FILK's diverse research activities provide an extensive knowledge base that is continuously being expanded. Its broad range of services offers small and medium-sized companies as well as industry concrete solutions and supports their innovative strength. The independent and non-profit FILK Institute is characterised by its close proximity to industry and practical application orientation.
The Research Institute for Leather and Plastic Sheeting FILK is an accredited testing laboratory and non-university research institution in Germany. Beside Fashion oriented products, CITEVE is very active in high-tech applications as sports, personal protection, automotive, defense, habitat and health.
In addition to Testing and Certification services, the portfolio includes Research, Technology Development and Prototyping of high technicity products and solutions. CITEVE’s facilities include several laboratories like: Physics, Chemistry & Toxicology, Microbiology/Cyto-toxicology/DNA, Fibres, Metrology and Product Performance. At certification level, beside its own labels and the OEKO-TEX® portfolio, CITEVE Group is a European Notified Body for PPE certification. The labs are accredited by international organizations ensuring CITEVE’s recognition internationally.
CITEVE has an intense service of testing, based in cutting edge laboratories offering tests according to 900+ standards. AITEX also supplies manufacturers with necessary and appropriate product certifications to enable them to compete in the international marketplace and help gain a foothold in high added-value niche markets.ĬITEVE - Technological Centre for the Textile and Clothing Industries of Portugal - is a research and testing institute with headquarters in Portugal and offices in 4 continents, supporting the competitiveness of textile, clothing and technical textiles companies since 1989. To this end, the institute promotes modernisation and new emerging techologies via R&D projects and in general through any activity which contributes to the sector’s industrial progress. The institute’s core mission is to transfer technical know-how and knowledge to textile manufaturers to help them become more competitive, create more value and allow them access to new business opportunities. AITEX (the Textile Industry Research Association) is a private research association which undertakes characterisation testing and certification of textile articles and materials in the areas of fashion and clothing, health and medicine, hygiene and cosmetics, workwear, personal protection equipment, sports and leisure, public transport, the automotive industry, marine, aeronautics, civil engineering and construction and sports surfaces, among others.
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