New lab within Eurofins network - BLC Leather Technology Centre
Product Ranges
Apparel, Footwear and Fashion Accessories
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Components for Apparel, Footwear and Fashion Industry
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Home Textiles, Technical Textiles and Safety Products
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- Adult and Children Apparel
- Sportswear
- Footwear
- Bags and Luggage
- Shawls, Hats, Gloves, Scarfs, Ties…
- Hairpins, Body ornaments
- Glasses, Cases
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- Heels, Lasts, Forms
- Buckles, Ornaments
- Materials (natural or Synthetic)
- Fabric and Yarns
- Finishing and Dying products
- Leather
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- Home Textiles and Upholstery
- Safety Clothing, Footwear and products
- Textile for Industrial, Medical, Building and Construction or Professional use
- Catering Textile, Food Contact Textile (Fishing nets, etc.)
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Chemical and Mechanical Testing
Chemical Analysis
- Phthalates
- Azo-dyes
- SCCP (Short Chain Chlorinated Paraffin )
- 18 PAH ( Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
- BPA
- Flame retardant : TCEP, TCPP et TDCP
- Formaldehyde
- Pentachlorophenol and Tetrachlorophenol
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- Foramide
- Allergenous dyestuff
- Carcinogen dyestuff
- Organotin
- APEO
- DMFu
- Nickel release
- PFOS and PFOA
- Organochlorines
- Extractable metals (9)
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- Chrome VI
- Total Lead
- Total Cadmium
- Fiber composition
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Mechanical Testing
- Thread count
- Yarn density
- Weight per unit area
- Size & fitting test
- Color fastness to:
- washing
- dry cleaning
- light
- Perspiration
- pool water
- sea water
- Phenolic Yellowing
- Spray test
- Air permeability
- Protection against fire
- Fire resistance
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- Dimensional stability to washing with domestic machine
- Snarling after washing
- Appearance after washing with domestic machine
- Pilling Martindale
- Tensile strength
- Burst strength
- Tear resistance Elmendorf
- Seams slippage
- Hydrostatic pressure test
- Passage of filling material through fabric
- Abrasion on socks
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- Leather or other upper:
- Flex resistance
- Resistance to tear strength
- Colour fastness to dry / wet rubbing
- Outsole:
- Flex resistance
- Abrasion resistance
- Tear strength
- Top piece retention strength
- Top piece/heels - Resistance to knocks
- Whole shoe
- Adhesion between outsole & upper
- Flex resistance
- Strength of end point
- Shoes - Tear resistance of lining
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