- CEO
- Wee Chai Lim
- Full Time Employees
- 10,200
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Medical - Instruments & Supplies
- Address
- Top Glove Tower Shah Alam SE Malaysia 40170
- IPO Date
- Sep 6, 2012
- Business
- Top Glove Corporation Bhd. manufactures, trades and sells a comprehensive range of rubber and synthetic gloves, positioning it as the world's largest glove producer with approximately 26% global market share; its core products encompass medical examination gloves in latex, nitrile and vinyl; surgical gloves; cleanroom gloves; food handling gloves; household and industrial gloves; as well as cast polyethylene (CPE) gloves and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) gloves. The company operates approximately 50 factories with over 800 production lines, achieving a capacity exceeding 100 billion gloves annually, across primary manufacturing facilities in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and China; it maintains marketing offices in the United States, Germany, Brazil and other key markets to serve over 2,000 customers in 195 countries spanning healthcare, industrial, food service and consumer sectors. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia, Top Glove focuses on quality innovation, sustainability and cost efficiency through automated production and stringent compliance with international standards such as ASTM, EN and ISO. In recent developments, the company entered a joint venture agreement in November 2024 through its wholly-owned subsidiary Top Quality Glove Sdn. Bhd. with Tronex (Asia) Limited and Polywel International Trade Company Limited to produce and distribute high-density polyethylene (HDPE) gloves; it targets US sales to reach 40% of group volume within two years amid 2025-2026 tariffs on Chinese medical gloves, alongside resuming production at newer factories and projecting expansions to 46 glove factories and 1,486 lines by end-2025 for 201 billion pieces capacity; financial recovery marked FY2025 with RM109 million net profit, revenue growth to RM3.49 billion and dividend resumption.