Hangzhou Exports Children's Wear For Three Consecutive Years, "Zero Notification"

As far as the design of the whole dress is concerned, a small button, a pearl or even a thread can be added to children's clothing if they are not handled properly.

Zhejiang Hangzhou region exports more than 1000 batches of children's clothing every year. In the face of high-risk export of children's clothing products, Hangzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau has worked out a set of effective methods for inspection and supervision, and realized the "zero notification" of children's wear in Hangzhou for three consecutive years, effectively ensuring the quality and safety of children's garments and maintaining the reputation of "made in China".

Read "safety classics" children's wear "zero bulletin", "details decide everything, children's clothing is most needed is our love and sense of responsibility."

Walk into the Hangzhou Marriott garment factory in Xianlin Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou. It is a clothing company mainly exporting cowboy children's clothing. Last year it exported children's clothing worth about 3000000 US dollars, mainly for the British brand "NEXT" to produce children's clothing. In the sewing workshop near the 300 floor of the 5 floor, every operation desk was kept in good order, and a packet of denim was cut neatly stacked in front of the sewing machine, waiting for the splicing and sewing of the workers.

Ding Diaofei, director of the factory, told me that cowboy clothing is different from other children's clothing. Because the cloth is thicker and harder, the sewing machine can easily break the needle. "Once the broken needle is hidden in the clothing, it will bring danger to the child." Ding Fei Fei still remembers a video recording that he saw in a training course of export clothing quality and safety held in Hangzhou a year ago. A little girl in abroad wore a knitted sweater, and because of a truncated needle hidden in her collar, while her mother was helping the children to dress, the broken needle left a deep and long wound on the child's face. "Particularly shocking!" Ding Diaofei breathed a deep sigh. "It shows how important the safety of children's clothing is. If we do a little bit more, our children will be less dangerous."

Therefore, the Marriott garment factory has set up a near harsh system for the broken needle Management: every sewing group leader must register the quantity when sewing needles, and when all the sewing needles are reused, they must hand over the stitches they once received, including every part of the broken needles. They should be spliced together and hand in together. If the registration figures are not checked, the clothes and cloth on the operation table should be checked manually with manual checking device. If the test is not done, the clothes and cloth in the range of 1.5 meters in the center of the operation table must be collected and checked to the imported electronic inspection machine. "If this is not proven, we would rather burn the boat and abandon the goods and report it to foreign customers." Ding said, "there may be some economic losses in doing so, but what is more important than the possible safety incidents? We have a steelyard in mind."

In the Marriott garment factory, in order to ensure the accuracy of the needle detector and the needle checking machine, the enterprise should be debugged every two hours, and the locking machine used to lock the rivet and button must be debugged every two hours. And metal tools such as small scissors, tweezers and so on, enterprises are tied up with strong rope, so as not to mix into clothing. All attachments such as adjusting buttons and zippers on children's trousers should be sampled and pulled for 90 seconds by 10 Newton's pull. "The details determine everything, and what we need most is our love and sense of responsibility." Ding Fei said.

"We need to start from the source to ensure that children's clothing is safe."

Like the Marriott garment factory, the Boka garment factory in Hangzhou has a very systematic account in the quality and safety management of children's clothing, whether it is the management of small items such as buttons, sutures and glass ornaments, or buttons, decorations and rope drawers. "In fact, we have experienced a stage of never understanding the quality and safety of children's clothing and actively participating in safety management, which is inseparable from the enthusiasm of the inspection and quarantine department."

"Boka clothing" is the leader of Hangzhou children's wear enterprises, mainly for the "H&M" company to produce children's clothing. "When we first started making children's clothing, our customers gave us a thick book, 24 pages of" baby's clothing and children's safety requirements "manual, we do not think so. Gao Xian told the writer, but under the careful guidance of experts from the Hangzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau, coupled with two related training sessions every year, the concept of safety has been fundamentally reversed. "Some foreign cases of small asphyxia leading to asphyxia, and the injuries caused by rope belts have given us a deep feeling. The safety standard of children's clothing is not a mountain out of a molehill, but is accumulated on the basis of lessons.

In order to do a good job in quality and safety management, "Boka clothing" is not only in strict accordance with the requirements of the quality inspection of Hangzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau, as well as the safety manual provided by "H&M" company, but also actively analyzes the design of customers and finds new problems in time. At the end of last year, a client submitted the design of a boy's coat. When the technical department saw the drawings, it found that the design of the rope was too long, and it had already surpassed the length of the jacket, and also far exceeded the European standard of children's clothing with no more than 20 centimeters of rope. "We immediately explained the EU standards to our customers, hoping to improve the design. The customer was pleased to agree and praised us for being professional." In fact, there are many examples of strict checks on design drawings from Boka. Another time, the workers found that a boy jeans shirt had not passed the needle machine many times. The reason was that the shirt buttons were made of iron. The enterprise has repurchased another kind of button made of copper and other metal materials, though the cost has doubled, but it has guaranteed the quality and safety of children's clothing.

In safety control, self checking and self testing ability of enterprises is particularly important. Gao Xian Dong took the author into their lab: there are water washing machines specially designed to test the color fastness of children's clothing, an oscillator for testing the fabric's pH, a tensile tester for testing small accessories fastness, and a friction tester for color fastness to friction. Behind the dazzling testing instruments is a strong sense of responsibility for the quality and safety of children's clothing. "We should start from the source to ensure that there is no safety problem in children's clothing exports," said Gao. {page_break}

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The quality and safety of children's clothing need the joint efforts of enterprises and inspection and quarantine departments. In the past, many enterprises because of children's clothing production requirements, high risk of return, there is a fear of difficulty when ordering, we encourage enterprises to boldly take orders, the key is to control the safety factors, children's clothing to meet the requirements of the importing country.

- Chen Yan, deputy director of textile department, Hangzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau

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Supervision of prenatal guidance

For three years, the Hangzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau's supervision over children's clothing is not a simple and strict management. It is based on the management and integrity of the enterprises, the requirements of importing countries, and the risk of products to determine the strictness of supervision and management. Efforts should be made to supervise and move ahead and attach importance to prenatal technical guidance. Inspectors should actively promote the safety requirements for children's clothing exported to Europe, America and other countries, and actively intervene in children's clothing design and purchase stage to avoid losses caused by defective children's clothing.

The enterprise communication system promotes the supervision function, and collects, analyzes and releases relevant information by tracking the foreign technical trade measures and the risk early warning mechanism, so as to enable enterprises to understand the dynamics and enhance the coping ability at the first time, and requires enterprises to strengthen the audit of the design of small accessories, rope belts and small openings, carry out risk assessment and design confirmation before taking orders, do not blindly take orders, attach importance to the quality safety of accessories, establish and improve qualified suppliers, conform to the external processing conditions of enterprise evaluation system and the surface accessories product traceability system, strengthen the control of the key links in the production process, and focus on monitoring the physical and chemical monitoring items such as azo, formaldehyde, pH value, nickel containing, zipper head and button pull, and other safety items and components. Specifically, the Hangzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau mainly adopted the following four measures: strengthening the detection of key safety projects, and actively promoting the application of "inspection".