Manufacturing and Quality Control blog

The manufacturing of furniture for export in China has grown in leaps and bounds over the past 10 years. It's an integral part of the buying process to ensure that you inspect all furniture before paying.

A lot of people put in good money for high quality nursery furniture due to the fact that safety for babies or toddlers is one of the major concerns when talking about these types of furniture. Each nursery furniture piece is required to undergo a series of inspection that adheres to different quality control standards from ANSI, ASTM, BS, EN, ISO and BIFMA to ensure that strict safety standards have been met to the highest quality.

Sourcing bedroom furniture from China has proven to be a profitable formula for many retailers. Their biggest challenges, however, lie in ensuring quality and compliance to applicable standards that many Chinese furniture makers are not particularly familiar with.

Over the last 20 years sneakers have experienced some drastic design changes that offer consumers various styles, colours, textures, enhanced comfort and new quality materials. Manufacturers have been testing their sneakers using ASTM (American Standard Testing Materials) and SATRA (Shoe and Allied Trade Research Association) inspection and testing materials.

The use of different cast iron cookware pieces have been used for centuries and today we still see a lot of advocates using these types of cooking wares. A lot of people have used or are currently still using cast iron cookware because of its amazing capability to spread heat on an even level without requiring too much heat from the source.

Most kitchen appliances in homes and commercial establishments these days are noticeably made in China. These kitchen appliances should undergo various stages of inspection and quality control tests; namely: pre-production, production, and pre-shipment, to ensure that they are safe and would perform as intended. That said, at the present time Chinese manufacturing is often not completed at the same level as Western standards.

Although Glassware encompasses a variety of objects it is often used to define containers or objects used at home, particularly in the kitchen or dining area. Glassware is used every day to hold our drinks and food, display fruits and flowers, and as containers found in medical laboratories. This glass is generally molded, blown, cut or pressed depending on the use, style and design.

Not only do food blenders need to be safe in terms of function, they also need to be tested to ensure that the materials used inside are food-safe. Some of the standards that we take under consideration when developing testing protocols and inspection procedures for blenders include: