Contact Information: Contact: Mr. Phil Corke Ansell Healthcare Products LLC (732) 345-5400 pcorke@ansell.com Rick Tillotson Tillotson Corporation (603) 255-3640 RickTillotson@TillotsonCorp.com
Ansell Takes License for Nitrile Gloves
| Source: Tillotson Corporation and Ansell Healthcare Products LLC
RED BANK, NJ and LEXINGTON, MA--(Marketwire - April 29, 2009) - Ansell Healthcare Products
LLC, of Red Bank, NJ, and Tillotson Corporation, of Lexington, MA, today
announced that Ansell has taken a license under the Tillotson Patent for
disposable Nitrile Gloves, in the U.S. and in Europe, and will begin to
mark its packaging with the Tillotson Patent numbers. Their agreement also
settled all disputes between the companies and their affiliates relative to
the manufacture and sale of such gloves. Neil Tillotson and Luc DeBecker
developed this glove technology in 1990, and Tillotson Corporation was
granted a patent in 1997, when Mr. Tillotson was 98 years of age. The
Tillotson patent teaches how to produce a synthetic rubber glove that
relaxes after being donned and comfortably conforms to the contours of the
wearer's hand. All other terms of the license are confidential.
Tillotson's Vice President, Rick Tillotson stated, "We are very pleased to
have Ansell join the 32 U.S. and international licensees of our patent."
Ansell Ltd. is a global leader in healthcare barrier protective products.
With operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia, Ansell employs more than
11,000 people worldwide and holds leading positions in the natural latex
and synthetic polymer glove and condom markets. Ansell operates in three
main business segments: Occupational Healthcare, supplying hand protection
to the industrial market; Professional Healthcare, supplying surgical and
examination gloves to healthcare professionals; and Consumer Healthcare,
supplying sexual health products and consumer hand protection. Information
on Ansell and its products can be found at www.ansell.com.
Tillotson Corporation was started by Neil Tillotson, after selling his new
invention, the world's first latex balloons, at the Patriot's Day Parade in
1931.