Our Mission: To provide economical personal protective equipment to our customers in a prompt and accurate manner. Where did the name 'Latoplast' come from? Latoplast started as a manufacturer of latex and plastic gloves in the 1960's. Thus, the name. Our first manufacturing plant was in the basement of a fish store on Bloor Street in Toronto. The founder, Nicholas Kolb, mixed the latex and plastic in big cooking pots on an ordinary kitchen stove and hand-dipped gloves for the meat cutters at the Canada Packers plant on Keele Street. We no longer make our own gloves. But during the past twenty-five years Latoplast has grown to become one of the largest, if not the largest, glove importer and distributor in Canada. We maintain an inventory of over $6 million in six warehouses around the country: Toronto, Surrey, Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa. Our customer base has grown from Canada Packers to include virtually every industry group where people work with their hands. Today we have over 6000 customers! Many people confuse us with Elastoplast -- the bandage people. The name is similar, but there is no connection. But we do sell bandages -- over fifty different kinds. Indeed, though many people think of us as being only a glove company, we are really in the safety business -- selling personal protective equipment -- from hard hats down to boots. Head to toe. Gloves account for about 60% of our business, the other 40% made up primarily of ear plugs and ear muffs,dust masks and respirators, safety spectacles and goggles and a variety of protective clothing. During the average month, we will ship out over 1.44 million pairs of gloves, 45,000 pairs of safety spectacles and over 200,000 pairs of ear plugs. That's a lot of ears! Why buy from Latoplast?