Textiles Testing
From raw materials to finished products, we deliver accurate, compliant, and timely testing solutions to help your business succeed—across borders and industries.
How can we help you?
As we enter a generation where fashion and clothing play a vital role in personal identity, the importance of textile and apparel testing in the fashion industry continues to grow. Testing has become essential for apparel manufacturers, clothing retailers, and fashion wholesalers to evaluate and ensure product quality before garments are produced and delivered to the end consumer.
Textile and apparel testing is primarily aimed at ensuring both safety and quality. While quality focuses on the product’s features and appeals to general consumers, safety is concerned with protecting customers from potential health hazards. Achieving the right balance of these two aspects results in reliable textile and apparel products that customers can trust.
What We Do In Textile Testing?
Appearance
- After washing / dry cleaning
- Smoothness, puckering
- Bowing or skewing / spirality
- Pilling / fuzziness
- Colour change,Self staining
- Print deterioration
- Visual seam opening
- Fraying of surface & seam threads
- Effect on decoration, embellishment, zippers, accessories, labels etc.
- Others
Color Fastness
- Washing
- Water
- Rubbing
- Perspiration
- Saliva
- Light
- Dry Cleaning
- Bleaching : chlorine/ non-chlorine
- Hot pressing
- Dry heat
- Scrubbing
- Ozone fading
- Others
Performance
- Tensile / bursting strength
- Tear strength
- Seam strength
- Pilling / fuzziness
- 1/3/5 wash cycles,Sometimes upto 25 wash cycles
- Appearance
- Absorbency
- Dimensional stablity to washing /
- Tuft withdrawal force
- Pull of attachment strength
- Others
Construction
- Fiber composition
- Count / denier of warp & weft
- Twist
- Weight per unit area(square / linear)
- Ends & picks per unit length
- Wales & courses (thread density)
- Total count of yarn
- Type of weave
- Width
- Thickness
Specialized Tests
- Flammability (vertical / inclined)
- Flammability (carpet and rugs)
- Water repellency
- Oil repellency
- Anti bacterial property
- UV protection property
- Ageing
- Whiteness
- Color difference
- Fibre labeling
- Wash care suggestion & labeling
- Small parts
- Sharp points & edges
- PVC (FTIR)
- Other Regulatory test parameters
- Others
Eco Parameters
- pH
- Formaldehyde
- Release of banned amines (from azo dyes)
- Carcinogenic / allergenic dyes
- Pesticides
- Phthalates
- Heavy metals
- PCP/TCP/TECP/OPP
- Organotin compounds
- Nickel release(metallic accessories)
- Forbidden Flame Retardant
- Chromium VI
- Monomer in PVC
- Chlorinated benzene & Toluene
- Butylated Hydroxy Toluene (BHT)
- Aromatic hydrocarbons
- Sensory odor test
- others
Accessories Tests
- Pull off
- Attachment
- Corrosions
- Color fastness
- Others
Test For Safety
- Attachment test
- Tension test
- Torque tests
- Others
We Also Specialize In
Laboratory Setup
We provide full support in Customized Laboratory Setup as per Standard Requirement either it can be in-house and commercial laboratory. The Laboratory Setup Services includes;
- LAYOUT
- DESIGN
- SERVICES DRAWING
- CIVIL WORK
- EQUIPMENT SELECTION
- TRAINING
- ACCREDITATION SUPPORT
Training
We enhance the knowledge and capability to the Laboratory Personnel through detailed training which includes;
- INDIAN STANDARD
- ISO STANDARD
- AATCC STANDARD
- ASTM D STANDARD
- CLIENT SPECIFIC METHODS
- COUNTRY SPECIFIC METHODS
KPBL Services, recognizes the value customers place on the textiles and apparel they use daily. Our testing process evaluates various key attributes such as length, color, fineness, threads per inch, cover factor, and more. Regular testing ensures superior quality and reliable results by assessing physical and chemical properties, strength, performance, and eco-friendly standards. KPBL Services offers a comprehensive range of tests on woven, non-woven, and knitted fabrics and garments, as well as testing of dyes and textile auxiliaries.
