Ben Harvey offers a wide range of services to the textiles and clothing sector of the soft lines and Hardlines industry.
By helping you comply with national and international regulatory requirements, including CPSIA (America’s Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act 2008), we ensure the quality, safety, and sustainability of your products.
Since consumers are constantly in close contact with textiles and clothing, the need for safety and quality is paramount. Thanks to our network and expertise, we can help you satisfy such demands – plus others, including minimal environmental impact (e.g. compliance with REACH, the European Union’s regulation covering the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and restriction of Chemicals) – wherever you and your suppliers are based.
Our services in the textiles Soft lines and Hardlines sector include:
- Social Compliance Audits and certification
- Factory Capability and Capacity Audit (FCCA)
- During Production Check (Du-pro)
- Final Random Inspection (F.R.I)
- Sample Pickup
- Loading Supervision
Ben Harvey tailored solutions enable retailers, brands and manufacturers of textile products, apparel, and home textiles to ensure the safety, quality and performance of their products with precision, resulting in increased speed to market.
Ben Harvey performs textile Inspections on items ranging from fabric samples to finished products, including active wear, apparel for children and adults (pajamas, sweaters, jeans, outerwear), fashion accessories (scarves, belts) and soft home furnishings (bedding, curtains, Towels). We help our customers go beyond regulatory requirements to consistently meet consumer demand for high quality, minimize reputational risk, reduce environmental impacts and protect the interests of retailers, brands, textile manufacturers and consumer safety.
We offer textile and apparel inspection services per Acceptance Quality Limit (AQL), pre-, during and post-production to assure product quality by identifying defects and deviations, checking workmanship, verifying safety properties and loading paperwork. In addition, Ben Harvey textile certification services help retailers demonstrate due diligence through supplier certification.
Ben Harvey also supports textile and apparel customers through our textile auditing services to assess manufacturing facilities. Textile and apparel auditing is an integral step to verify manufacturers’ portfolio and capabilities, compliance to standards and regulations.
Ben Harvey textile and apparel industry services help retailers, brands and manufacturers uphold quality and safety while ensuring consumer confidence and brand loyalty.
In addition to Inspections and auditing for Textiles & Apparel, Ben Harvey helps clients build, maintain, and protect their brands through supply chain assurance and advisory services that go above and beyond regulatory compliance.
Ben Harvey comprehensive textile and apparel assurance, inspection and certification services help you deliver the highest-quality products to market with speed and precision.
- Critical Defects – hazardous or unsafe conditions or non-compliance with regulations, include sharp points or edges, stray needles left in the garment, loose studs or missing suffocation warning labels
- Major Defects – overall product failure or reduced usability of the product that prevents it from being placed on the market, can include open seams, holes or broken stitches
- Minor Defects – unlikely to reduce product usability, includes items such as loose threads
During textile and apparel inspections, Ben Harvey conducts the following:
- Fabric Check – assesses weight, print quality, defects, hand feel to standards
- Garment Labeling – to ensure label contains all required information, including registered identification number (RN), country of origin, fabric content/care and attachment of label in the proper location
- Workmanship Assessment – evaluates stitching, construction, attachments and fasteners, embellishments, shading within a garment, pattern continuity/matching, tapes, and linings
The textile and apparel inspection procedure also ensures that fabric width, fabric length and fabric appearance (weaving quality, splices, and odors) comply with the relevant standards and regulations during the production process.
Prior to shipping, Ben Harvey textile and apparel inspectors review the packaging list to ensure it includes overall carton count and carton numbers, carton dimension and weight, shipping label, style or shade identification and corresponding counts in the carton and packing slip.
Once the carton is packed, Ben Harvey confirms the actual garment count, the carton is packed as specified, appropriate carton dimensions are displayed, poly bags are checked, hang tags are included to confirm SKU/price, barcodes are included and the garment shade identification is correct.
Ben Harvey also provides comprehensive Textile Auditing services that assess the quality, procedures, and systems of each facility, textile factories and mills.