Leather Testing and Verification Services

Leather is a widely used and popular material across many industries including fashion and footwear, accessories and luggage, soft furnishings and commercial interiors. To assess the quality of the leather and ensure conformance to safety regulations, leather testing is essential by buyers and suppliers, particularly when leather involves heavy use of chemicals in the tanning phases.

With our leather expert Eurofins | BLC Leather Technology Centre at Northampton, Eurofins can offer various leather services:

• Chemical testing of restricted substances lists (RSL) and manufacturing restricted substances lists (MRSL) against key regulations e.g. EU REACH and CPSIA or clients’ own requirements
• Performance testing of the leather such as flexing and colourfastness
• Fault diagnosis
• Leather verification on genuine leather
• Species testing on cow, sheep, goat, pig or other animal species
• Supply chain mapping
• Vegan certification
• Environmental auditing (including LWG audits)

Leather or leathergoods buyers and suppliers can leverage our leather testing services to ensure meeting market access requirements and protect their brand images. Testing can be done at raw materials or final product stages on various goods that involve the use of leather:

• Different types of shoes
• Garments
• Small leathergoods such as leather gloves, purses/ wallets and phone cases
  Bags and luggage
• Jewellery and watches
• Accessories and stationery
• Upholstery and home textiles
• Commercial leather materials at hospitality environment, office furniture, automobile and transport industry (e.g. car and train seating)

Contact us for further information and to discuss your testing needs.