First-class quality, safety & regulatory testing services for your textile and clothing products, here in the UK

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

As a supplier or retailer of fashion products, you need to be sure that you’re able to reduce your costs wherever possible to remain competitive while still maintaining product quality, protecting your brands and meeting your customers’ high expectations when it comes to quality assurance, compliance and industry acceptance. It’s a difficult challenge but one that Bureau Veritas can help you to meet.

BUREAU VERITAS SOLUTION

Bureau Veritas have a first class textile & clothing testing laboratory in Warrington, Cheshire, that offers a full range of quality assurance and compliance testing services, fast turnaround of tests and access to a global network of laboratories should the need arise. In addition to this, our prices are some of the most competitive in the market... Our speed of service and breadth of technical ability means that our lab offers a truly exceptional one-stop-shop for textile and fabric testing.

The range of services we can offer includes;

• Less than 3 day* standard test turnaround
• Next day service available
• Product evaluation at development and pre-production stages
• Technical support network to answer questions and interpret results
• Defect analysis of complaint items or manufacturing defects
• Design evaluations regarding design concerns or regulatory requirements

What are the key benefits of choosing to work with us?

• Technical expertise
• Fast Turnaround
• Key retailer accreditations
• A one-stop-shop for a wide range of testing
• Save money on your bottom line by reducing your testing costs

OUR APPROACH

At Bureau Veritas, our Softline solutions can be as simple as purely testing the occasional garment/fabric or if required we have the expertise and resources to work with your whole supply chain to identify quality concerns prior to distribution. Our wide base of retailer acceptance also allows us to provide speedy access to your target markets.

Our services incorporate extensive testing capabilities including:

• Chemical testing for formaldehyde, EN-71, Azo dyes, pH Value, phthalates, nickel release and allergy causing / carcinogenic dyes
• Physical testing including force to seam rupture, tear properties, bursting strength, pilling / surface fuzzing, abrasion, elasticity and slippage
• Colour fastness tests to chlorinated water, to domestic and commercial laundering, to dry cleaning, to perspiration, to rubbing, to sea water, to water, phenolic yellowing and print durability.
• Flammability testing for general wearing apparel, children’s sleepwear and home furnishings (rugs, carpets, blankets, mattress pads)

We also have an extensive inspection, audit and assessment team who provide Social Audits, Factory Audits and Inspection services.