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Children’s Wear Quality Management

Challenges

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Children's Wear Consumers Have Very High Expectations

Garments for a child, toddler or baby are very often an “emotional” purchase. Safety concerns are non-negotiable from a consumers’ perspective, and expectations on safety; physical, chemical and thermal risks, are high.
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Brands and Distributors Have a Very High Exposure Level

Negative impact of non-compliance is not an option. Our customers must comply strictly to market regulations; their suppliers must follow international best practices and standards. Our customers expect to work with a quality management partner that enables them to guarantee 100% the non - harmful properties of their products and the ' best practices ' of their vendors.
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Children's Wear Is Subject to Very Intensive Usage

Children, toddlers and babies wear should be functional (easy to put on), cute (colors), gentle and smooth (quality of fabrics), easy to maintain (care label, dimensional stability, etc), and have a good ratio of price to quality. All quality aspects of the product, whether perceived or intrinsic, must be taken into consideration. Fabrics functionality, fitting, head opening, design, and finishing are all parts of quality control, but must also be monitored up stream through active control steps during development and production.
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Good for Baby, Good for Earth

To produce garments for children, toddlers and babies today requires consideration of the longer-term impacts and sustainability of the products. Suppliers and brands are expected to follow international standards and best practices in terms of social and environmental compliance.

At SgT, we have a clear understanding of children’s, toddlers’, and baby clothing manufacturers and their brand’s challenges. We have specialized teams and managers who include children’s wear concerns in the daily operation processes of controls, audits, and testing.

Our team only consists of textile and apparel experts who have deep manufacturing & production background. Our factory expertise allows a better understanding & identification of materials or production failures that might lead to safety hazards. Coupled with our laboratory testing, we can help you secure quality children’s wear products that are safe and comply with your destination markets.

 

Our Solutions

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Technical Advisory

Secure the upstream part of your supply chain

  • Size set control
  • Size-wise head opening and pass test (minimum opening & wearability)
  • Manuals for Children’s Safety Standards
  • Collection review to identify the Risks at early stage including Safety Parameters and provide solutions to save time and cost
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Sustainability Services

Evaluate and improve the environmental impact of your products & processes

  • Higg Index FEM 3.0 verification & training (SAC69 approved) 
  • Environmental & chemical assessments & solutions 
  • Green claims verification & development 
  • Recycling verification services 
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Laboratory Expertise

Test your product performance and compliance

  • Physical, chemical and mechanical testing
  • Specific kids safety testing: drawstrings, sharp point, sharp edge, small parts, flammability testing for nightwear
  • Skin irritations and allergies due to textile processing (raw material, finished products and afterwards)
  • Care labeling testing
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Factory audit

Qualify your suppliers & evaluate their performance

  • Technical audits
  • Social audits
  • Environmental audits
  • Know-how transfer through training and controls
  • General Product Safety Audit
  • Metal Safety Audit
  • Snap & Functional Trims Audit
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Quality control

Monitor all production from raw material to finished product

  • Fabric & raw materials inspection 
  • Special inline inspection (respect of pattern & gradation) 
  • Special final inspection (fitting, clear definition of majors, stricter control of appearance) 
  • 100% textile inspection
  • Focus on safety aspects like Needle Control, Broken Needle, Metal Detection, Care Label review, Small parts / Accessories attachment, Functional Trims like Cords & Drawstrings, Zipper strength and function, Scratching or Sharp edges, No Fraying at edges, Loop perimeter, Minimum Neck Stretch, etc..
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Innovative solutions

  • Recycled Polyester Testing
  • Chem Scan Check
  • Remote operations