VeriQ

Quality Inspections for Shoes & Footwear in Asia

Veriquality offer comprehensive footwear inspection and testing services to ensure the quality and safety of your products. Our team of experienced professionals leverages advanced technology and industry-leading protocols to meticulously examine every aspect of your footwear, from material composition and construction to performance and compliance.

Shoes & Footwear Testing

The footwear industry faces growing challenges as consumer expectations and demands continue to rise. Product recalls are often triggered by physical and chemical hazards. To stay competitive and protect profit margins, footwear companies must meet delivery deadlines while ensuring compliance with stringent quality and safety standards. This requires a concerted focus on streamlining operations, implementing quality control measures, and collaborating across the supply chain.

Veriquality provides comprehensive quality assurance services to ensure the integrity of all types of footwear products. Our experienced inspectors thoroughly evaluate the physical and mechanical characteristics of your footwear goods against Acceptable Quality Limits (AQL). When you partner with Veriquality, you can have full confidence in our objective findings, quick turnaround times, and competitive pricing.

We also supports shoes/footwear customers through our factory audit services to assess manufacturers’ portfolio, manufacturing facilities and capabilities, compliance to standards and regulations.

How do we perform a Footwear Inspection?

Appearance & Finish: check for scratch/abrasion, poor shaping, cracks, tears, glue stain, chalk mark, bubbling, sloppy stitching, needle hole, etc.
Material Quality: check for impurities in sole material, wrong grain line, uneven texture, different sole thickness, fading, discoloration, wrinkles, etc.
Construction: check for deformation, misalignment, weak cementing, lasting off center, hi-low quarter, asymmetric toe/vamp/counter, fusing bubbles, glue line too high, toe spring too high, incomplete interlining, etc.
Sole integrity: cracks, separations, unevenness, wavy outsole, crooked positioning of outsole, rough edge of EVA outsole
Comfort and Fit: inaccurate sizing, rough spots or discomfort-causing elements
Hardware and Accessories:  missing/insecurely fastened bows, upside down label/print, eyelets improperly spaced, rusted/faded/scratched hardware, slanted Velcro, etc.
Labels & Hangtags: missing or wrong label/hangtag, logo patch or label insecurely or reversely stitched, printing faults, etc.
Packaging: wet/broken boxes, mixed-up packing, wrong assortment, missing silica gel, bulky/shrink cartons, etc.

Main tests performed during a footwear inspection

  • Sole bonding, seat piece, and sockliner adhesion
  • Heel and outsole flexibility
  • Heel attachment strength
  • Pull tests
  • Symmetry check
  • Color shading
  • Colorfastness check (Rub test)
  • Odor test
  • Fasteners fatigue and zip quality test
  • Size fitting test
  • Weight test
  • Care labeling
  • Barcode scanning test
  • Mold contamination prevention
  • Metal contamination prevention
  • Adhesive check (logos, printings, markings fastness)
  • Waterproof test

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Asia

   • China
   • Bangladesh
   • Cambodia
   • India
   • Indonesia
   • Malaysia
   • Myanmar
   • Pakistan
   • Phillipines
   • Thailand
   • Taiwan, China
   • Vietnam

Europe

   • Turkey
   • Poland
   • Italy

Pricing

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FOOTWEAR QUALITY CONTROL APPROACH

Our footwear expertise will help your brand ensure the quality and safety of every type of footwear, including:

  • Boots
  • Shoes
  • Sandals
  • Slippers
  • Ice Skates
  • Flip-flops
  • Ballet Flats
  • Work Shoes
  • Loafers
  • Sport Shoes
  • Sneakers
  • Swim Fins
  • Espadrilles
  • Ballerina Shoes

SHOES & FOOTWEAR LAB TESTING

Ensure your footwear meets consumer safety standards and regulatory requirements of your target market before shipment. Our laboratory tests are tailored to your specific footwear testing needs. The most common laboratory tests for footwear include:

  • Harmful substances
  • Fiber identification
  • Banned azo colorants
  • Colorfastness check (CF to light, ozone, burnt gas fumes, phenolic yellowing perspiration, water, bleach)
  • North America chemical testing
  • Weather testing
  • Corrosion
  • Slip resistance
  • Sole wearing resistance
  • Sole abrasion testing
  • Velcro testing
  • CPSIA testing
  • REACH testing
  • Antibacterial and antimicrobial testing
  • Formaldehyde testing
  • Chromium (VI) testing
  • Pentachlorophenol (PCP) testing
  • Dimethylfumarate testing
  • Shedding propensity
  • Stitching reinforcement strength
  • Shoe lace strength and durability

KEY BENEFITS

Assure

compliance with worldwide regulations and standards

Minimize

the risk of recalls, returns and complaints

Enhance

risk management and brand protection

Boost

product sales and customer loyalty

Global Coverage, Local Knowledge

With over 300+ trained and qualified inspectors and auditors across 13 countries and regions; we guarantee to be at any factory within 48 hours.  Each inspector and auditor is native to the area in which they work, with an unparalleled expertise in local business practices.

  • China
  • Bangladesh
  • India
  • Philippines
  • Cambodia
  • Vietnam
  • Pakistan
  • Indonesia
  • Myanmar
  • Taiwan
  • Malaysia
  • Indonesia
  • Turkey
  • Thailand

INDUSTRIES WE SERVE

Ready to Improve Quality

We look forward to providing a complete solution to your supply chain needs with Quality, Value, and Integrity.

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LET’S TALK ABOUT QUALITY

Contact Veriquality to secure your imports from Asia with Product Inspection, Factory Audit and Product Testing services, Click to check our QC Services Coverage.

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