Guarantee the quality of your products

Whether you are a manufacturer, buying agent, wholesaler or retailer, you must be sure that your products meet quality and performance standards. A wide variety of materials are used to make textiles, clothing and footwear. To ensure everything meets the stringent quality requirements that apply in different global market segments, TÜV SÜD provides a comprehensive range of testing services for quality and performance.

A small sample of our testing services:

• Colour fastness
• Dimensional stability
• Print durability
• Tensile, Tear & Seam strength
• Special property testing like smoothness appearance
• Pilling resistance
• Abrasion resistance
• Wash care label verification 

Leather & Footwear

• Colour fastness
• Tensile, Tear & Seam strength
• Whole shoe bonding strength
• Whole shoe flexing
• Water vapour permeability & coefficient
• Water resistance by bally penetrometer & maeser
• Upper flexing by bally flexometer & vamp
• Sole flexing – benewart
• Sole abrasion – drum method
• Abrasion resistance – martindale
• Lace abrasion