IFTH Institut Francais Textile & Habillement
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IFTH Institut Francais Textile & Habillement
Avenue Guy de Collongue
69134 Écully
France
Telephone+33 4 72 86 16 00
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About us
French technological reference center for each company or brand from the fashion, clothing and technical textile sectors.
Its skills, laboratories and technical platforms, which can be mobilized throughout the life cycle of fashion and textile products, make IFTH a complete and unique solution on the french territory. Every day, IFTH supports textile brands and industries to:
- Guarantee the quality, durability and safety of products to protect the health/safety of the end consumer
- Initiate, consolidate and strengthen the eco-responsible approaches of each player in the sector
- Develop processes that will make it possible to ensure the future of the clothing and textile sectors
IFTH is the official representative of the international OEKO-TEX® certification association in France. IFTH also manages the National Bureau for Sectoral Standardization (BNITH), by delegation from AFNOR.
Our product groups
- Research, Development, Education, Consulting
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Special Interests

Keywords
- INNOVATION & PROTOTYPING
- ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSITION
- QUALITY & DURABILITY
- TECHNICAL TEXTILES
- FASHION & CLOTHING
Our Products

INNOVATION & PROTOTYPING
You are a brand or manufacturer of fashion/clothing/textile materials or products, and you wish to create a new source of profit or savings by developing new products or processes?
IFTH is beside you to innovate thanks to:
- complete laboratories and technological platforms dedicated to the development of new products and process
- digital or physical prototyping equipment
- technical advices services and expertise for R&I diagnosis or project management

CERTIFICATION & LABELING
Voluntary labeling:
IFTH is the official representative of OEKO-TEX® in France, and supports you in finding the best possible labeling solution according to your needs. The OEKO-TEX® labels allow you to position your activity and your items using common and standardized international standards (STANDARD 100, MADE IN GREEN, STeP, ECO PASSPORT, LEATHER STANDARD etc.), to promote the responsibility of your supply chain, to establish a high level of trust with your customers and consumers, to access new markets.
Mandatory certification:
You are a manufacturer, distributor, importer of protective equipment or textile materials for the regulated PPE market? By certifying the quality, the harmlessness and the safety of your products, you ensure the protection of your customers but also your environmental responsibility. IFTH is beside you for certification procedures before placing on the market (CE marking)

TEST & EVALUATION
You are responsible for the quality and performance of your products. Have you ever put in place a process, before they are placed on the market, to ensure this quality and performance, their compliance with regulations, your ability to meet all the technical requirements of a specification customer charges?
IFTH is beside you to :
- Guarantee an optimal level of safety, and check that the products comply with the initial specifications as well as the substance standards (REACH regulation compliance for example).
- Support you in setting up quality monitoring
- Enable transparency and security for the consumer

TRAINING & SKILLS
You want to focus on validating acquired skills, strengthening expertise and skills, updating knowledge, or discovering new professions to motivate your teams, recruit and integrate new employees and optimize well-being and performance at work?
IFTH is beside you with:
- Professionnal training
- Strategic monitoring