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Testing and Quality Assurance
All of the Company's administrative and manufacturing functions are guided and controlled by its Total Quality Management System encompassing both Quality Assurance and Quality Control functions accounting for approximately 21% of the Company's manufacturing personnel.
The Total Quality Management System is Company-wide encompassing training and education of our associates, vendor certification procedures, process control, cost reduction and efficiency improvement initiatives, quality assurance, continuing education, testing, and inspection.
Fab maintains and operates its own certified in-house laboratory testing facilities. State of the art testing apparatus is located and maintained in certifiable condition allowing the Company to test for:
- "Childrens-FR" sleepwear compliance pursuant to US laws and regulations;
- NFPA 701 and similar home furnishing flammability testing;
- FAA flammability testing for passenger aircraft cabin material;
- Specific customer mandated quality & testing programs;
- Colorfastness;
- P.H.;
- Phenolic yellowing;
- Dimensional stability;
- Peeling resistance;
- Strength;
- Elongation;
- Weight;
- Water repellency;
- Moisture Management;
- Vertical wicking;
- Moisture absorption;
- Datacolor spectrophotometer shade assessment;
- Macbeth spectra 11 visual shade assessment
