Softlines
Softlines quality control across apparel, footwear, textiles, bags, and home textiles. QIMA combines inspections, laboratory testing, audits, and certifications to help you check product quality and compliance throughout production.
Softlines quality control across apparel, footwear, textiles, bags, and home textiles. QIMA combines inspections, laboratory testing, audits, and certifications to help you check product quality and compliance throughout production.
Softlines quality control covers the inspections, tests, audits, and certifications used to check products such as apparel, footwear, bags, and home textiles.
QIMA supports quality checks across production, from dyeing and cutting through sewing, packaging, and shipment. The program can include product inspections, lab testing, supplier audits, and product certifications selected for the product and market.
This page explains our softlines quality control expertise, softlines testing and laboratory services, product categories, certifications, and related resources.
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QIMA’s softlines quality control services cover textile, leather, and related products. Select the relevant product area below to explore the available testing, inspection, and compliance services.
Underwear and intimate apparel
Headwear
Children's and baby garments
Plush goods
Home textiles
Leather goods
Garment accessories
Product issues can appear during material preparation, cutting, sewing, finishing, or packaging. QIMA inspections can be designed around your product specifications and production stages, with checks such as:
Broken needle checks
Fabric weight testing
Performance testing
Care labeling review
Measurement checks
Additional checks based on your product requirements
QIMA’s online platform lets you customize ready-made checklists to match your manufacturing requirements. Our inspectors use these checklists on-site to verify that your products meet your specifications.
Our softline inspectors and auditors undergo monthly online and hands-on training to stay on top of the complex and ever-changing international regulations.
Testing programs can also be tailored to specific softlines products, including reusable fabric face masks. Depending on the product and target market, checks may include fiber content, textile flammability, packaging and labeling, heavy metals, azo dyes, and optional performance requirements such as dimensions, colorfastness, strength of attachments, and appearance after washing.
Softlines testing checks whether textile, apparel, footwear, and related products meet the safety, chemical, physical, performance, and labeling requirements relevant to the target market. QIMA labs test against national and international standards, with programs selected according to the product, materials, market, and customer requirements.
Common softlines laboratory testing services include:
Harmful substances
Banned AZO colorants
Formaldehyde testing
Pentachlorophenol (PCP) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) testing
Chromium (VI) testing
Allergenic and carcinogenic disperse dye testing
Fiber identification
Colorfastness
Fitness-for-use
GB 18401
GB 31701
Packaging and labeling requirements relevant to the target market
QIMA offers certification, as well as in-house quality and test marks for selected softlines products and programs. The relevant certification route depends on the product, target market, applicable requirements, and the scope confirmed for the specific program.
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Global coverage: QIMA operates in over 100 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America.
Flexible programs: Customize inspection, testing, and reporting programs around your products and production requirements.
Risk-based quality control: Use analytical data to identify and address quality and safety issues in the supply chain.
Accredited services: QIMA is accredited to major inspection, audit, and testing schemes.
Digital visibility: Use a custom dashboard to review trends and support quality decisions.
Dedicated support: Work with a dedicated account manager and 24-hour customer support.
Customer satisfaction: QIMA is ranked number one in the industry for customer satisfaction based on independent Net Promoter Score measurement.
Softlines quality control can include product inspections, laboratory testing, supplier audits, certification, and production-stage checks. The program is selected according to the product, materials, production process, target market, and customer specifications.
QIMA’s softlines expertise covers garments and apparel, footwear, textiles and fabric, underwear, bags and luggage, headwear, children’s and baby garments, plush goods, home textiles, leather goods, and garment accessories.
Softlines laboratory testing can cover harmful substances, restricted chemicals, flammability, fiber identification, colorfastness, fitness-for-use, market requirements, and packaging or labeling requirements.
Yes. QIMA testing programs can be selected according to the requirements relevant to the product’s destination market, including national and international standards listed in the testing program.
Testing and inspections can take place at different stages of the product lifecycle, including pre-production, production, pre-shipment, and after-market review. The appropriate timing depends on the product and quality program.
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