What is ISO 18168 – Colour fastness of textile floor coverings about?
Daily hygiene requires regular cleaning of floors and textiles covering the floors. These include carpets, floor mats, doormats, etc. ISO 18168 describes a method for determining the colour fastness of textile floor coverings and yarns, loose fibres and tufts extracted from textile floor coverings to the action of a reference shampoo solution.
Who is ISO 18168 – Colour fastness of textile floor coverings for?
ISO 18168 guidelines on colour fastness of textile floor coverings are useful for:
- Textile Industry 
- Carpet and doormat manufacturers 
- Sling designing teams
- Product development teams/innovation teams
- Quality control personnel
Why should you use ISO 18168 - Colour fastness of textile floor coverings?
With repeated cleaning, the fabrics of the textile get affected. Industries need to confirm the viability of their product by running certain checks.  ISO 18168 provides guidelines for the test procedures. A specimen of a textile floor covering, yarn, loose fibre or tuft, in contact with specified adjacent fabrics, is immersed under pressure in a shampoo solution buffered to a pH of (7,5 ± 0,2). The specimen and the adjacent fabric are dried separately. The change in colour of the specimen and the staining of the adjacent fabrics are assessed using the grey scales.
Using ISO 18168 guidelines, you can ensure that customers have access to superior quality floor coverings.
