Apparel and Textile
Testing Services
As a softlines and textile industry manufacturer, brand or retailer, it's crucial to ensure the products offering to your customers meet their expectations and adhere to all necessary safety, regulatory and government standards worldwide. This is especially important in today's complex and ever-changing consumer market. Not meeting these requirements can lead to product recalls and unhappy customers who may return the product due to its poor quality. Therefore, you must prioritize meeting these objectives to maintain consumer trust and establish a thriving business.
Softline quality assurance services offer a range of safety compliance testing, inspection, and consultation services to review your softlines products and protect your brand.
OUR APPROACH TO APPAREL TESTING
At Bureau Veritas, our in-depth process for softlines such as apparel and textiles includes:
- Product evaluation at development and pre-production stages
- Testing to national and international standards
- Assessments for regulatory and safety compliance
- Product evaluation for appearance, quality control and performance
- A technical support network to answer questions, interpret results; and help to manage your quality assurance program
- Defect analysis of customer complaint items or manufacturing defects
- Comparative analysis of own-brand products with the competition
- Design evaluations regarding particular design concerns, or applicable regulatory and safety requirements
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Our quality assurance service for softlines is designed to ensure that products:
- Meet regulatory requirements for each distribution country
- Face minimal risk of substandard merchandise and costly customer returns
- Are subject to enhanced risk management and brand protection
OUR SOLUTION
Bureau Veritas offers comprehensive quality assurance services continuously to support the preservation of your name and reputation. Prior to distribution, we may work with you to detect quality issues, monitor the lifespan of your private label brands, and evaluate the regulatory compliance of all your products, including textiles, clothing, and home furnishings.
- Technical Outerwear Testing: including moisture vapor transmission, air permeability analysis, waterproof performance and thermal insulation properties; Ultraviolet protection test (UVF)
- Down and Feather Analysis: including composition, oxygen content, turbidity and fill power
- Flammability Testing: for general wearing apparel, children’s sleepwear and home furnishings (rugs, carpets, blankets, etc.)
- Care Label Verification: and development to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of the Federal Trade Commission
- Colourfastness Testing: washing, crocking, lightfastness, perspiration, water, saliva, storage test etc.
- Detailed Yarn/Fabric and Garment Construction Analysis: including fabric weight, thread count, and yarn size, yarn spinning type
- Fibre Composition and Identification: on specialty fibres such as wool and cashmere, along with all fibre blends
- Mechanical Safety Review of children’s clothing to verify the product meets the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations for small parts, sharp edges, drawcords, etc.
- Hosiery Evaluations on socks and pantyhose, including detailed fit analysis
- Physical Testing: including tensile strength, tear strength, seam strength, attachment strength, etc.
- Performance Testing: including elongation, abrasion & pilling
- Trim Testing: for buttons, zippers, snaps, elastics, metal hardware, etc.
- Toxicology and RSL Testing: formaldehyde, lead content, EN-71, AZO dyes, nickel-free etc.
*Manufacturing Restricted Substances List (MRSL): for input chemical in production
- Chemical Discharge Monitoring Services: tool BVe3, ZDHC, GRS, QCVN 40 etc.
- Microbiology testing: odour test, anti-bacteria, mold analysis, etc.
STAR LEVEL APPROACH
Star Level Protocols are product testing packages that provide you the freedom to choose and tailor a testing package to suit your needs. They offer different degrees of testing and evaluation. Better budgeting and expenditure management for quality control will be possible as a result. The Star methods are a group of carefully selected, market-driven testing methods that are following legal and regulatory criteria. Our Star Level Protocols give you the option to select between simple product testing packages to satisfy minimum performance and legal requirements for market access (Star 1) and thorough testing needs that can assist you in achieving the highest quality level (Star 2).
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