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Through standardized testing and evaluations ITTS can service many different industries. Offering ASTM, AATCC, ISO, BS EN standardized testing and others.

Many companies today require researching a new product or system through non-standard test protocols or analysis, and we have that background. Our experience with customized testing, product development testing, along with innovative test design, has been a major service we offer to clients worldwide. Since 1970, Independent Textile Testing Service, Inc. (ITTS) has proven itself time and time again to be an unbiased and accurate laboratory for research purposes.

Comprehensive Evaluations

Test (Standard + Method) Description
3M Oil and Water Repellency
AATCC 16.3 Colorfastness to light
AATCC 20 Fiber Analysis Qualatative
AATCC 20a Yarn Extractable Matter
AATCC 23 Colorfastness to Burnt Gas Fumes
AATCC 107 Colorfastness to Water
AATCC 109 Colorfastness to Ozone (per cycle)
AATCC 129 Colorfastness to Ozone
AATCC 134 Static Propensity
AATCC 134 Static Propensity (washed per GSA requirements)
AATCC 137 Rug Back Staining on Vinyl Tile
AATCC 138 Colorfastness to Shampoo
AATCC 164 Colorfastness to Nitrous Oxide 
AATCC 165 Colorfastness to Crocking
AATCC 171 Carpet Hot Water Extraction 
AATCC 175 Restistance to Staining (GSA Abraded Method)
AATCC 175 Resistance to Staining
AATCC 196 Colorfastness to Sodium Hypochlorite of Floor Covering
AATCC 205 Carpet: Liquid Penetration by Spillage
ASTM C1028 Static Coefficient of Friction
ASTM D1335 Tuft Bind
ASTM D1423 Yarn Twist per Inch
ASTM D1667 Cushion Compression Set
ASTM D1682 Breaking Strength
ASTM D2240 Shore A Durometer Hardness
ASTM D2256 Breaking Strength and Elongation
ASTM D2257 Extractable Matter
ASTM D2646 Breaking strength
ASTM D2859 Pill Test CPSC FF-1-70
ASTM D2859 Pill Test CPSC FF-2-70
ASTM D3389 Taber Abrasion 
ASTM D3574 Ball Rebound
ASTM D3574 Cushion Compression Force Deflection
ASTM D3574 Cushion Compression Set
ASTM D3574 Cushion density (includes weight & thickness)
ASTM D3574 Cushion Elongation
ASTM D3574 Cushion Indentation Force Deflection
ASTM D3574 Cushion Tensile Strength
ASTM D3574 Cushion thickness
ASTM D3574 Cushion weight
ASTM D3576 Cushion Compression Resistance
ASTM D3597 Wyzenbeek 
ASTM D3676 Accelerated Aging
ASTM D3676 Cushion Compression Set
ASTM D3676 Cushion density (includes weight)
ASTM D3676 Cushion thickness
ASTM D3676 Cushion weight
ASTM D3884 Taber Abrasion 1000 cycle weight loss
ASTM D3884 Taber Abrasion End Point 
ASTM D3936 Delamination
ASTM D4060 Abrasion Resistance
ASTM D4157 Wyzenbeek Abrasion
ASTM D5034 Breaking Strength and Elongation
ASTM D5035 Breaking Strength
ASTM D5252 Hexapod (4,000 and 12,000 cycles)
ASTM D5417 Vetterman Drum (5,000 and 22,000 cycles)
ASTM D5793 Gauge/pitch
ASTM D5793 Stitches/rows per inch
ASTM D5823 Tuft height
ASTM D5848 Pile weight & construction battery (wt,ht,st,ga,density)
ASTM D5848 Pile weight (action bac)
ASTM D5848 Pile weight (tile, cushion, unitary)
ASTM D5848 Total weight (without pile weight)
ASTM D629 Fiber blend (per fiber)
ASTM D6540 Accelerated Soiling
ASTM D6859 Pile thickness
ASTM D6859 Total thickness
ASTM D6962 Castor Chair (25,000 cycles)
ASTM D7267 Edge Ravel
ASTM D7570 Dimensional Stability
ASTM E648 Flooring Radiant Panel
ASTM E662 Smoke Density (flaming and non-flaming / 6 specimens total)
ASTM E662 Smoke Density (flaming or non-flaming only / 3 specimens total)
ASTM F386 Overall Thickness
ASTM F410 Wear Layer Thickness
ASTM F510 Taber Abrasion
ASTM F511 Qulity of Cut
ASTM F925 Resistance to Chemicals
ASTM F970 Static Load Resistance 
ASTM F1066 Vinyl Composition Floor Tile Complete Battery
ASTM F1303 Sheet Vinyl Complete Battery
ASTM F1304 Deflection
ASTM F1344 Rubber Floor Tile Complete Battery
ASTM Flexibility
ASTM F150 Electrical Resistance
ASTM F1514 Resistance to Heat
ASTM F1515 Resistance to Light (300 AFU's)
ASTM F1700 Vinyl Floor Tile Complete Battery
ASTM F1913 Sheet Vinyl Complete Battery
ASTM F1914 Residual Indentation (To ASTM F 1066 Spec)
ASTM F1914 Residual Indentation (To ASTM F 1303 Spec)
ASTM F1914 Residual Indentation (To ASTM F 1700 Spec)
ASTM F1914 Residual Indentation (To ASTM F 1913 Spec)
ASTM F2055 Size, Tolerance
ASTM F2055 Squareness
ASTM F2199 Dimensional Stability
ASTM F2421 Dimensions for Planks
ASTM F2753 Dynamic Rolling Load
ASTM F3261 Complete Battery
BS 8493 Light Reflectance
BS EN 13329 Abrasion Resistance
BS EN 15468 Abrasion Resistance
BS EN 16094 Micro-scratch
BS EN 1815 Static
BS EN 425 Castor Chair
CGSB 27.6 Canadian Flammability Standard
CPSC FF 1-70 Flammabillity
CPSC FF 2-70 Flammabillity
DDD C-0095a Wet shrinkage
EN 1815 Static Propensity
EN 660-2 Abrasion
ESD 7.1 Surface Resistivity
ESD 7.1 Volume Resistivity
FHA HUD Attached Cushion Physical
FHA HUD Carpet Colorfastness (per color)
FHA HUD Carpet Cushion Physical (if type H or I 150.00)
FHA HUD Carpet Physical with one color
FHA HUD Carpet Physical with one color multilevel pile 
FHA HUD Carpet Physical with one color (vinyl or cushion back)
FVMSS 302 Horizontal Flammability
ISO 1421 Tensile and Elongation
ISO 1763 Tufts per Square Meter
ISO 1765 Thickness
ISO 2286 Thickness
ISO 2551 Dimensional stability
ISO 3416 Static Loading
ISO 4918 Castor Chair
ISO 4919 Tuft Bind
ISO 6356 Static
ISO 8543 Mass (Total)
ISO 8543 Mass
ISO 10965 Electrical Resistance
ISO 23342 Dimensions
ISO 23997 Mass per Unit Area
ISO 23999 Dimensional Stability (includes curl)
ISO 24336 Thickness Swelling
ISO 24337 Squareness
ISO 24337 Dimensions (length)
ISO 24337 Dimensions (width)
ISO 24337 Flatness
ISO 24337 Ledging
ISO 24337 Openings
ISO 24339 Dimensional Stability
ISO 24340 Wear Layer Thickness
ISO 24343 Residual Indentation
ISO 24344 Flexibility
ISO 24345 Peel Resistance
ISO 24346 Thickness
ISO 26987 Resistance to Staining
ITTS 005 Unrecovered Extension (British method)
ITTS 104 AACHEN dimensional stability
ITTS 105 Moisture Impact Penetration
ITTS 110 Static Bleed
ITTS 112 DuPont Spot Bleed (5 day test)
ITTS 113 Latex Solids
ITTS 114 Latex Filler Load Analysis (double ash
ITTS 124 Spectrophotometric Analysis for Color
ITTS 125 Carpet Spot Cleaning
ITTS 126 Carpet Odor Evaluation
ITTS 127 Carpet Cleaning for Cleanability Rating
ITTS 132a Latex bundle penetration
ITTS 132b Latex bundle wrap
ITTS 132c Bundle wrap & penetration
ITTS 205 Roll Chair Testing (10,000 cycles)
ITTS 205 Roll Chair Testing (25,000 cycles)
ITTS 205 Roll Chair Testing (50,000 cycles)
ITTS 206 Solids content
ITTS 207 Yarn Denier
ITTS 208 Yarn Denier per Filament
ITTS 209 Yarn Tensile Strength
ITTS 210 Yarn Tenacity
ITTS 211 Yarn Elongation
ITTS 212 Yarn Microscopic Cross Section
ITTS 213 Yarn Melting Point
ITTS 214 Yarn Mositure Content
ITTS 215 Yarn Ply
ITTS 216 Yarn Fiber Solubility
ITTS 219 Yarn Fiber Blend
ITTS 220 Yarn Staple Length
ITTS 305 Loop pile run resistance
ITTS 400 Pile height (penetrator gauge)
ITTS 401 Carpet pile density (includes pile weight)
ITTS 402 Carpet weight density (includes pile weight)
ITTS 404 Shorn pile weight (with pile weight)
ITTS 404 Shorn pile weight (without pile weight)
ITTS 405 Latex filler load
ITTS 408 DuPont Pilling and Fuzzing
ITTS 411 Carpet Stain Resistance (10 stains)
ITTS 411 Carpet Stain Resistance (15 stains)
ITTS 412 Compression and Recovery
ITTS 413 Dynamic Crush
ITTS 414 Velcro Fuzzing
NFPA 56A Static Decay
NFPA 99 Surface and Volume Resistivity/IBM-Burroughs
NFPA 99 Surface (Burroughs) or Volume (IBM) only