Clothing and Textiles

Great to Wear: Quality Clothes and Expertise with Confidence

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. We are an accredited testing and auditing body and can inspect and certify your textiles for harmful substance content, safety, flammability, physical and performance/quality characteristics. We provide testing to verify compliance to international apparel and textile regulations and standards.

Benefits At A Glance

As an accredited testing body, TÜV Rheinland helps you:

  • Ensure compliance with regulatory and voluntary requirements and standards
  • Provide consumers with safe and tested products
  • Boost confidence in the quality and safety of your products
  • Gain a competitive advantage

Our Services for Clothing and Textile Testing

Chemical Audits/Extract of Harmful Substances Audit

  • 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
  • Lead

Physical and Safety Audits/Extract of Quality Assurance Tests

  • Testing audits to check for colorfastness, waterproof, washability, sweat resistance, iron safe, dry-clean resistance, seawater resistance, chlorine water resistance, UV/light exposure
  • Pulling, stretching and dimensional stability
  • Seam strength
  • Pilling behavior
  • Fiber analysis
  • Zipper tests
  • Flammability
  • Tensile strength
  • Tear strength
  • Bursting strength
  • Drawstring review (Children's apparel)
  • Attachment strength (buttons, snaps)
  • CPSIA (Children's products)
  • Green Textile Testing : OKO - Tex 100 and Toxproof testing

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

Additional Services

  • Product-specific requirements to meet your company's quality assurance goals/standards
  • Preparation of audit areas/plans for your products
  • Inspection of damaged goods/reclamations
  • Training and consultation
  • Customer complaint/Product defect analysis

Regulations and Standards

  • Chemical prohibition regulation (REACH, ISO, JIS)
  • Textile labeling regulation (TKG, Textile Fiber Products Identification Act, Wool Products Labelling Act, Canadian Textile Labelling Act, etc.
  • Commodity goods regulation
  • Food and commodity goods code (LFGB)
  • EU guidelines, DIN, and ISO norms
  • AATCC, ASTM, FTC, CFR
  • EN ISO, National Standard of Canada, CAN/CG 8B

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.

Product Testing Categories

  • Adult and Children's wearing apparel and outerwear
  • Children's sleepwear
  • Sheets, bedding and blankets
  • Gloves and hats
  • Footwear and slippers
  • Socks and Hosiery
  • Costumes and accessories
  • Area rugs and carpets
  • Window coverings
  • Household textiles, fabrics and upholstery
  • Leather goods, bags and luggage
  • Intimate apparel