吉隆坡——马来西亚Top Glove周二宣布，其年度净利润几乎增长两倍，因为橡胶手套需求的增强使其能够将不断上涨的材料成本转嫁给客户。
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's Top Glove on Tuesday reported a near tripling of its annual net profit as stronger demand for rubber gloves helped it pass rising material costs on to customers.
这家全球最大的橡胶手套制造商在截至8月的财年中录得净利润3.08亿林吉特（合7540万美元），而前一年为1.053亿林吉特。该集团收入增长21%，达到42.3亿林吉特。
The world's largest rubber glove maker posted a net profit of 308 million ringgit ($75.4 million) for the year ended in August, compared with 105.3 million ringgit the previous year. The group's revenue rose 21% to 4.23 billion ringgit.
由于今年早些时候中东冲突加剧，其主要原材料——包括源自石油的合成橡胶丁腈乳胶和天然橡胶乳胶——价格飙升。但这场危机也促使客户囤积其产品，使公司得以提高价格。“业绩改善反映了销量增长、运营效率提升、员工生产力提高以及价格策略的纪律性所带来的效益，”公司董事林清关在财报发布会上表示。
The prices of its main raw materials -- including nitrile latex, a petroleum-derived synthetic rubber -- and natural rubber latex soared as a result of the Middle East conflict that intensified earlier this year. But the crisis also led customers to stockpile its products, enabling the company to raise prices "The improvement reflected the benefits of higher sales volume, improved operational efficiency, higher employee productivity and disciplined pricing," corporate director Lim Cheong Guan said during a results briefing.
年度盈利增长主要发生在最后一个季度，当时净利润从一年前的水平增长超过四倍，达到1.576亿林吉特，占全年总额的一半以上。该季度收入同比增长40%，达到12.5亿林吉特。
Much of the annual earnings growth came in the final quarter, when net profit more than quadrupled to 157.6 million ringgit from a year earlier, accounting for just over half of the full-year total. Revenue in the three months increased 40% year on year to 1.25 billion ringgit.
联合行政总监林晋峰表示，一些美国客户在中东局势初现动荡时已囤积了大量库存，并等待价格下跌后再进行补货。
Joint managing director Lim Jin Feng said some U.S. customers had accumulated substantial stocks during the initial Middle East disruption and waited for prices to fall before replenishing them.
随着需求增强，Top Glove表示计划增加手套产量。公司目标是在2027财年末将运行产能——即不包括闲置生产线的现有生产线年产量——从目前720亿只手套提升至780亿只。
With demand strengthening, Top Glove said it plans to increase glove production. It aims to raise running capacity -- annual production capacity of the lines in operation, excluding idle lines -- to 78 billion gloves by the end of fiscal 2027 from the current 72 billion.
展望未来，公司董事林清关表示，全球手套市场趋于平衡将有助于利润率进一步恢复，尽管能源成本上升和劳动力短缺仍是挑战。
Looking ahead, corporate director Lim said a more balanced global glove market should support further margin recovery, although higher energy costs and manpower constraints remain challenges.
顶级手套预计2026年全球需求将超过4000亿只手套，并计划根据原材料成本调整售价，同时提高效率和自动化水平。
Top Glove expects global demand to exceed 400 billion gloves in 2026 and plans to adjust selling prices in line with raw material costs while improving efficiency and automation.
“尽管平均售价上调，我们的订单依然健康，”林先生表示。他敦促当局解决劳动力短缺问题，称这将“使我们能够重新激活更多闲置产能，更好地满足不断增长的手套需求。”
"Our order books are healthy despite upward adjustments in average selling price," Lim said. He urged the authorities to address manpower shortages, saying this would "enable us to reactivate more idle capacity and better meet the rising glove demand."