Quick answer. Name the test standards your buyers use before choosing any instrument, then budget for condition, calibrate and consume. Nearly every test in FTE-0001 to FTE-0022 exists in several versions that differ in specimen size, pre-treatment, cycles and how results are expressed, and an instrument built to a version your customer does not recognise produces reports they will not accept. Then cost what quotations usually leave out: conditioning, because fabric properties change with humidity; reference materials such as grey scales and pilling standards; and consumables, which on some instruments outrun the purchase price within a few years.
Twenty-two instruments, coded FTE-0001 to FTE-0022, for a textile testing laboratory. They fall into five groups: mechanical and surface properties - pilling, Martindale abrasion and pilling, stiffness, crease recovery, drape, thickness, snap pull-out strength, flat loop flexibility and a traverse thread counter; permeability and water behaviour - air permeability, water vapour permeability, a water penetration tester for very low ranges and a Bundesmann rain simulation apparatus; colour fastness - a colour matching cabinet, a launderometer and a perspirometer; sample preparation and environment - a conditioning chamber, a Beasley balance and a beaker dyeing machine; and exposure and coated-fabric work - an exposure rack, a coating adhesion tester for vinyl coated fabric and a De Mattia flex tester.
If you are equipping a laboratory whose reports go to a customer, specify the standard before the instrument. Nearly every test here exists in several national and international versions, and the versions differ in specimen size, pre-treatment, number of cycles and how the result is expressed. Tell us which standard your buyers name - and if your customers are in different markets, tell us all of them - because an instrument built to a standard your customer does not recognise cannot produce a report they will accept, however good the instrument is.
| Group | Codes | What to settle first |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical and surface | FTE-0004, FTE-0006, FTE-0007, FTE-0008, FTE-0011, FTE-0012, FTE-0013, FTE-0016, FTE-0020 | Which standard, specimen size, number of stations and the abradant or reference material specified |
| Permeability and water | FTE-0001, FTE-0002, FTE-0017, FTE-0018 | Test area and pressure differential; which water vapour method; water supply, drain and water hardness |
| Colour fastness | FTE-0009, FTE-0010, FTE-0015 | Which illuminants; lamp hours and replacement; grey scales; reference detergent availability locally |
| Environment and preparation | FTE-0003, FTE-0005, FTE-0014 | The standard atmosphere and conditioning time; chamber capacity; for the dyeing machine, chemicals and effluent |
| Coated fabric and exposure | FTE-0019, FTE-0021, FTE-0022 | Quote alongside the coated fabric listing, which holds only four products |
Textile testing differs from most mechanical testing in three ways, and all three cost money that is routinely left out of a quotation.
Condition. Textile properties are not fixed. Strength, extension, stiffness and mass per unit area all change with the moisture the fibre holds, and that changes with the air around it. This is why the test standards specify a standard atmosphere and a conditioning period before testing - commonly twenty degrees Celsius and sixty-five per cent relative humidity, with a tropical alternative near twenty-seven degrees; check the figure in the standard you work to. The practical consequence is blunt: a result measured on an unconditioned specimen is not comparable with anything, including your own result from last week. The conditioning chamber, FTE-0014, is therefore not an accessory to this range; it is the condition under which the rest of it produces usable numbers. If the budget will not stretch to everything at once, buy the conditioning chamber and fewer instruments rather than the reverse.
Calibrate. Several instruments here are only meaningful against a reference material rather than against a dial - grey scales for assessing colour change and staining, photographic or physical pilling standards for rating a pilled specimen, standard abradant fabric and felt for the Martindale, and reference fabrics for the launderometer. Ask which reference materials each instrument needs, who supplies them, what they cost and how often they must be replaced, because a worn grey scale or a faded photographic standard moves every rating a laboratory issues, quietly and in one direction.
Consume. The running cost of a textile laboratory is consumables, not electricity. On this range that means abradant cloth, felts and foam for the abrasion and pilling testers; reference detergent and steel balls for the launderometer; perspiration reagents made to the standard recipe; lamps for the colour matching cabinet; and specimen cutting dies that blunt. Ask for a one-year consumable list with prices and lead times for each instrument before you compare machine prices; on some of these instruments the consumables outrun the purchase price within a few years.
Colour assessment is where a textile laboratory most often produces numbers it should not stand behind, and the cause is almost always the light.
A colour matching cabinet is a set of specified illuminants in a controlled enclosure - typically daylight plus a store lighting source and a filament source, so that metamerism can be seen. Two questions decide whether it works. Which illuminants does it contain, and do they match the ones your customer specifies? And how are lamp hours logged and when are lamps replaced? Fluorescent and filament lamps shift in output and colour as they age, and a cabinet with lamps past their rated hours produces assessments that drift away from everyone else. Ask whether the cabinet has an hour meter, what the replacement interval is and what a set of lamps costs.
Then the human part: a visual assessment needs a trained observer, a neutral grey surround, a fixed viewing geometry and ideally two assessors. If your reports need numbers rather than ratings, a spectrophotometer is the instrument for that, and colour measurement instruments are listed in the plastic testing equipment range. For the launderometer and perspirometer, ask about temperature control and uniformity between pots, and about the availability of reference detergent in your country - it is a specified material and it is not always easy to buy locally.
FTE-0008 is a combined abrasion and pilling tester, FTE-0004 a dedicated pilling tester. Three things decide whether a specification is comparable with your customer's: the number of test stations, since throughput is stations multiplied by cycle time and a single-station machine is a bottleneck in a commercial laboratory; the cycle counter and whether it stops automatically at a set count; and the specified abradant, felt and foam, which are the consumables that govern the result. Ask also how specimens are cut and mounted, because a specimen cut slightly oversize abrades at its edge rather than its face and the rating is then wrong in a way that is hard to spot.
Pilling ratings are assigned by comparison with standard photographs or replicas under controlled light, which brings the colour section above back into play: pilling assessment under ordinary room lighting is not an assessment.
Four instruments cover the passage of air and water. For the air permeability tester, ask the test area, the pressure differential it works at and whether that matches your standard, since both vary between standards. For water vapour permeability, ask which method the instrument implements, because the upright cup, inverted cup and desiccant methods are not interchangeable and give different numbers for the same fabric.
For the Bundesmann rain tester and the water penetration tester, the practical issue is water. Ask what water quality the instrument needs and whether a supply and drain are required at the position: hard water scales spray nozzles, and a scaled nozzle changes the droplet pattern, which is the whole experiment. Ask also about the absorbent paper, blotting and specimen holders these methods use, and whether the test is run at a controlled temperature.
We would rather point these out than have you find them after ordering. The exposure rack, the coating adhesion tester for vinyl coated fabric and the De Mattia flex tester are coated-fabric instruments, and the dedicated coated fabric testing equipment listing holds only four products - so if coated fabrics are your subject, ask for both listings to be quoted together rather than choosing between them. An exposure rack appears in each of the two listings under the same name. And the beaker dyeing machine, FTE-0003, is a laboratory dyeing machine rather than a testing instrument: it is here because a dye house uses it alongside testing, but it brings dyes, auxiliaries and effluent with it, so ask about chemical supply and drainage before it is installed.
As a general rule on this part of the catalogue: quote the code and the full product name together, and ask for both to be confirmed on the proforma invoice. Several instruments in neighbouring listings share names, and a code alone is not enough to identify what will be shipped.
If the laboratory is to be accredited rather than simply useful, the instrument list is the smaller half of the task. Accreditation to the international standard for testing laboratories requires documented methods, demonstrated competence, traceable calibration of each instrument on a stated interval, recorded environmental conditions and participation in inter-laboratory comparison where it exists. When you enquire, tell us that accreditation is the aim and ask us, instrument by instrument, what calibration certificate is supplied, what it is traceable to, which parameters are certified, and what a local recalibration costs. For any certification we state for an instrument, contact us for the latest copies of the relevant certificates before you rely on it in a tender or an accreditation file.
The standard and version each instrument is built to, named explicitly; test area, specimen size and specimen preparation requirement; number of stations and cycle time where relevant; the reference materials and consumables each instrument needs, with one-year prices and lead times; calibration certificate, traceability and recalibration interval; services required at the position - power, water, drain, compressed air, extraction; bench or floor mounting, mass and footprint; nominal voltage, frequency and plug pattern; software, where an instrument is computerised, with its licence terms and whether the instrument can be read manually; and the warranty, commissioning and local service position.
Related ranges in this group: leather testing equipment, footwear testing equipment, paper and packaging testing equipment, rubber testing equipment, and for tensile strength on fabric and yarn, tensile testing machines and universal testing machines. The full set is listed under raw products testing. For a quotation, tell us the destination country, the standards your customers name, your expected sample throughput and the syllabus or tender specification you are working to.
Because textile properties are not fixed. Strength, extension, stiffness and mass per unit area all change with the moisture the fibre holds, and that follows the surrounding air. Test standards therefore specify a standard atmosphere and a conditioning period, commonly 20 deg C and 65 per cent relative humidity, with a tropical alternative near 27 deg C; check the figure in the standard you use. A result measured on an unconditioned specimen is not comparable with anything, including your own result from last week. If the budget is tight, buy the conditioning chamber and fewer instruments rather than the reverse.
More than the machine list suggests. Several instruments are only meaningful against a reference: grey scales for colour change and staining, photographic or physical pilling standards, standard abradant fabric and felt for the Martindale, and reference fabrics, reference detergent and steel balls for the launderometer. Add perspiration reagents made to the standard recipe, lamps for the colour matching cabinet and cutting dies that blunt. A worn grey scale or faded pilling photograph moves every rating a laboratory issues, quietly and in one direction. Ask for a one-year consumable list with lead times for each instrument before comparing machines.
Control the light and the observer. A colour matching cabinet holds specified illuminants, typically daylight, a store lighting source and a filament source so metamerism can be seen; check they match the illuminants your customer specifies. Lamps shift in output and colour as they age, so ask whether the cabinet has an hour meter and what the replacement interval is. A visual assessment also needs a trained observer, a neutral grey surround, a fixed viewing geometry and ideally two assessors. For the launderometer and perspirometer, ask about temperature uniformity between pots and whether reference detergent can be bought locally.
FTE-0008 is a combined Martindale abrasion and pilling tester and FTE-0004 a dedicated pilling tester. Compare three things. The number of test stations, since throughput is stations multiplied by cycle time and a single-station machine is a bottleneck in a commercial laboratory. The cycle counter, and whether it stops automatically at a set count. And the specified abradant, felt and foam, which govern the result. Ask how specimens are cut and mounted, because an oversize specimen abrades at its edge rather than its face. Pilling is rated against standard photographs under controlled light, not ordinary room lighting.
Method details. For the air permeability tester, ask the test area and pressure differential, since both vary between standards and must match yours. For water vapour permeability, ask which method the instrument implements, because the upright cup, inverted cup and desiccant methods give different numbers for the same fabric. For the Bundesmann rain tester and the water penetration tester, the issue is water: ask what water quality is needed and whether a supply and drain are required, because hard water scales spray nozzles and a scaled nozzle changes the droplet pattern. Ask also about blotting materials and specimen holders.
Four. The exposure rack, the coating adhesion tester for vinyl coated fabric and the De Mattia flex tester are coated-fabric instruments, and the coated fabric testing listing holds only four products, so if coated fabrics are your subject, ask for both listings to be quoted together. The exposure rack appears in both listings under the same name. The beaker dyeing machine FTE-0003 is a laboratory dyeing machine rather than a testing instrument, and it brings dyes, auxiliaries and effluent, so ask about chemical supply and drainage first. Quote code and full name together, because neighbouring listings share names.
Ray Export is a manufacturer and exporter of laboratory, scientific and educational equipment based at Plot No. 449, HSIIDC Industrial Area, Saha, Ambala, Haryana 133104, India. Enquiries: [email protected], +91-9817319615.
Written by Palak Mall, Senior Content Writer. Technically reviewed by Arvind Kumar, Lab Equipment Specialist, 12+ years in laboratory and testing instrumentation. Last updated: 17 October 2026.
Specifications for FTE-0001 to FTE-0022, including the standard and version each instrument is built to, test area, number of stations, reference materials and consumables, are confirmed in writing on the quotation. For calibration documents, including what each is traceable to, contact us for the latest copies of the relevant certificates. No price is quoted on this page. Listing note: three coated-fabric instruments, an exposure rack, a coating adhesion tester for vinyl coated fabric and a De Mattia flex tester, are filed here; the exposure rack appears in both this and the coated fabric listing under the same name; and the beaker dyeing machine FTE-0003 is a dyeing machine rather than a testing instrument.
The Crease Recovery Tester is intended to quantify wrinkle recuperation edge of textures. It comprises of a rotational round scale on which a spring write example cinch is settled on the construct plate in light of which the above game plan is mounted. The test example is settled on a stacking strip provided with the gear. In the wake of collapsing the example on the wrinkling line set apart on the strip, the stacking strip with collapsed example is kept on an iron block under the dead heap of the stacking course of action for a predefined time. After that the example with the stacking strip is exchanged to the brace of the turning round scale, where it is held in way that the overlay lies in a level line on the hub of the roundabout scale. The roundabout scale with the clip is turned till the free appendage of the example ends up vertical which is judged by adjusting it to a vertical pointer. The wrinkle recuperation edge is straightforwardly perused on the round scale.
Specialized SPECIFICATIONS:
· Method for Determination of Wrinkle Recovery of textures (By Measurement of Crease Recovery Angle).
· Determination of Wrinkle Recovery of textures, Crease Recovery Angle Method.
· Wrinkle Recovery of Woolen Textile Fabrics utilizing the Vertical Strip Apparatus.
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Wrap meter comprises of a round example bolster, an electric light to radiate light, and an uncovering and creating course of action utilizing light delicate smelling salts paper to decided the territory secured by the shadow of the test example, and an electric light to uncover the alkali paper to decide the zone secured by the shadow of the test example. The round example bolster is made out thrown aluminum and is settled over an unmistakable acrylic sheet. The sheet is pivoted toward one side and can be lifted for putting the alkali paper for presentation. The paper is kept beneath the acrylic sheet on a strong surface so it is in close contact with the sheet when it is flat. The example holding and paper uncovering course of action is kept inside a sheet metal uncovering chamber. The electric light is fitted at the upper end of the chamber with the goal that light beams originating from it are blocked by the test example. The beams which are not caught fall on the paper and uncover it, along these lines giving a boundary amongst uncovered and unexposed zones. The chamber has a nearby fittings entryway. It has ventilation openings close to its base and best to keep it cool. A smelling salts vapor creating chamber in which the uncovered paper is kept for creating is given beneath the uncovering chamber. This load has a snug entryway and a course of action to keep ammonium hydroxide to make a reasonable environment for building up the print. The test example is kept over a welded wire work plateform to guarantee a uniform creating. The outside of the mechanical assembly is done in dim office of the chief naval officer dark manufactured polish to give it an erosion safe wrap up. A metal layout of 250 mm measurement have a focal gap for checking and cutting the test examples, an example squeezing plate, one hundred sheets of smelling salts process paper, and one jug of ammonium hydroxide are provided as standard embellishments.
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The solidness analyzer made of a level, smooth and low grating even metallic surface. These are two vertical straightforward plates on which the line are set apart at indicated point. There is a metallic scat, the base surface are connected to an elastic and the upper surface joined to a scat.
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The Conditioning Chamber made of cubical shape, the internal body of the chamber made of Stainless Steel, there is a Stainless Steel water tank at the base of the chamber, an inundated radiator is fitted to the tank for making Humidity. There are two wire work plate are likewise fitted to the chamber, the plate are removable, the test example are hold by the plate. There is a pivoted entryway on its front.
The external body is made of Mild Steel properly powder covered to give it an erosion safe long life.
There is a control board on which computerized Humidity Controller, a Digital Temperature and Switches for cooling, warming, stickiness and mains are mounted. The cooling is finished by Compressor and warming is finished by Heaters. The Temperature Sensor and Humidity Sensor are fitted inside the chamber.
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Per spirometer - Colorfastness of colored or printed textures against sweat is dictated by uncovering the texture test to the activity of both antacid and acidic reagents while in contact with undyed textures on the two sides. The test examples, held between two white contiguous textures, are set between plastic plates under a settled load inside a hot air broiler kept up at 37° C. The mechanical assembly utilized for this test is known as the per spirometer. and The Per spirometer comprises of a metallic stacking outline and an arrangement of acrylic plates which can be kept in the stacking outline. and The stacking outline comprises of two steel plates isolated from each other by four mellow steel poles. An arrangement of two gentle steel plates held together by methods for remove pieces and springs with a dead weight are given to apply a steady power on the test examples set between acrylic plates. and Technical Data Dimensions of test examples : 10 cm x 4 cm and Force on test examples : 5 kg and Dimensions of acrylic plates : 11.5 cm x 6.0 cm and Number of acrylic plates : Sixteen.
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Navigate Thread Counter - One of the most widely recognized measure of the nature of a texture is the quantity of strings per unit length in both the twist and weft bearings, or its picks and finishes. and Picks and closures of any texture are typically decided with the assistance of a conventional checking glass having a square or rectangular opening of determined size. Be that as it may, when a more noteworthy level of exactness in assurance of picks or closures is required, or the weave is too fine to be in any way checked with a normal tallying glass, this excluding is conveyed with the assistance of a Traverse Thread Counter. and In this device a voyaging magnifying lens is utilized for survey the weave of the texture under test. Openings of known widths are given to empower picks and closures per unit length to be resolved, both in metric and magnificent frameworks.
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Water Penetration Resistance - Very Low Rang - The capacity of covered textures to effectively oppose infiltration of water through their coatings is a vital rule for deciding their appropriateness for an assortment of uses. This assurance might be completed either by applying a steadily expanding pressure driven weight on the covered side and finding the weight at which the primary drop of water enters through the test example, or by applying a settled known water powered weight on the covered face for a predefined term of time and finding the time taken by the principal drop of water to infiltrate through. Contingent upon the last utilize the test example is to be put to, the above assurance might be completed either under a low weight or under a high weight. and In the low weight strategy, the test example is held over an open well having a round opening of 100 cm² region and the weight is either expanded at a predefined rate, or is kept steady at a predetermined esteem. common lab types of gear makers.
Water Vapor Permeability Tester - The water vapor porousness of texture is dictated by setting the test example over the open mouth of a test dish, which contains water and gathering put in a controlled climate. After a time of set up harmony of the water vapor weight inclination over the test example, progressive weightings of the gathered dish are made and the rate of water vapor penetration through the example is resolved. The water vapor porousness file is ascertained by communicating the water vapor penetrability of the test texture as a level of the water vapor porousness of a reference woven texture which is tried in a comparative way simultaneously and nearby the test example. and The Water Vapor Permeability Tester comprises of eight dishes with cover ringamp; example bolster and a turn table for pivoting the test dishes at a uniform speed with an implicit clock..
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Introduction Rack - Exposure rack for covered texture Various kinds of materials whether it is covered textures, or a polyvinyl chloride sheeting or protection and sheath of link encounter change in shading when presented to sunlight for adequate period as a result of the activity of sunshine on colors utilized. The seriousness of presentation in both time and force of light decides the degree of the adjustment in shading. The colorfastness is signified by the quantity of the colored fleece standard (gave by British Standards Institute) that has changed shading to an indistinguishable degree from the test example. It is communicated in the numerical rating for light speed. and The Exposure Rack comprises of an open bottomed wooden box fitted with a removable wooden edge conveying a wire screen, a wooden removable rack for supporting test pieces/fleece principles and a pivoted cover made of aluminum edge outline with Acrylic sheet settled on the same. The crate is fitted on a remain to keep the case in open with 45º tendency to the even. common lab types of gear producers.
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Level Loop Flexibility Tester - One of the courses for the assurance of adaptability of covered textures is with the assistance of level circle test. In this test, a rectangular portion of covered texture is set on a flat plane and a circle framed by superimposing the two closures, which are then held down with a steel bar. The stature of the circle so framed, which is a converse measure of the adaptability of the covered texture, is estimated to assess the level circle adaptability of the covered texture. and This technique isn't relevant for covered textures that are inclined to moving up or spiraling when cut upto bits of littler size. Nor is it appropriate for textures that are excessively unbending, making it impossible to make a circle. common lab supplies makers.
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