Softlines Services

Quality & Performance Testing

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:

Textile & Clothing

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