Pursuits
Malaysian Proves Billionaire Making 45,000 Gloves an Hour
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Kuan Kam Hon saw the need for rubber gloves during the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
At the time, health-care workers and others were increasingly using the gloves to protect themselves against the virus and other infectious diseases. So Kuan turned his stagnating woven-label and badge manufacturing plant into a maker of latex gloves.