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MUNICH - Personnel from SDL Atlas offices and distributors on every continent welcomed a large number of visitors to their booth during ITMA 2007 -- the textile industry's global showcase for equipment and accessories.
The company displayed a variety of its products during the eight-day event. Visitors asked questions, colllected product information and watched demonstration of new SDL Atlas testing technology as well as long-standing industry favorites. Of special interest to attendees was the first appearance at ITMA of the Seating Guarded Hotplate -- compliant to ISO Standard 11092 -- and the MMT Moisture Management Tester, designed to measure three key parammeters relating to moisture transport in fabrics. SDL Atlas officals reported much interest from a number of commercial test houses as well as fabric producers and specifiers.
SDL Atlas offered visitors an opportunity to compare the benefits of an array of differennt approaches for measuring pilling. Attendees were provided detailed insights into the merits of the PillGrade 3D fabric scanning system that delivers automated pilling assessment.
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*** September, 2007 ***
ATLAS Press Release: Official opening of the new Atlas® Outdoor Exposure Site Chennai, India New facility provides tropical climate testing environment.  ATLAS Press Release: Atlas offers enhanced material testing solutions for the textile industry Improved functionality, scalability and ease-of-use to meet exacting test parameters of the textile industry
*** October, 2006 ***
ATLAS Press Release: Atlas Material Testing Technology Announces New Consulting Group BS7907 Code of practice for the design and manufacture of children's clothing to promote mechanical safety is currently under review - It is reported the review will conclude changes in the technology for testing snaps and poppers is required to ensure greater constancy and integrity in test results. SDL Atlas is a member of the British textile Machinery Association SDL Atlas and Tinius Olsen personnel actively involved in developing testing methods include Bob Lattie, Sylvia Hillier, Rose Muat, Steve Coombes. | |||||||
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Intertek Opens New Textile Testing Laboratory in Cairo
Egypt is one of the major hubs for the textile industry in the world. The influx of large modern factories and facilities demonstrates the growth of the industry in the country. The textile industry represents 27% of total industrial production in Egypt and Intertek has been a part of quality assurance modes in the country for the past few years. Now, to keep up with emerging and increasing demands for stringent quality assurance for textile goods, the global leader in quality testing, INTERTEK, has opened a new laboratory in Cairo; with this new lab, Intertek’s services and network in the region is further extended to better serve their customers.
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Tinius Olsen and SDL Atlas both attend and work within the Working Groups at BSI, CEN and ISO meetings and the Tasks groups at ASTM on the revision and development of standards. If you are a Retailer specifying end-use performance, these are the methods of test and standards you should be looking at to ensure your products are fit for purpose. more >>
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Why choose SDL Atlas and a Tinius Olsen testing system?
Babak Bahojb-Allafan, SDL Atlas Technology Manager for Tinius Olsen testing systems, explains: "Our aim is to help people improve their testing capability across a diverse range of applications from regular woven fabrics to high performance materials in sports footwear such as those being developed to provide greater protection to for our world cup footballers feet or the security of snaps and poppers on children's wear. If a customer has set out a test method for button strength, our challenge is to interpret the requirement and program it into our software platform ensuring the method is quick and easy to use while assuring full compliance with the guiding standard whether that is an international standard for example ISO or ASTM or a retailer standard such as Marks & Spencer, NEXT. Thus the knowledge and expertise of our fully qualified materials testing technologists is key to developing an appropriate solution."
The Tinius Olsen software platform includes over 320 pre written accredited methods including those defined by all the major US and European retailers. Already this year the team at SDL Atlas and Tinius Olsen have added and updated methods for Adidas, NEXT, M&S, BS 3084 tests for zippers and a specific range of tests for leather. |
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