A target no catalogue glove answers
Protection and flexion are demanded in the same hand, at a level and a size band that public models do not cover. TPR geometry, its articulation and its attachment become the design problem.
Projects
Bespoke TPR / OEM
New TPR geometry, a new liner or yarn, a new reinforcement, a new performance target, or a combination nobody has validated yet. This path is development work, so it is decided in stages: a written feasibility answer first, a prototype next, and no irrecoverable money committed before both of you know what is being built and who owns it.
- New tooling and TPR geometry
- Mature orders from 3,000 pairs, light customisation from 6,000, bespoke tooling from 12,000
- Development scheduled per project
- NDA before drawings
The trigger
Who this path is for
Development starts where matching stops: when the glove that is needed does not exist yet, or exists only as somebody else's tool.
A flagship you intend to own
A brand with its own catalogue wants a dedicated tool rather than an ageing private mould shared across the market, and wants the ownership of that tool settled before the first prototype.
A failure that keeps coming back
Pads that hold when new and harden after temperature cycling, adhesive sitting proud around a pad edge, or a fault that returns on every model already tried. Each of those is a construction question, not a purchasing one.
A standard written around the work
A group standard, a knuckle or wrist hazard, a glove built around one real work position on one site. It has to be drawn, prototyped and checked against that position rather than chosen from a line.
What we need
The target in writing, the glove as it is, and the volume the project stands on.
Development is where confidentiality matters most: the standard NDA is available before anything travels, and tooling that is paid for is yours.
Input
What to send
- What the glove has to do, and the failure it must not repeat. A target stated as a level alone is not enough to design against.
- Drawings, a sample or the model in service today — whichever you hold, including the dimensions that matter to the hand.
- The work position: grip, contact surface, whether it is dry, oily or wet, and the temperatures it sees.
- The market, and the claim you intend to make on the finished model once it exists.
- The volume you expect over the first two years, since tooling and development are carried by it.
- Dates you cannot move, and any test the buyer or the standard will demand.
Before anything is committed
What happens first
- A feasibility review across TPR, liner, coating, materials, process, standard, MOQ, cost, lead time, tooling and test requirement.
- A written outcome, in plain terms: a mature match, a light modification, a development project, not feasible, or not enough information yet.
- Where a target is not reachable, that is said before a sample fee or a tooling cost is committed, not after.
- A tooling route named for the project — pilot tooling, CNC work or development tooling — with its own cost and its own lead time.
- The ownership of the tool, the drawings and the design, put on paper before prototype work starts.
After you submit
Feasibility, prototype, validation, then a specification.
Qualified projects are read by a person within one China business day. From there this path runs in stages, and each stage can end the project on evidence rather than on opinion.
01
Feasibility
The target is tested against what can actually be made: geometry, material, process, tooling, standard and cost. You get a written route, or a written no, with the reason attached.
02
Prototype
Pilot tooling, CNC work or development tooling produces the first physical pieces. Prototypes are quoted per project, and the lead time is project-specific rather than a catalogue figure.
03
Test and site trial
The prototype is checked against the agreed target, and where it has to work on a crew, 100 to 500 pairs run on site as a prepaid pilot. Nothing is designed to a specification and then assumed.
04
Final configuration
The geometry, the liner, the coating, the reinforcement and the attachment are frozen into one revision, with the sizes it covers and the packaging it ships in.
05
Final quote and tooling terms
The production price, the minimum, the window and the tooling position — ownership, maintenance and what happens if the project goes dormant — are quoted together, before production is scheduled.
Development decision
What is agreed before production
- Whether the target is reachable at all, and what has to be given up if it is not.
- The TPR geometry, its articulation and how the pads are attached.
- The tooling route, its cost, and who owns the tool once it is paid for.
- Maintenance, storage and dormancy terms for that tool.
- The revision that goes into production, and the change control around it.
- The evidence route for the claim the finished model will carry.
Reply
What the feasibility answer states
- The target as we understood it, including anything we read as a contradiction in it.
- The construction direction worth prototyping, and why the others were set aside.
- The tooling route, its order of magnitude and what it depends on.
- What cannot be promised before a prototype exists, stated as a limitation rather than a risk.
Commercial frame
What a development project is quoted on.
Deep OEM carries the highest minimum of the four paths, because tooling and development hours are spent before production starts. Nothing here is a fixed catalogue price: the project is quoted per project, and the numbers below are the frame it is quoted inside.
- Minimum order
- 3,000 pairs on a mature, unchanged specification; 6,000 pairs with private label or light customisation; 12,000 pairs for bespoke tooling and deep OEM development.
- Production window
- Stated on the configuration’s own record before anything is ordered. The published records quote 45–60 days from approved sample and deposit for a mature specification; a customised configuration runs longer, and development work is scheduled per project rather than against a catalogue lead time.
- Sample
- A catalogue sample is free of charge, usually 1–2 weeks to prepare, with the international courier paid by you. A light-custom sample is free for qualified commercial projects on the same courier basis. A bespoke prototype is quoted per project.
- Field trial
- 100–500 pairs, 100% prepaid, where the glove has to prove itself on a crew, on a site or through a season before the first order is placed.
- Payment
- 30% deposit, 70% against B/L copy.
- Terms of trade
- FOB Qingdao unless the quotation names another basis.
- Review window
- A first human reply within 1 China business day. A mature configuration is normally quoted within 2 business days once the materials are complete; a replacement or custom project takes 3–5 business days for its first feasibility or quote route.
- Issuing entity
- STRATAGRIP Safety is the impact-glove brand of PTB Company. Contracts, invoices and export documents are issued under PTB.
Evidence and limits
A developed glove starts with no evidence, and that is stated.
Nothing here inherits a rating from a neighbouring model. Opening a new geometry, a new liner or a new attachment means the evidence has to be created, and the project is arranged so that it can be.
Evidence position · created per configuration
The scope of testing is agreed before the first prototype, so the claim is designed for rather than discovered afterwards.
A report belongs to one revision of one product code, and to the sizes it was run on. Change a material, the structure or a performance-relevant process and applicability is reviewed before that result is quoted again.
Where no report exists for the configuration, the record says Not Verified — including on a development project, where that is the normal state until validation is done. Certification and test evidence are answered per configuration and per market. No certification, laboratory report, customer or performance figure is claimed anywhere on this site, and no result is transferred from one glove to another.
Honest limits
What this path is not
It is not a cheap route to a unique glove. Tooling, prototypes and validation are real costs, and the 12,000-pair minimum is what carries them.
It is not a performance promise. A target is designed towards and then tested; what comes back is a configuration with its evidence stated, not a guaranteed number.
It is not open-ended development. A project runs against an agreed target, and a target that changes after the prototype is a new round, quoted like the first one.
It is not a copy workshop. We do not reverse-engineer a competitor's glove or its tooling, and we do not take on a project whose starting point is somebody else's protected design.
It is not a branding service, and it is not a consumer channel either: trade customers only.
Bring the target, we will test whether it can be made.
The feasibility answer is written, and it comes before a sample fee or a tooling cost. If the target cannot be reached, that is the answer you get.
Start the development brief
Tell us what the glove has to do.
Four short steps. A drawing, the glove in service or a written target all work as a starting point; the NDA is available before any of them travels.
Development brief
What has to be built, and what has to change?
The target, the failure it must not repeat, the volume behind it and the date it has to meet. A person reads it and answers within one business day.