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Leathergoods and Luggage Testing

Industries serviced: Consumer Goods and Retail; Textile, Apparel and Footwear

Testing can be performed on a wide range of materials, products, product lines, prototype creations, and services.

Leathergoods, including clothing, belts, small goods are not only high value items, but are also highly variable in terms of

  • Species
  • Types of Leather
  • Dyeing / Colour
  • Chemicals Employed in Finishing
  • Microbiological Activity

Intertek has unparalleled expertise in identifying the species and the chemicals used in dyeing and finishing, ensuring that the products meet your Quality requirements. Our laboratories have the capabilities to validate Professional Leather Clean Labels, and can not only reveal any deficiencies, but also can suggest remedial measures.

Luggage, bags, and handbags are designed to ensure safe transit of other valuable personal items. It is, therefore, necessary to test for  strength of

  • Fastening
  • Buckles
  • Handles
  • Wheels / Rollers

In addition to fastness of color to various agencies, Intertek's laboratories have extensive expertise to test for the intended performance of your luggage, ensuring its safety.

In an era where global concern to “go green” complements a simultaneous need to ban and/or restrict hazardous substances in consumer products, end user safety is at the very forefront of Intertek’s mission. Legal requirements in many countries, particularly in the European Union, mandate that products, such as clothing, bedding, towels, hairpieces, wigs, hats, diapers and other sanitary products, footwear, gloves, watch straps, belts, purses/wallets, briefcases, chair covers, toys and others, that have potential for direct and prolonged skin or oral contact, are to be tested for high or unacceptable levels of suspected carcinogens or allergenic substances like the following:

  • Formaldehyde Content
  • Dimethylfumarate Research and Testing
  • Extractable Heavy Metals: such as antimony (Sb), arsenic (As), lead (Pb ), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), copper (Cu), chromium (Cr) total, chromium (Cr) VI, cobalt (Co), and nickel (Ni)
  • Pesticides & Herbicides Residues
  • Pentachlorophenol (PCP)
  • Tetrachlorophenol (TeCP)
  • PVC Plasticizers - Phthalates
  • Organotin Compounds - TBT & DBT
  • Azo / Carcinogenic / Allergenic Dyes
  • Chlorinated Organic Carriers
  • Biocides
  • Flame Retardants
  • pH Value

Intertek is able to test for and detect all these hazards, as well as offer consultancy advisory services on reducing the overall ecological impact of these products.

to see how Intertek can help your organization with Leathergoods and Luggage Testing.

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