State of the art laboratory installed at knitting unit

05 May '08

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The lab consists of a testing facility to accommodate a capacity of over 90% of tests which is required for Warp Knitted fabrics.

Fabrics are tested for various technical properties; colour fastness, Stretch ability, GSM, and Dimensional stability. The quality laboratory technical team is committed to innovation, development and understanding of new technical properties where they target to achieve the accreditation certification of working with LACE, M&S, and Limited Brands.

The laboratory solution was supplied by SDL Atlas UK & USA, as well as ATLAS Germany for light fastness testing, with the DOGIEFA lab area consisting of a 27m2 conditioned room in 180 m2 lab working area. The entire lab was facilitated by Cassims International Ag. in Sri Lanka.

The addition of DOGIEFA to Sri Lanka's supply chain portfolio increases the competitiveness of the local industry, while its strategic location at MAS Fabric Park adds value with a two hour access to all major garment manufacturers catering to international markets.

Shums Cassim, Director of Cassims International said “We are honored and delighted to have supplied the state of the art laboratory at Dogi International's plant in Sri Lanka.

As a joint venture partner with MAS Holdings, the quality of the lab instrumentation at DOGI, and its reliability, together with after sales service and support, was always going to be important considerations in selecting the lab equipment.

The demand for increasingly value added fabrics and garments from Sri Lanka has necessitated quality oriented manufacturers to establish textile testing laboratories certifiable to international standards.

Increasingly, this quality approach is seen as one of the ways Sri Lanka can aim to compete with other Asian manufacturers of textiles and apparel”.

Cassims International, a solutions provider to the Sri Lankan textile industry, represents industry leading textile technology and machinery manufacturers.

In addition to complete laboratory solutions from SDL ATLAS, Cassims supplies a range of other weaving, knitting, dyeing & finishing solutions to leading textile manufacturers in Sri Lanka.

Cassims International