Testing is an important step in textile and apparel production, especially when you produce your products in Indonesia. During textile testing, the variation of a fabric, such as length, color, fineness, threads per inch, and cover factor, are properly checked to ensure that your product’s quality is good. Conducting continuous textile testing results in improved and more efficient production output. Apparel testing allows you as an importer to evaluate and ensure the quality of the products that will be worn by your customers.
While design and color may sell products, delivering quality and safety ensures customers’ loyalty by meeting the high expectations of today’s market. Nevertheless, manufacturers, retailers, importers, and buying agents, while dealing with a rapid turnover of fashion cycles, have pressure to cut costs and to face complex interactions of the global supply chain.
The Importance of Textile and Apparel Testing
Textile and apparel testing are important and performed in order to evaluate and ensure the quality of the products are safe for customers to use and fit for the purpose, conforms to international or regional compliance, retains performance specifications, quality standards, meets product liability, environmental, prevents claims and recalls, and promotes product safety.
On the other hand, it is also important for the manufacturers to learn and understand the fabric testing methods established by the client to meet their quality compliance. If they ignore this, it may run into problems such as receiving a chargeback claim or returned product.
It is critical to note that all standards and regulations applied in textile and apparel testing have one or both of the following goals: safety and quality. While quality is more closely related to overall customers’ satisfaction, safety is an important consideration because products that do not meet regulations can endanger the customers’ health.
Many internationally recognized standards and practices for testing yarn, fabrics, clothing, and other materials are applicable for Europe and the United States and are broadly denoted by the names of well-known institutions that developed them. Some tests are highly specialized, but there is a core set of tests that apply depending on the end-use of the products. Methodology and equipment may differ between regional labs, but the basic goals remain the same.
What we can do for you
Ensuring the quality of your products with our lab test and certification services is one of our goals. Excellencial has accredited partners in Indonesia to test and certify your products from harmful substance content and any physical, qualitative characteristics from fabric samples to finished products. Our Textiles and Apparel industry solutions include the following products:
- Activewear
- Apparel for kids and adults: pajamas, sweaters, jeans, outerwear, etc.
- Underwear
- Leather goods
- Garment accessories
- Home furnishings: bedding, curtains, upholstery, etc.
Testing scope
- Fiber identification
- Feather testing
- Fiber labeling
- Care labeling
- Colorfastness testing
- Dimensional stability
- Fabric construction testing
- Strength testing
- Chemical testing
- Flammability testing
- Performance and endurance testing
- Product packaging testing
Certification scope
- Chemical certification
- Eco-certification
- SA8000
- WRAP