The GIM Advantage
GIM's team of inspectors, auditors and lab experts are specialized by industry to ensure your products meet all safety and performance standards for your destination market.
The garment industry is one of the most scrutinised in the world when it comes to quality control in terms of both the products themselves and the manufacturing process.
By using our services, you gain access to a wealth of industry-specific experts who can help you in factories around the world for a very competitive price. Our inspectors and advisors have years of experience in the footwear industry, as well as knowledge of the latest standards. We also conduct various types of factory audits and have access to high-tech equipment in laboratories, that will ensure your results are as quick, simple and accurate as possible.
We know that your footwear company is held to a variety of standards in markets around the world and that there are all kinds of product-specific metrics that need to be tested to ensure a quality product, which is why you should trust our team's knowledge and expertise. We follow AQL Inspection standards ANSI/ASQC Z1.4 (ISO 2859-1) for all quality contol procedures.
Our inspectors can test a huge range of variables in your footwear products depending on your needs, including everything from bonding, colour variation and fatigue all the way to complex metrics like barcode integrity, mould contamination reports and care labelling.
As well as the specific product that you make, our team are able to audit and inspect the whole production process from start to finish in your own facilities or those of your suppliers.
This applies for quality control and efficiency purposes, so we can ensure both that the work is being done to high standards and that it is being done in the most cost-effective way possible. Using this information, you can then fix issues that might cause problems further down the line, or tighten up processes that might be costing you money unnecessarily.
Not all issues are immediately obvious, and your quality control is the last place you are able to test your products before they go out into the world, so getting that in-depth information on a representative sample of your products can be invaluable. Using our extensive lab facilities, we can perform a variety of tests to ensure your products meet the world's most stringent standards that go beyond the more simple surface testing you may currently carry out.
We can conduct raw material inspection for harmful substances, corrosion, slip resistance, fire safety and chemical composition in order to meet standards around the world from North America to Europe and Asia - making sure you're able to sell in these markets, keeping your customers safe from harm and keeping your company safe from legal liability claims.
GIM's team of inspectors, auditors and lab experts are specialized by industry to ensure your products meet all safety and performance standards for your destination market.
At Holam, we appreciate the work of GIM, thanks to the quality of their service and the flexibility of their reports, which fully meet our needs. The quality of their work is combined with their reports, which are always explicit and address all the specifics of our products. With GIM, the inspections are as if we were doing them ourselves.
GIM provides us with inspection reports for our clients from the jewelry industry, my products are mainly made of wood (displays, and boxes). I like to work with GIM for their efficiency, attention to details, and reliability in their inspection results.
After multiple problems in our book productions, we asked GIM to inspect each of our book productions in China. Their service and follow-up is excellent and we are now also working with them in Vietnam.
We are a company specializing in the distribution of gift products in France. GIM was able to meet the scope of our needs, both in terms of "sourced products" and in negotiations with Chinese suppliers to enable us to obtain reasonable quantities allowing us to expand our range of products. GIM was able to guide us in its research by monitoring the entire production line all the way to quality control. Their ability to listen, their service and their professionalism are qualities that we found in GIM.
Answers to some of the most common questions & concerns.
