This is our Technical Home Page where we have included links to the main pages concerned with technical matters. If you can't find what you are looking for, try the site map, this will cover all the pages in our site. If that doesn't help, contact the office, our contact page is here or e-mail us now.

A simple background to the main processing methods we use and the equipment employed to do it.

Testing & British Standards

These topics are covered on the same page and have links to all the main tests we conduct within the scope of UKAS accreditation.

A guide to the 1988 fire safety regulations.

Some lists of fibre compositions and their relationship to the requirements of fire safety legislation & regulations along with items that are best avoided when specifying fabrics which require flame retardancy.

A short list of the main technical terms used throughout the web site.

A full list of our UKAS accreditation schedule.

A description of the main fibre types used for fabric manufacture.

Some information about how and why textiles burn.

A Flash animation of the 'burning process'.

A list of the main groups of dyes and the fastness to fading imparted to fabrics dyed with them.