UK
Intertek, a leading Total Quality Assurance provider, welcomed Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP to officially open the UK's largest one-stop textile testing laboratory.
Intertek has extensively renovated and expanded its 30-year old site in Leigh, near Manchester, to incorporate under one roof the UK's largest textile flammability laboratory, a new chemical laboratory, as well as upgraded textile testing capabilities.
Opening the site, Andy Burnham, MP for Leigh said: "I am proud to open this modern new facility which maintains a link with Leigh's past in textiles."
Rob van Dorp, chief executive, UK & Eire, Intertek said the one-stop testing facility will support UK international manufacturers and retailers with quality and performance assurance, testing, inspection, and certification services including flammability, fire analysis and chemical testing on a broad range of textile products including protective clothing, fashion apparel, children's clothes, curtains, duvets, pillows and sofa covers.
TEXTILE TESTING: Intertek's chief executive for the UK and Ireland Rob van Dorp, with Andy Burnham MP and Intertek technician Tom Higginbottom
