We are offering our experience, design and quality control service according to our customer’s needs and specifications.
From the factory research and production set up until all legal steps of your production purchase and permanent quality control service, we offer you an important step to your correct shoe production and distribution under lower costs and higher profits.
We realize our own tests in our laboratories –testing not only footwear materials – from the upper material to the sole, including flexing resistance, tear strength, bursting strength, abrasion resistance, colour fastness/colour strain, buckles corrosion test ant etc., but also the whole shoes test, including heel attachment, sole bond strength and etc.
Our testing service in respect of different nations and international published methods are the following:
U.S.A
- American Society of Testing and Material (ASTM)
- Footwear Industries of America (FIA)
U.K
- British Standards (BS)
- SATRA
SPAIN
Asociación Española de Normalización y Certificación (AENOR), (UNE)
GERMANY
Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN)
OTHERS
International Standard Organization (ISO)
At time, testing can be conducted according to the specification of our client.
Our laboratories are on charge to control the requested standards during the sample development, pre – productions, productions and charge of merchandise.
During the pre-production and arrival of the materials from our suppliers, all materials will be re-tested again in order to confirm if the materials produced by our suppliers are made according our standards and the EU regulations. During the mass production process, we do analyze from each production day several made shoes, their bonding resistance and the bonding process applied by the workers.
Our technicians make always a complete global inspection of the product, minimizing the possible hidden defects and future claims, as the corresponding packing.
The advantages of our global service are:
- Risk reduction of reception of defective merchandise different from the confirmed samples.
- A surveyed quality, fulfilling the standards of European productions.
- Increase of the reputation of your product in the international market, good quality as sales promotion of your company.
- Reduction of travel expenses getting a permanent daily control.
On the same time, we are well introduced and connected in the Chinese retail market and started recently with the distribution of European brands through our partner companies, which are the owners of some of the biggest distributions channels in whole China.
Our branches are on charge of making continuous resourcings of good and reliable raw materials, which fulfil our international quality standards. Once our side has approved them, we introduce them into our production plants. We offer also to external raw material companies our technical support for introducing their products into other factories of our market, in case that they have been approved previously by our laboratories.
Lexelart opens you the international gates to other markets worldwide.
LEXELART co-operates with all its related companies for a proper and accurate introduction of the products into the international market. We contribute with technology, machinery and technical know how and commercial net work distribution. The reduction of any possible quality risk is being reduced by our technical controls in our own laboratories, and if necessary, we up date our production plants with new machineries and soft ware.
Our purpose is to reduce the risks of buying shoes abroad and base our efforts in introducing them in new international markets.
Our company disposes of its own laboratories where all related materials are being tested.
Our technical team reviews the first prototypes and recommend the necessary performance, quality, additional parameter required and performance measures with reference to the industry and market rating.
Design, Choice of materials and constructional faults can cause lower sales or decrease the reputation of your product. Sole adhesion failure and strap breakage can also result in injury to the wearer and must be controlled properly.
To check your product is safe or not, we offer following tests:
- Heel attachment
- Sole adhesion
- Peel strength of adhesive bonds
- Seam strength
- Tear strength
- Colour fastness/stain of upper materials, linings
- Friction resistance
- Flexing resistance
- Colour fastness to water and perspiration
- Tensile properties of plastics and rubbers
- Resistance of finish films on upper leather to peeling delamination
- Temperature resistance
- Abrasion resistance
- Strength of Buckle / Strap / Bow / Button / Trim / Ornament
- Eyelet / D-ring / Ski-hook / Slide fastener / Touch and Close (Velcro tape)
- Washability of footwear
- Determination of shoe size
During the whole pre-productions and reception of the shoe materials, our experts retest all values and quality standards of the final product, in order to insure that all used materials fulfil the requested regulations. On the same time, we test during the production periodically the sole adhesion and adhesive bonds strength for guaranteeing the right bonding of the shoes.
Our units produce the major kind of shoe constructions, like Moccasins, Cemented shoes, Stitchdown, Good-Year, Vulca, Strobel, California, Pumps, Sandals, high leg boots, hiking boots and Motocross Boots. Our size ranges include children, men and lady footwear.
Our stitching departments dispose of the very best and newest machine technology, daily quality control, metal sensors to avoid broken needles, making from each pair an exact replica of the confirmed sample. Our stitching departments are well organized and trained. The skills of our staff are permanently controlled and perfectly trained for making complicated stitched uppers, ornaments, high fashioned embroideries, transfers, laser printings, heat emboss, and stone adornments all of the best quality.
In all our departments, we do permanent control and test reports, which are being sent under request to our customers, so that in each moment the production status and quality can be checked and followed. A general control is permanently performed in all our plants, with daily reports with the updated information of how and when each of the orders is being produced.