Ensuring excellence:
Rekord’s rigorous quality testing

We use the centrifuge for GORE-TEX® testing: we put water inside the shoes liners and centrifuge them for 30 minutes to check for leaks, thus ensuring compliance with standards. We normally test four pairs every 30 minutes, for a total of about 24 pairs of shoes per day. Footwear with GORE-TEX® membranes are tested daily and, based on specific customer requirements, are also subjected to the Flex test, which simulates walking to determine the required flexural strength, which varies between 100,000 and 200,000 cycles.

Hydrolysis is used to accelerate the extreme conditions to which footwear may be subjected by simulating a six-hour stress test at 60°C and 95% humidity to ensure that there is no dislodging in bonded parts such as rubber rands and soles.

This test is equivalent to a long period of product verification.

In addition, in our laboratory, the pull meter allows us to test the bonding strength between sole and upper, sole and rands, and between rands and upper, measuring the force to the breaking point, with an accepted minimum of 4.5 dal/Newton.

The Martindale is used for abrasion tests on fabrics, during which materials are rubbed in cycles, according to customer or supplier specifications, which can vary between 10,000 and 50,000 cycles.
We also have a final machine dedicated to abrasion simulation, mainly used on screen prints or transfers, which uses small abrasive materials to test image resistance to continuous rubbing cycles, ensuring durability of finishes.