Clothing and Textiles

Great to Wear: Quality Clothes, Fully Tested for Safety

Today, up to 7,000 chemicals are used in textile manufacturing, including coloring agents, agents that prevent creasing, or even to protect against mold during transport. Ensure the quality of your products with our lab test service. We are an accredited auditing body and can inspect and certify your textiles for harmful substance content and any physical, qualitative characteristics. We can also offer support for imports and exports to the European market and international goods providers.

Benefits At A Glance

As an accredited testing body, our services help you:

  • Ensure compliance with statutory and voluntary requirements concerning
    harmful substances and quality
  • Provide consumers with safe and tested products
  • Boost confidence in the quality and safety of your products
  • Gain a lead against the competition with a neutral audit seal

An Overview of our Services

Chemical Audits/Extract of Harmful Substances Audit

  • Prohibited Azo dyes
  • Pentachlorophenol, PCP
  • Formaldehyde
  • Nickel in metal parts
  • Cadmium in plastic textiles
  • Allergenic disperse dyes
  • Organotin chemistry, Tributyltin hydride
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAK
  • REACH audits, REACH screenings

Physical Textile Audits/Extract of Quality Assurance Tests

  • Audit to check if textile is rub-proof, waterproof, wash proof, sweat resistant, iron proof, dry-clean resistant, seawater resistant, chlorine water resistant
  • Light resistant
  • Pulling and stretching tests, rip-proof
  • Alteration, seam turns
  • Pilling behavior, shower proof
  • Fiber compound
  • Zipper tests

You can find a complete index of services in the download section.

Extract of Certification and Audit Seal

  • TOXPROOF
  • Tested against harmful substances
  • Allergy-tested, suitable for dust mite allergy
  • Quality assurance check
  • UV- protection audit

Further Services

  • Product-specific specifications profile for your company's quality assurance
  • Preparation of audit areas/plans for your products
  • Inspection of damage cases/reclamations

Statutory Basis and Other Audit Specifications

  • Chemical prohibition regulation (Chemikalien-Verbotsverordnung, ChemVerbotsV)
  • Textile labeling regulation (Textilkennzeichnungsgesetz, TKG)
  • Commodity goods regulation (Bedarfsgegenständeverordnung, BedGgstV)
  • Food and commodity goods code (Lebensmittel- und Futtermittelgesetzbuch, LFGB)
  • EU guidelines, DIN, and ISO norms

Information about Harmful Substances

You can find detailed information on current regulations in our 02/2010 edition of the brochure "Regulations about Harmful Substances in Textiles and Leather Products."

Official Duplicate Test

Our lab is authorized to carry out official duplicate tests for textiles.

Capabilities list

Our Capabilities list for chemical and physical tests on textiles, garment and consumer goods.