Skytec Beta 1 Lightweight Palm-Coated Touchscreen Grip Gloves
The Skytec Beta 1 Lightweight Palm-Coated Touchscreen Grip Gloves are super lightweight work gloves that feature good levels of mechanical resistance for a glove of their weight. Their design makes them a superb choice for manual tasks that require sensitive touch, dexterity or precision in your fingertips, without leaving your fingers themselves exposed.
What Kind Of Protection Do These Gloves Offer?
These super lightweight gloves feature exceptional abrasion resistance, for long lasting protection in a variety of handling tasks. They also feature a middling level of tear resistance and some cut and puncture resistance. While they shouldn't be used for tasks that hold abnormal cut or puncture risk, they can be relied upon to keep hands safe and comfortable in a range of precision manual tasks.
What Is the Construction of these gloves?
With a machine knitted nylon/spandex blend liner and a seamless construction, these gloves offer the very best in comfort, dexterity and sensitivity. They include NFT nitrile foam dipped hands for excellent grip in a variety of conditions, including oily and wet conditions.
Take advantage of the precision grip from Skytec Beta Gloves
What Conditions Are these Gloves Appropriate for Use In?
By channelling fluid away from the palms, the NFT nitrile foam coating of these gloves helps to maintain a firm grip regardless of conditions. The Beta gloves are appropriate for use in dry, wet or oily conditions.
Features of the Skytec Beta PU Gloves
In order to offer touch and dexterity alongside robust protection, these gloves feature the following:
- NFT nitrile foam coating – maintains firm grip in dry, wet or oily conditions
- Nylon/ spandex liner – offers superior fit, sensitivity, comfort and dexterity
- Full hand design – offers strong abrasion resistance to the whole hand
- Thin 18gg liner – is extremely lightweight for unwavering dexterity
- Trademark Sanitized finish – has antimicrobial qualities to maintain freshness within the glove
- Elasticated wrist – ensures a firm and comfortable fit to a variety of hands
- Tricolore red colour coding – is easily visible and helps to identify gloves quickly on sight
What Is the Tricolore Colour Coding System?
Skytec utilise a standardised colour coding system to help you select appropriate levels of cut resistance quickly and easily on site. The system is as follows:
- Red gloves: level 1 cut resistance
- Amber gloves: level 3 cut resistance
- Green gloves: level 5 cut resistance
These red gloves feature only minimal cut protection, and shouldn't be used for work where you expect to encounter sharp objects or edges.
Are These Gloves Latex Free?
These gloves use a nitrile foam palm-dip. This makes them latex free and allows those with latex allergies to wear these gloves without discomfort.
Applications of the Skytec Beta PU Gloves
The Skytec Beta PU Gloves are designed for applications where precision and dexterity is valuable. They also feature a strong grip in dry or oily conditions which opens them to a range of uses. Typical industrial applications include:
- Automotive
- Construction
- Logistics
- Maintenance
- Manufacturing
- Oil and gas
- Pharmaceutical
- Transport
- Utilities
- Warehousing and distribution
Testing of the Skytec Beta PU Gloves
EN 388 (Mechanical Protection)
Hazard | Resistance Rating |
Abrasion | Level 4 |
Cut | Level 1 |
Tear | Level 2 |
Puncture | Level 1 |
ISO Cut | N/A |
EN407 (Heat Resistance)
Hazard | Resistance Level |
Burning Behaviour | N/A |
Contact Heat | Level 1 (100°C) |
Convective Heat | N/A |
Radiant Heat | N/A |
Small Splashes of Molten Metal | N/A |
Large Splashes of Molten Metal | N/A |
Sizing of the Skytec Beta PU Gloves
The Skytec Beta PU Gloves are available in five sizes. To identify the best fit for you, start by measuring the length of your hand and the circumference of your palm at the knuckle (as seen below). Once you have these measurements, you can compare them to the below sizing table to find your glove size.
Size | Palm Circ. | Hand Length | Min. Glove Length |
6 (Extra Small) | 152mm | 160mm | 220mm |
7 (Small) | 178cm | 170cm | 230mm |
8 (Medium) | 203mm | 182mm | 240mm |
9 (Large) | 229mm | 192mm | 250mm |
10 (Extra Large) | 254mm | 204mm | 260mm |
Documentation for the Skytec Gloves