Our lab is equipped with numerous types of abrasion test equipment such as the accelerator, stoll (flex and inflated diaphragm), martindale, wyzenbeek, taber, and pilling to name just a few. Our abrasion equipment is staffed with trained professionals who are ready to tackle your technical problems or evaluate your new fabric or garment developments.

Care Label Determination

Development of care instructions involves fitting a suitable laundering procedure to the submitted fabric or garment. Our trained staff will subject your sample to various test methods until a satisfactory procedure is found based on shrinkage and appearance results.

We can also verify that existing care label or customer laundering instructions are suitable by subjecting them to a series of tests such as shrinkage, appearance, colorfastness, and restoration.

Colorfastness Tests

Our colorfastness laboratory has the equipment and supplies to perform numerous types of colorfastness testing ranging from chemical to carbon and xenon arc evaluations. If you have a color related challenge send it our way and we will work to solve your problem.

Our laboratory professionals can analyze fibers, yarns, fabrics, and finishes using standardized test methods. We are available to perform product development evaluations, competitive analyses, and conduct detailed research projects.

Our flammability laboratory is managed and operated by an experienced flame technician specialist. We perform numerous flame tests for clothing retailers, mattress ticking manufacturers, automotive fabric manufacturers, carpet manufacturers, and protective fabric and garment manufacturers.

Our staff analyzes geotextiles and geosynthetic materials using ASTM test methods for abrasion, construction and composition, extractions, dimensional stability, and strength and elongation properties.

Our laboratory staff has the capability of evaluating socks for construction, abrasion, and strength. We also have the ability to perform the NAHM Form Fit Test using the Renfro Durometer method.

Our laboratory is fully equipped with home washers and dryers, as well as commercial washers. Experienced staff evaluates fabrics, garments, drapery, and bedding for dimensional stability, general and smoothness appearances. We are available to test one sample or to conduct an elaborate research project based on your company’s needs.

Not only do we evaluate woven fabrics but we can evaluate your non-woven products too. Our list of test evaluations include, but are not limited to, wicking, abrasion, strength, repellency, stiffness, and construction.

Our laboratory is fully equipped with textile testing devices. We spend time training our staff to insure that they perform nothing but quality testing.

Our laboratory is fully equipped and staffed to serve all of your textile strength testing needs.

Our trained staff is available to perform resistance and absorbency tests as simple as a drop test to as complex as a rain test.

Yarn and fabric manufacturers turn to TexTesT for their product evaluation needs. We use standardized tests to perform analysis for fiber length, fiber crimp, filament count, melting point, and yarn and thread shrinkage.

Toy Testing

Not only do we have the capability to evaluate textiles, but we can evaluate toys and baby necessities also. Our staff is trained to evaluate toys and other baby related articles for use by children under 8 years of age. We use Federal regulations and ASTM requirements to evaluate toys, pacifiers, and rattles.