Testing

Emergency relief items used by humanitarian organisations in catastrophe-stricken areas (war, hunger, natural disasters, such as draught, floods, earthquakes, landslides ...) should meet the strictest requirements to save lives.

Centexbel is fully equipped to analyse these PPE and is a worldwide acknowledged expert in the evaluation of protective clothing against these infectious diseases.

Infective agents can be transmitted during surgical procedures in operating theatres and other medical settings in several ways. One of the important sources are the noses and mouths of the surgical team. When breathing, speaking, coughing or sneezing, a person releases smaller or larger amounts of droplets of secretions from the mucous membranes in the mouth and nose. Those droplets quickly evaporate and leave nuclei suspended in the air. Nuclei can subsequently spread through the air to a susceptible site such as an open operating wound or sterile equipment, or can be inhaled if dimensions

As a medical device, textiles used in operating theatres have to be conform with the requirements of the European Medical Devices Regualtion 2017/745

Rubber or plastics coated fabrics - Determination of resistance to combined shear flexing and rubbing

IR (infrared)-spectroscopy is a form of spectroscopy which is specifically active in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectra.

Hardness is defined as a material’s resistance to permanent indentation. It is one of the most measured parameters and often reported on technical data sheets of plastics and rubbers.

Flammability testing is one of the most important testing procedures within the textile industry because it has crucial safety implications in the event of a fire.

Determination of the energy that causes plastic film to fail under specified conditions of impact of a free-falling dart. This energy is expressed in terms of the weight (mass) of the missile falling from a specified height which would result in 50 % failure of specimens tested.

The impact protection on the back of the hand of protective gloves is tested according to EN 388:2016 that includes an impact resistance test in accordance with clause 6.9 of EN 13594.