Textile testing laboratory

CSIRO has the best equipped textile testing laboratory in Australia for investigating the properties of fibres, yarns, textiles and related materials.

8 July 2010 | Updated 14 October 2011

Who to contact
Our services
Fee-for-service basis

CSIRO offers physical and chemical textile tests. We measure the properties of textiles and related materials.

Who to contact

Mr Dale Carroll is our Manager of Consulting Services, located at Geelong, Victoria. Mr Carroll is available for consulting and assisting businesses in solving problems with a wide range of textile and textile-related matters.

‘The advantage of our combined facilities for clients is the wide choice of tests for every textile problem,’ Mr Carroll said.

‘Using these facilities we select a set of tests for each material of interest. When we put all the results together, we suggest production or treatment changes, and then track the resulting changes in properties and performance by running the tests again.’

‘There’s no quicker or more cost-effective way of providing solutions for our clients.’

‘And interpretation of the test results forms part of our service. We explain what a result means for product development, production issues and quality control problems,’ Mr Carroll said.

We also provide automotive specification testing for interior fittings, such as:

adhesion strength
flammability
breaking strength
fade resistance
seam strength
tear strength
thermal migration
staining
Ultraviolet deterioration, and much more.

See our Automotive specification testing listing.

Our services

CSIRO's textile testing laboratory is National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) accredited to the highest Australian and international standards. We test:

CSIRO’s textile testing laboratory is accredited to the highest international standards