Testing

Quality control & Defect analysis

Testing represent the base of RICOTEST activity: tests are an essential instrument to estimate in objective way the characteristics and the performances of materials and products, in order to verify and to attest the technical correspondence to standards, market rules and prescriptions, to the aim to facilitate of the commercialization and to defend the image of the quality products.

Types of tests

RICOTEST can test to national, European and international standards (EN, ISO, DIN, BS, ASTM) and support the customers with the interpretation of results.

• Physical /mechanical
• Chemical
• Fatigue resistance
• Waterproofness & transpiration
• Heat and fire
• Impacts
• Cuts

Physical/mechnical analysis

For the determination of physical and mechanical properties of materials: tensile properties and elongation, tear strength, compression set, perforation, bursting strength, bond strength, …

Chemical Tests

To determine the content of harmful substances like chromium VI, AZO agents, PCP, nickel, cadmium, lead, DMF, …

Test of fatigue resistance

“We accelerate the time” by stressing the materials with repeated mechanical solicitations: flexings, abrasions, rubbings, tractions and lengthening, …

Tests of vapour/air/waterproofness

Check and verify the comfort of shoes and “technical apparel”: air permeability, water vapour absorption/desorption, dynamic waterproofness, water penetration and absorption, resistance to water coloumn, ...

Tests of heat and flame

Tests of thermal insulation and fire reaction of furnishing materials and apparel/footwear, in particular for those relatet to weldeing process and firefighting: flame behavior, heat transmission, material behavior to the contact with molded metals, …

Tests of impact strength

We test the resistance and the impact energy absorption properties of all those products that serve to protect the body from hits and impacts: toecaps for safety footwear, sports protectors for motorcycling, winter-sports, soccer and martial arts, helmets, ...

Cut

For the verification of the resistance to several types of cut in accordance with the reference standards and the intended use of the product: knife cut, hand held chain-saw cut, impact cut, dynamic cut.