer goods in the class 251 to 1000 employees" / innovation type products & services. This is a fine confirmation of uvex's commitment to Germany as a business location and "Made in Germany".
We're proud that our efforts as Europe's largest manufacturer of safety gloves earned us a rank amongst the TOP 100 innovators of 2018! After winning a TOP innovator award in 2013, this additional recognition from the TOP 100 competition is testament to the long-term and sustainable innovative approach of uvex safety gloves. The award winners include 120 global and national market leaders.
Safety gloves – additional information
When working, our hands are constantly in direct contact with the objects and materials at our workplace, so it is important to find the right occupational glove for the corresponding hazardous situation. The requirements for suitable occupational gloves change completely depending on whether your employees are doing delicate precision work or are operating heavy machinery, whether they are working in dry areas or wet or oily environments, whether they will come into contact with chemicals or are exposed to mechanical risks. We can help you to choose.
uvex Chemical Expert System
You can use our online adviser tool, the uvex Chemical Expert System, to quickly and easily find the right protective glove for handling chemicals.
HexArmor® safety gloves
uvex and HexArmor® – two brands with one global mission: protecting people. We now offer a select range of safety gloves from HexArmor’s portfolio to all uvex customers in the Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, Middle East and Russia). View the HexArmor® safety gloves range.
uvex cut protection gloves
Check out the latest uvex cut protection innovations uvex D500, uvex phynomic C5, uvex C500 M foam – along with all our other cut protection gloves.
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Cut protection according to EN 388:2016
The testing conditions for cut protection gloves were adapted in the revised standard EN 388:2016. We explain all the changes in video and text.
EN 374 standard modified
Chemical protective gloves must meet the requirements of European standard EN 374. This standard has now been modified substantially. We explain all the changes.