Eurofins Product Testing - Furniture

The Furniture market is huge. Small and large manufacturers, small and large retailers are delivering products that shall fulfil their technical specifications and be safe to the user.

Furniture can be made of combinations of wood, metal, plastics, coatings, and textiles.

Legal Background / Regulations

• Product Safety Directive (EU)
• European (E1), Californian (CARB) and Japanese restriction of formaldehyde emissions

Main activities

• Testing for legal compliance, for voluntary ecolabel application, for customer specifications
• Contribution to international standardisation
• Contribution to industry labels and to manufacturer R&D projects

Eurofins position

Eurofins is world-wide market leader on the field of product emission testing and the lab with the most international recognitions. This allows performing just one test and then report for several purposes - saving money for manufacturer if compared with ordering one test each per purpose.

Eurofins is supporting quality management of several small and large retailer chains by target focussed testing.

Eurofins is contributing actively to improvement of testing quality in general and in its own facilities.