INSTITUTE FOR TESTING AND CERTIFICATION

Furniture

Furniture represents a very wide and variable range of products that we meet in all possible interiors. Furniture plays in human life next to the practical role also still more important aesthetical role which supported the development of new materials, constructions etc. That is connected with an increase of interest in this field also among standard-creators that have set up completely new standards focusing on assessment of mechanical and chemical properties of furniture including materials for their production. Although furniture does not fall under the international harmonized regulation, international as well as domestic producers still more care about increasing of not only a customer’s comfort but also safety and hygienic comfort.

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Sphere of testing

  • Chairs, tables
  • Garden furniture
  • Storage furniture
  • Working furniture
  • Dining furniture
  • Upholstered furniture, mattress, bed
  • Materials for furniture production
  • Furniture hardware, handles

Mechanical and physical tests

  • Functional proportions
  • Surface material attrition resistance
  • Strength of the joints
  • Mattress and upholstered furniture fatigue resistance
  • Lifting capacity of chairs
  • Fatigue testing of furniture hardware
  • Durability and stability

Artificial aging testing

  • colourfastness at light
  • climatic impacts resistance
  • water vapour and increased temperature resistance
  • chemicals influence resistance
  • clearing resistance

Undesirable substance capacity

  • formaldehyde capacity
  • heavy metals capacity
  • aromatic amine capacity
  • pesticide capacity
  • other undesirable substance capacity

Non-flammability

  • flammability of upholstered furniture
  • cigarette test
  • burning rate
  • flammability degree

Other related services

  • Certification of Management Systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001)
  • Calibration service and metrological consultation
  • Granting licenses for voluntary certification mark „ITC Certified Quality
  • Standardisation services and technical information
  • Technical consultation

CONTACTS

Mgr. Roman Dlabaja

mechanical tests

Ing. Daniel Vít

analysis


Post address:
Institute for Testing and Certification, Inc.
Marketing department
trida Tomase Bati 299, Louky, 763 02 Zlin
Czech Republic

The person responsible for accuracy of data: Mgr. Roman Dlabaja, Ph.D.