COMPANY LABORATORIES 11.6

The testing activities cannot be conducted without the laboratories in which small-scale tests and analyses that guarantee the compliance of processes and products with legislative standards and customer requests are carried out.

Gruppo Mastrotto is equipped with three physical laboratories and a central chemical laboratory. The analytical autonomy of the company is a unique case within the industry.

15 people work in the company's laboratories, who carry out all kinds of analyses required by the various types of product segments supplied.

Gruppo Mastrotto participates annually in inter-laboratory circuits organized by the Institute for Interlaboratory Studies (Consumer Products Proficiency Tests) for specific chemical analyses. For some analyses it has also obtained the attestation of excellence. Among these pH, formaldehyde in finished leathers, azo dyes in finished leathers.

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the people who work in the company's laboratories

Chemical tests available:

• aromatic amines derived from azo dyes

• phthalates

• phenols (chlorinated)

• hexavalent chromium (before and after ageing)

• formaldehyde

• VDA277 emissions