Test laboratory

foamtex has its own test laboratory including areas with special climatic conditions needed for testing of textiles. The laboratory contains equipment for making "guiding" tests of the properties of textile floor coverings:

EN 1307 Textile floor coverings - Classifications of pile carpets

• ISO 1765 : Machine-made textile floor coverings - Determination of thickness.
• ISO 1766 : Textile floor coverings - Determination of thickness of pile above the substrat.
• ISO 1763 : Carpets - Determination of number of tufts and/or loops per unit length and per unit area.
• ISO 8543 : Textile floor coverings - Methods for determination of mass (total weight, mass/m²).
• ISO 105-B02 : Textiles - Test for colour fastness - Part B02 : Colour fastness to artificial light : Xenon arc fading lamp test.
• EN-ISO 105 - X12 : Textiles - Test for colour fastness- Part X12 : Colour fastness to rubbing.
• EN - ISO 105 - E01: Textiles - Test for colour fastness - Part E01: Colour fastness to water.
• prEN 1963 : Testing of wear using the Lisson Tretrad machine.
  • Test A: Determination of mass loss of textile floor coverings.
  • Test B: Determination of stair nosing appearance change of textile floor coverings.
  • Test C: Determination of fibre bind on synthetic loop carpets.
• prEN 1813 : Textile floor coverings - Determination of wool fibre integrity using an abrasion machine.
• ISO/TR 10361: Textile floor coverings - Production of changes in appearance by means of a Vettermann drum and hexapod tumbler testers.
• EN 985 : Textile floor coverings : Castor chair test
• prEN 1815 : Resilient and textile floor coverings - Assessment of static electrical propensity.
• prEN 1814 : Textile floor coverings - Determination of resistance to fraying of edge using the modified Vettermann drum test.
• ISO 10965 : Determination of electrical resistance.
• ISO 2551 : Machine-made textile floor coverings - Determination of dimensional changes due to the effects of varied water and heat conditions.

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