From 13th to 17th, we took part in the INTERMOB Furniture Expo. Chair Assembly Testing Machine, Mattress Roller Tester and Martindale Abrasion and Pilling Tester were displayed on the exhibition. We received customers from over 10 countries, like Turkey, Russia, Iran, Egypt, Romania. GESTER provide different solutions according to different demands of customer. BIFMA & EN1335 standard are the most concerned topic of our furniture testing customers. Welcome to contact us if you also need solutions for these standards. Face to face communication can help us to know more about customers potential demands, Turkey is only a part of our plan, GESTER will visit and provide on-site service to more and more customers. Please do not hesitate to contact us if anything we can do for you.

GESTER’s team went to Istanbul Turkey from 6th to 18th October, 2018. We help Kazlicesme Labs with installing Toy Testing Equipment for EN71-1&2 Standards including GT-M31 Motor Horizontal Brake Performance Tester, GT-M19 Dynamic Strength & 2m/s. Tester, GT-M60 Noise Testing Stand etc,and training related over 60 machines from 8th to 10th. Mr. Hassan, lab manager, speaks highly of our efficiency installation and professional training. As regular customer visit and after-sale service, our sales representative and technician also visited SGS Supervise Gözetme Etüd Kontrol Serv. A.Ş., TÜV Rheinland Uluslararası Standartlar Sertifikasyon ve Denetim A.Ş., TOYSLAB Test Hizmetleri A.Ş.,and AZOLAB Laboratuvar Hizmetleri A.Ş. during this business trip. We summarized our productions and service after visiting and communicating with customer, and very appreciate on customers suggestion.   Face to face communication can help us to know more about customers potential demands, Turkey is only a part of our plan, GESTER will visit and provide on-site service to more and more customers. Please do not hesitate to contact us if anything we can do for you.

The second phase of volunteer activities of Gester         On the 13TH.October , 2018, the members of the GESETR Volunteer Association, led by the General Manager Ms. Hua, go to the Ba Xian Zhuo School to show their love. This activity is mainly to help the children from migrant workers’families, disadvantaged families and the left-behind children to get more more care. The GESETR Volunteers Association donates books of brand new, stationeries, insulated mugs, and etc. During the period, Ms. Hua and her team plays games with the children and teaches them to sing a English song and have an in-depth understanding of the situation of their learning and current life. Mr. Hua said, ‘we will organize our company employees to teach babies to learn English regularly, and will take the volunteer association as corporate culture passed on. Hope to improve the moral accomplishments of staff’. Every Child was enjoyed the time with us, and make a sachet for Mrs. Hua as a souvenir.  

In daily life, people would find that the sole and upper of newly white shoes would become yellowing. Do you know why it would yellowing? That’s because the phenomenon of color yellowing of footwear materials like PU polyurethane, UV-free antioxidant TPR thermoplastic rubber, and leather coated with polymer materials are likely to occur under exposuring to sunlight, ultraviolet light for a long time or in the heat, oxygen, stress, trace moisture, improper processing. Reducing and prolonging the yellowing time has always been an urgent problem to be solved. Many shoe-making enterprises refer to HG/T 3689-2014 "Shoes for yellowing resistance test method" to determine the yellowing resistance of finished shoes and footwear materials. And the test of yellowing resistance has also become an important test for the quality management of the footwear industry. What can we do in daily life to delay the yellowing of light-colored shoes? The following methods are for reference only, and take care that do not to expose the shoes to the sun or to expose them to high temperatures. A.Maintenance during washing It is best to choose neutral detergent (soap with a pH value between 6 and 8, liquid detergent, etc.), do not choose ordinary alkaline detergent. White shoes are better avoided being washed with water, and handled in time when shoes are a little dirty, so as to clean them up and prevent damage to the upper caused by long-term stains. When drying after washing, better to use paper towel to wrap, it can prevent white shoes to become yellow and even let white shoes go back to the original color. Do not exposed to the sun. Ultraviolet light is the main cause of rapid yellowing. B.Collection maintenance The white shoe that does not wear temporarily, better clean thoroughly before collect, prevent dirty mark to remain for a long time to produce mildew possibility. When collecting, choose dry place to store, better to put away in originally shoe box. In order to protect the shape of the white shoes, it can also be inserted into the shoe last or the old newspaper to fix, it will be taken out as new. A little desiccant can be put into the shoe box to anti-worms and keep dry. Choose the shoes which are hard to discolor will let white shoes to maintain the beautiful white color all the time.  How to know if a pair of shoes will turn yellow in a short time? Please choose GESTER GT-KD02 UV Light Discoloration Tester to test for you.

Everyone is familiar with clothes pilling, believe that many people have met clothing pilling after wearing a period of time. Pilling is one of the important factors which affect the feeling, appearance and wear performance of the fabric. So where does it come from? What kind of cloth will get pilling easily? How does the laboratory test and evaluate the pilling performance of clothing? Where does it come from? The fabric being constantly friction while using, so that the surface fiber ends been pulled by dragged, hooked and pulled out, and the phenomenon of forming hairiness on the fabric surface was called fluffing. As the hairiness is gradually extracted and extended, generally more than 5mm, and then bearing the friction, these fiber ends will hook each other, winding to form an irregular spherical phenomenon known as pilling. As the fabric continues to rub, the fiber balls gradually become closer and the fibers attached to the fabric are subjected to repeated bending, fatigue and even fracture in different directions. The fiber balls then fall off the fabric surface, but the fiber hairs at the end of the fracture will continue to be pulled out in use and form the fiber balls again. Why does it pill? The continuous mechanical action such as friction and hook during the wearing or washing of clothes causes the pilling of clothes. What kind of cloth will get pilling easily? Wool and its blended fabric: knitted sweater class, woollen sweater class, wool sweater. Chemical staple fiber and its blended fabric: polyester cotton, polyester viscose, nitrile cotton, etc. The knitting category of light fabric: pure cotton rack, mordale, viscose, tiansi and other recycled cellulose fiber fabrics. Embroidered cowboy. How does laboratory test pilling performance? Principle and instrument: Surface Fuzzing and Pilling Tester The sample is rubbed with nylon brush and fabric abrasive or only with fabric abrasive on a specified number of times under specified pressure to make the surface of the sample pilling. The method is fast and can simulate the tripping and pilling of the fabric. It is suitable for the knitted fabric such as garment and T-shirt. Martindale Abrasion and Pilling Tester Under specified pressure, the circular sample rotates freely around the center axis perpendicular to the plane of the sample, and the trajectory of the lizaru figure is rubbed with the same fabric or wool fabric abrasive. Suitable for bed category testing. ICI Pilling and Snagging Tester The sample installed on the polyurethane tube is flipped randomly in a wooden box with constant rotation speed and lined with cork. After a specified number of turns, the pilling and/or pilling performance is evaluated visually. Applicable to the testing of sweater - like textiles. Random Tumble Pilling Tester     Random rolling pilling is used to make the fabric tumble and rub randomly in a cylindrical test chamber lined with cork gaskets and a small am...

The common problem of cracking of trousers and apparel products is that the tension is large during people's wearing, especially when they are squatting, and they are often in a tortuous state. Many clothing companies have encountered market complaints due to cracked pants and worn pants. So how did this happen? How to control quality? Analysis of the causes of cracking of pants The reason for the cracking of the pants can be attributed to three categories. The first category: the poor of fabric breaking strength and tear strength.The mainly reason is that the clothing companies do not strictly control the indicators of product strength, as long as the strong standards are controlled, they can be avoided.Every clothing companies can test sample all kinds of material in the process of manufacturing finished garments. The second category: poor wear resistance.The breaking strength and tearing strength of this kind of fabric can reach the national standard, but the fabric is cracked after repeated bending and wear of the fabric during the wearing process, but the consumers wear fabric in the process of repeated twists and wear cause the phenomenon of cracking. The most typical denim fabric, its breaking and tearing strength must meet the requirements of FZ/T 81006-2007 "Jeanswear". During the wearing process, the pants fabric is first worn and then cracked, especially the polyester-cotton interwoven jeans which are dealt by resin. The resin dealing causes the abrasion resistance of the fabric to decrease, resulting in serious wear. In addition to jeans fabrics, there is also a class of chemical fiber interwoven fabrics that are easily overlooked by apparel manufacturers. These fabrics all contain chemical fibers. Because the chemical fiber strength is generally high, it will cause an illusion when tested, and the tearing and breaking strength is very high. In fact, this is because of the high-strength chemical fiber support. The strength of the fabric is poor, such as cellulose fiber cannot be reflected. This situation leads to mass accidents that occur during wear.To test the quality of such fabrics, only focus on breaking strength and tearing strength can not be effectively controlled, but also to increase the wear resistance test. The third category: yarn slippage at the seam of the crotch.These fabrics can reached national standards in all aspects,even exceed it. But the yarn can easily slip off the seam, causing cracking. Cracking remedies and precautions In the dyeing production and the washing process of finished pants, a large amount of softener is added in order to improve the feel of the pants. However, this process exacerbates the slippage cracking and need cracking inhibitor to for remedy for that. The cracking inhibitor is a high molecular polymer which increases the surface friction coefficient of the yarn and improves the slip of the fabric. Nevertheless, this method is an after-the-fact remedy, increasing costs, time and effort, and ...

Does below situation happens to your new shoes with a bonding gap or sole-crack for wearing within a short time? Just as below pictures: What happens? You might say the quality of the shoes is not so well, so where the problem lies in? The reason why this situation appears is that the the flexing resistance of the finished shoes is a failure. The flexing resistance of finished shoes refers to the finished shoes’ durability for the bending or folding under a certain temperature and certain force. General speaking, it’s a repetition twisting process between human foot and shoes. The test standard for shoes flexing resistance: GB/T 3903.1-2017Footwear,Test Method for  Whole shoe , Flexing Resistance.This test standard is used for test whole shoes and sole, not suitable for the heel excess 70mm, or the part of sole’s flexing more than 25mm,or the finished shoes with strong stiffness. This is Flexing Resistance Tester: The testing principle of Shoes Flexing Tester is to use a cutting knife cut a crack with specified length of whole shoes or sole, then to do the flexing test under certain angle and rate. After test, measure the length of the crack and at the same time, observe the changes of the joints of the upper surface, the sole and the bottom (including the fence and the bottom wall). Move like this: Is it a similar motion when you are walking? Each test should need not less than a pair of whole shoes or sole.  The test bending angle should be （50±1）°, the flexing rate should be （230±10）times/min. The test temperature should be （23±2）℃. Do the test for 40,000.00 circles. As below pictures show: The standard requires the cutting position should be in the middle of the toe flexion of the sole of the shoe, and the sole needs to be cut through.   As showed in the pictures: Not all the shoes need the cutting crack in advance, different standards requires different specification. For example: Sneaker （GB/T 15107-2013） It requires not cutting, and it continually bends 40,000 times, the qualified products should not be crack after the bending. The bottom wall, upper bottom the shoe sole should be ≤5.0mm;After folding, the shoe sole shall not have more than 3 cracks, and the longest crack length shall be ≤5.0mm;The sole must not appear Color falling off; air (liquid) cushion should not appear air leakage (liquid) or collapse phenomenon after folding the air cushion shoe. leisure shoe   （QB/T 2955-2017） It requires cutting 5.0mm in advance, qualified products require that the length of the cut opening is ≤ 20.0mm after bending. The new crack length is ≤ 5.0mm after folding, and should not exceed 3 places. After the fold, there should be no cracking on the face, cracking or opening the bottom, and is no testing the fold resistance if the shoe size is below 230mm. Natural leather out sole also does not measure wear resistance. Test Results: 1.Number of newly generated cracks and longest new crack length, glue failure length of the bon...

Regulatory and compliance requirements are great challenges for toy companies trying to enter the Indian market. Vast majority of toy products must meet local authority request according to specific product scope before entering Indian market. Toy companies will continually enhance their competitiveness only if they meet these demands. The General Directorate of Foreign Trade of India (DGFT) stipulates  toys export to India market must get test report provided by NABL since September 1st, 2017. In particular, so far, DGFT only requires test reports, there’s no special requirements on BIS certificates and registration , we will keep a close watch on the latest policy tendency. All toys exported to India must meet following standards: IS 9873-1-2001  Safety Requirements For Toys - Part 1: Safety Aspects Related To Mechanical And Physical Properties (Third Revision) IS 9873-2-2012  Safety Of Toys - Part 2: Flammability (Third Revision) IS 9873 : Part 3  Safety of Toys Part 3 Migration of Certain Elements (Second Revision)   IS: 9873 (Part 4) - Toy Safety: Activity toys for swings, slides and similar indoor and outdoor homes IS: 9873 (Part 7) - Toy Safety: Refers to the requirements and test methods for paints IS 9873 : Part 9：2017  Safety of Toys Part 9 Certain Phthalates Esters in Toys and Children Products   BIS IS 15644-2006  Safety Of Electric Toys GESTER help toy manufacturers to successfully meet the IS 9873 toy safety mandatory standards. GESTER Instrument Co., Ltd specialized in physical performance testing equipment production, research and development field. With nearly 20 years of research and development experience, we can help our customers like toy manufacturers to expand the Indian market. GESTER's main features: 1.Provide one-stop toy testing solution. 2.Experienced technicians - provide best services to meets strict requirement of NABL. 3. Comprehensive toy safety testing solution - including a proven test method whether the toy meets brand specifications or conform to global market regulations and standards, such as International (ISO 8124), Euro (EN 71), Americas (ASTM F963) and new IS 9873 standard. GESTER provide special promotion to feedback new and old clients, please contact us.