SMX announces expansion of industrial rubber traceability platform

SMX (SMX)announced the expansion of its industrial rubber traceability platform into latex and rubber gloves. The initiative represents the sixth application within SMX’s growing circular-rubber program and targets one of the world’s largest and most complex post-use rubber waste streams. Latex and rubber gloves are used globally across healthcare, laboratory, pharmaceutical, food-handling, industrial and consumer environments. While consumption has remained structurally elevated since the COVID-19 period, glove materials remain largely absent within recycling systems, resulting in low recovery rates and widespread disposal via landfill or incineration. The decision to expand into glove-rubber and latex traceability reflects SMX’s strategy of applying its proven rubber-integrity platform to high-impact circular-material challenges where authentication, traceability and lifecycle accountability can unlock new recovery pathways. By embedding its invisible molecular identity directly into glove materials during production, SMX’s technology can enable each glove to be securely linked to a persistent, tamper-resistant digital record that can be verified throughout manufacturing, use and end-of-life handling.