UK Softlines and Hardlines Services

With over 30 years of experience, our UK team has been at the forefront of navigating complex technical regulations. We provide comprehensive services to ensure the quality, performance, safety, and sustainability of your consumer goods.

Our UK Centre of Excellence provides testing, assurance, inspection, and certification to support customers with:

• Fibre, flammability and performance testing of textiles, apparel and softhome furnishing
• Safety testing of consumer goods in accordance with industry standards
• Testing and certification of PPE, including protective clothing for motorcycle riders to safety gloves, boots, safety footwear and high-visibility outerwear
• Benchmarking of products to substantiate claims & improve quality and performance
• Comprehensive outsourcing solutions that blend technical expertise with seamless process management to simplify product compliance—whether you need technical guidance, supplier compliance monitoring and assessment, or ongoing ongoing technical retainers
• Technical expertise from R&D stage to certifying and launching products to market & beyond

We are here to ensure our clients can provide safe, quality-assured, sustainable solutions to their end markets across the world. Our UK based technical experts can support you with both UK and global market access through our global network, while offering services to ensure your products are safe & high quality. We can help you validate to your stakeholders that your product was made with sustainability in mind through its entire lifecycle, starting from raw materials, components, to transportation and finished products use, disposal, recovery, and reuse.

We continuously invest in our laboratories, ensuring we remain at the forefront of the industry, with state-of-the-art equipment, processes, and highly trained experts.

Our capabilities cover safety, quality and sustainability solutions covering:

Textiles

Footwear

Apparel

Leather

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Soft Home Furnishings

Gain a further insight into our testing and certification services by taking a tour of our laboratories and discover more about our testing solutions.