Sri Trang Gloves Brand Guidelines: Hat Yai Latex, a Semperit Split & a 2020 SET Debut

A rubber group, an Austrian partner and a split.

Sri Trang Gloves is the glove arm of the Sri Trang rubber group of southern Thailand. Its parent, Sri Trang Agro-Industry, dates from 1987: the US healthcare trade magazine Repertoire describes it as the business Dr Viyavood Sincharoenkul started that year, and the Bangkok Post called the parent a “fully integrated natural rubber company” in July 2020. The glove company’s registered office is in Hat Yai, in Songkhla province, according to its Singapore Exchange profile.

The gloves came first through a partnership. For about 27 years, by Semperit’s own count, the Thai group worked with the Austrian rubber company Semperit, and their joint glove maker in Thailand was Siam Sempermed Corporation. The US Food and Drug Administration’s premarket database records Siam Sempermed’s first clearance, for latex patient examination gloves, in December 1989, followed by powder-free latex gloves in 1993 and its first nitrile examination gloves, in green and in blue, in 2000.

The partnership ended after a dispute. On 18 January 2017 Semperit announced an agreement with Sri Trang Agro-Industry to end almost all of their joint business, with the arbitration and legal disputes between them to be settled by mutual agreement. Sri Trang would take over the glove production of Siam Sempermed in Thailand; Semperit would take over the US distribution company and the joint companies in Singapore, China and Brazil, and the Sempermed brands would stay solely with Semperit. Semperit said on 15 March 2017 that the deal had closed and that all pending arbitration and civil proceedings between the groups had been settled by mutual consent. A hydraulic-hose joint venture in Hat Yai, Semperflex Asia, carried on.

The new name shows up quickly in the federal record. From March 2019 the FDA’s clearances list the maker as Sri Trang Gloves (Thailand) of Hat Yai, starting with black and then pink nitrile examination gloves.

Latex, nitrile and a pandemic listing.

The listing came in the first pandemic summer. The Nation reported on 20 June 2020 that Sri Trang Gloves (Thailand), known by its ticker STGT, planned an initial public offering on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, and that its chief executive, Jarinya Jirojkul, said production had doubled since 2017 from 15 billion to 30 billion pieces a year, with targets of 50 billion in 2024 and 100 billion in 2032. The shares began trading on 2 July 2020. The next day the Bangkok Post reported a strong debut, described STGT as the world’s third-largest rubber glove maker and noted that the offering covered 30.7% of its shares. The Singapore Exchange lists a second listing on its mainboard from 10 May 2021, under the code STG.

The range rests on two materials. The company’s Stock Exchange of Thailand snapshot for the first quarter of 2025 lists natural-latex powdered gloves, natural-latex powder-free gloves and nitrile gloves, sold as examination gloves and other industrial gloves, and says the company is adding specialty gloves: low-protein, surgical and diamond-textured. Its Singapore Exchange profile says most of the gloves it makes are natural rubber gloves for medical use. At the 2020 listing, the Bangkok Post quoted the chief executive saying the aim was to concentrate on natural rubber gloves while keeping a proper share of nitrile, made from synthetic rubber.

The company states plainly where the gloves are made. In a June 2020 branded feature in the Bangkok Post, the chief executive named three factories: in Hat Yai, in Songkhla, and in Surat Thani and Trang provinces. Kaohoon reported in July 2020 that expansions at the Hat Yai and Trang plants had begun running in full in the first quarter of that year. The Singapore Exchange profile describes three production plants with 147 lines and installed capacity of about 33 billion pieces a year, and calls the company the largest glove manufacturer in Thailand. The company says it sells to more than 140 countries; its 2025 snapshot says more than 175.

How glove makers present themselves.

Disposable gloves are among the most anonymous products in healthcare. They arrive in plain dispenser boxes, are worn for minutes and are thrown away, and most of the companies that make them sell to distributors, hospital buyers and other brands rather than to the public. Their visual identities are therefore built less around the product in use and more around the factory, the material and the scale of output.

The pictures repeat across the category. A gloved hand in blue or purple nitrile is held against a white ground; long dipping lines carry rows of ceramic hand-shaped formers through tanks of latex or nitrile; finished gloves are stripped, stacked and boxed; and dispenser boxes are piled into walls of colour, each size and material given its own shade. Cleanroom and hospital scenes supply the setting, with gowned staff, stainless steel and soft, even light.

Geography is part of the story. Malaysia and Thailand, both rubber-growing countries, are home to many of the makers in this series, and corporate material from the region often opens with aerial views of factory complexes, rows of long white sheds, alongside figures for lines, plants and annual capacity. Makers in China, Europe and elsewhere use the same vocabulary of automation, testing laboratories and certificates.

Trade fairs are where many of these brands meet their buyers. Stands at MEDICA in Düsseldorf and at the Dubai healthcare show long known as Arab Health tend to show stacked boxes, glove samples and product walls, with a company name in a clean sans and a colour that can carry from carton to booth. The guides in this series look at how individual makers handle that shared language.

A listed company inside a rubber group.

Sri Trang Gloves remains a listed company controlled by its parent. The Stock Exchange of Thailand snapshot for early 2025 names Sri Trang Agro-Industry as the major shareholder, with just over half of the shares as of 3 March 2025. The company frames its sustainability work under the line “Clean World Clean Gloves,” with “Touch of Life” describing what it wants to deliver. In the same snapshot it says it has been certified to amfori BSCI Grade A at all of its factories and has begun distributing rubber gloves to Europe that meet the EU deforestation regulation.

Colour runs through the names of the gloves themselves. FDA clearances under the Sri Trang Gloves name cover nitrile gloves in black, pink, lilac, orchid and oyster, and later in white and violet blue, and latex gloves in ocean blue, violet blue, black and natural white.

For a design guide, Sri Trang Gloves shows how a supplier born inside a joint venture can build a name of its own around a place, a raw material and a set of glove colours. Compare Semperit, its former partner, and Top Glove, the Malaysian glove maker. For this guide we use a rubber-leaf green, a latex cream and a violet blue with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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