SGS Establishes Central Asia’s Only ISO 17025 Accredited Laboratory for Cotton Yarn Testing

Rutherford, NJ, December 09, 2016 --(PR.com)-- SGS’s laboratory in Tashkent has achieved ISO 17025 accreditation, making it the only accredited cotton yarn testing facility in Central Asia. ISO 17025 is the benchmark standard for technical competency, demonstrating rigorous testing standards and a meticulous laboratory management system.

As the only ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory in Central Asia, the facility will assist Uzbekistan’s growing cotton export industry by independently demonstrating quality and consistency, thereby adding value to their finished products. This continued investment in Tashkent, reinforces SGS’s commitment to delivering high quality testing facilities to Uzbekistan’s yarn industry.

Equipped with the Uster Tester 5 and integrated full High Volume Instrument Testing for raw cotton, the laboratory will be able to serve the whole cotton yarn industry. Yarn is the transitional point in the manufacture of fabric, following raw material. Importers of Uzbekistan’s cotton will want to be assured of its quality. In order to do this, SGS in Tashkent can conduct tests on:

· Yarn twist
· Linear density
· Yarn strength
· Yarn elongation
· Yarn evenness
· Yarn hairiness

Uzbekistan currently produces around three million tons of raw cotton and 0.9 million tons of cotton fiber a year. It is the sixth largest producer of cotton in the world and the fourth largest exporter of cotton fiber. Maintaining this growth will require Uzbekistan’s cotton fiber producers to demonstrate the quality and consistency of their product to international importers – this will mean third party independent testing using globally recognized standards.

As Central Asia’s only ISO 17025 accredited facility for cotton yarn testing, SGS in Tashkent is ideally positioned to support Uzbekistan’s cotton industry by providing integrated high-volume instrument testing for raw cotton to help both the export market and the domestic spinning mill industry.

For further information contact:

Olga Surovtseva
Manager
SGS Agriculture Food Life
Email: olga.surovtseva@sgs.com

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