DuPont announces winners of the 2018 DuPont™ Kevlar® Glove Innovation Awards
Honorees receive accolades for advanced glove and sleeve designs using Kevlar®
DuPont Safety & Construction (DuPont) today announced the winners of the fifth-annual DuPont™ Kevlar® Glove Innovation Awards. The awards spotlight excellence in innovative glove and sleeve designs from DuPont™ Kevlar® licensees who push the limits of what’s possible to make work gloves and sleeves more durable and protective.
Innovation in this area is critical to worker safety. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the hand is the leading body part injured at work and treated in hospital emergency departments, with hand injuries sending more than 1 million workers to the emergency room annually in the United States.