What’s New in the World of Safety Gloves: Advanced Cooling AD-APT® Technology from ATG MaxiFlex

It’s beginning to feel like summer, which adds challenges to those who work outdoors under the sun, or in warm indoor environments. Luckily, there is an amazing advanced AD-APT Technology that will help keep your hands drier and body temperature cooler throughout the work day without sacrificing grip or dexterity. This technology is used in a new version of the popular MaxiFlex® Ultimate safety gloves.

Designed as a breathable work glove with a new distinct cooling effect, the MaxiFlex® Seamless Knit Nylon/Lycra® Gloves with Nitrile-Coated Micro-Foam Grip use the Advanced AD-APT® Technology that offers a unique cooling property. How does this technology work? Microencapsulated, natural-based components integrated into the glove activate when your skin temperature rises, which initiates the cooling process.

In addition, these gloves are 25% thinner than others on the market and are 100% silicone-free. Another benefit of wearing these gloves is that they provide a comfortable form, fit and feel based on the manufacturing process. To reduce hand fatigue and increase comfort, the shape of the gloves’ mold mimic a "hand at rest" position. The thin, flexible nature of the gloves offers excellent dexterity. The glove is perfect for a wide range of applications: general purpose and precision handling work in dry environments, final assembly, micro-engineering, finishing and inspection, maintenance, logistics, and warehousing.

Why Is the Hand Cooling Effect So Important?

There is a scientific proof that continuous cooling down of your hands will quickly restore your normal physical condition when being exposed to heat in hot environments, and will improve your overall endurance and performance.

In the late 1990s, as part of their research on improving physical performance, biologist Dennis Grahn and his research partner at Stanford, Craig Heller, worked on creating and testing a Cooling Glove, designed for use by military forces. They have been exploring performance benefits that could be obtained from using a portable device, like a glove, for instance, to continuously extract heat from a body during endurance exercise in a hot environment, compared to commonly-used cooling maneuvers, like taking a cold shower, which requires taking at least 30 minutes break from the activities you are engaged in.

The researchers were stunned to find out how well the cooling down effect worked for enhancing human performance. In trying to figure out why the Glove worked so well, the researchers challenged the conventional scientific wisdom on fatigue being the reason of muscle exhaustion. As mentioned on WIRED.com in one of the articles on this subject, their scientific conclusion was: “Muscles don’t wear out because they use up stored sugars. Instead, muscles tire because they get too hot, and sweating is just a backup cooling system for the lattices of blood vessels in the hands and feet.” Per scientists, the Glove “overclocks the heat exchange system”.

“It’s like giving a Honda the radiator of a Mack truck,” said biologist Craig Heller.

Fun facts: By applying mathematical techniques from quantum information theory, mathematicians proved that no real system will ever reach 0?Kelvin: it would take an infinite number of steps. This statement puts a limit to cooling and proves that you can’t get to the absolute zero of temperature.

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Sources:

Stanford.edu  WIRED.com  Newscientist.com