Leather Upholstery Testing
Upholstery Testing at BLC
In today's competitive business environment, it is unacceptable for high value leather upholstery to fail in use. BLC provides a complete range of leather upholstery tests to prevent failure.
Currently leather upholstery accounts for around 40-50% of all upholstered furniture sold. Many manufacturers and retailers could benefit from a better understanding of how to buy leather and sell leather furniture.
The highest number of consumer complaints comes from the leather upholstery sector. Typical examples include finish cracking, colour loss/transfer, bagginess or a change in appearance.
A simple range of performance tests can ensure that leather furniture does not fail either in store or in use.
Every batch of leather used to make up leather furniture should be checked for light fastness, colour fastness, finish adhesion, flex endurance and strength.
BLC can
- test leather to determine performance
- identify problems with furniture and arbitrate in consumer claims
Automotive Leather Testing
BLC can provide leather testing for the automotive sector. Automotive leather testing is conducted to a wide range of different standards depending upon the target manufacturer.
We currently offer the full range of automotive leather testing according to the Bentley, CEN, Ford and Volvo specifications. In addition, we can offer automotive leather testing according to most of the other international automotive manufacturers' leather specifications (with the exception of a few specialist tests).
Whilst many of the automotive leather tests (particularly ageing) require long lead times, our aim is to provide a timely and cost effective service to the customer.
Key automotive tests are fogging, ageing, heat and humidity, lightfastness and emissions.
For further information contact info@blcleathertech.com or +44 (0) 1604 679999
Please see our specification page. Our aim is to provide test results within 3-5 days of receipt of samples.
BLC can help with all your testing needs. For further details please contact info@blcleathertech.com or +44 (0) 1604 679999.
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