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Telephone: 2799 1202 E-mail: tmtc@go.to |
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Introduction |
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| The Textile
Manufacturing Technology Centre (TMTC) was established in
1998 and supported by the Innovation and Technology Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
The Centre is jointly administered by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU) and
the Clothing Industry Training
Authority (CITA). The initial phase of the project is to
set-up an Apparel and Textile Testing Laboratory. |
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Mission |
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| The Centre aims to
promote the transfer of technology, to develop products, to facilitate the industry to
improve quality, to shorten lead times and increase productivity. Overall it will enhance
the global competitiveness of textile related sectors in Hong Kong. |
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| Newly set-up Laboratory |
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| The Centre has established an Apparel and Textile Testing Laboratory and aimed to develop and upgrade employee's skills in apparel and textiles related companies. The Laboratory is located at the 4th floor of the Clothing Industry Training Authority. | |||||
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| The Laboratory has recruited experienced personnel to run the service. Laboratory Manager Dr. Simon Mak (right) and his assistant Mr. C.M. Cheung (left), both of them have worked in Textile Testing Laboratories for over ten years. Dr. Mak has obtained his doctorate from the University of Leeds, UK. After graduation, he has worked in the textile industry and textile testing laboratory both in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Dr. Mak has extensive working experience in the area of product testing, quality assurance, laboratory accreditation, research and development. He is confident that efficient and effective services of the Centre will be provided to the textile commerce and industry in Hong Kong. |  |
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State-of-art Equipment |
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The
Laboratory has installed some 30 pieces of new testing equipment in the laboratory. The
projection microscope can provide fibre analysis, such as ramie/cotton composition. The
lightfastness tester can provide testing of colorfastness to light and weathering. The
launder-Ometre can provide colorfastness to washing and bleaching. The tensile tester can
provide breaking strength and extension to yarn, fabric and seam. Other apparatus include
pilling, abrasion, perspiration, crockmeter, wascator, flammability, Spray rating, tear
and bursting strength testers, etc. |
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Services |
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| The Centre focuses on
technology transfer with reference to the quality aspects of textiles and clothing.
Services include quality evaluation workshops and seminars, special training services for
individual companies, assistant companies to set-up cost effective in-house laboratories,
advisory and consultancy services. 1. Hands-on Workshops / Training Course / Seminars The purpose of organizing the workshops, training course and seminars is to provide a suitable studying and working environment for the participants to study, discuss and solve their technical problems. In addition, the participants have the opportunity to exercise practical testing and quality evaluation in a testing laboratory, which is similar to commercial and industrial conditions. A series of quality evaluation workshops and seminars will be offered in general and special training courses can be tailor-made for individual companies. |
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General Courses:
Special Courses - Textile Testing of Garment Quality Evalution:
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Assisting companies to set up cost-effective laboratories One of the Laboratory's objectives is to assist textile and clothing companies to upgrade their quality evaluation systems. An effective means of doing it is to build up a cost- effective in-house laboratory within the company. The advantages of having such an in-house laboratory are that the running cost of the laboratory is low and yet it can provide lots of testing data within a relatively short period of time. Management decisions on quality issues can be made more efficiently. |
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| For instance, with the investment of as low as HK$50,000 for testing equipment, and a space of about 150 square feet, company may build up a cost-effective in-house laboratory which can be used to evaluate the performance of apparels and textile products on the following areas: | |||||
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On the other hand, if $500,000 is available for investment of testing equipment, you may further expand your testing capabilities, such as: |
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| 3. Advisory services The Centre aims to provide advisory services, trouble shooting, problem solving, product modification, label care development and verification of textile materials and garments. Our Laboratory Manager will be delighted to discuss in details with you. Please contact Dr. Simon Mak at 2799 1202 or email: tmtc@go.to |
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