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China issued an updated version of its national standard for silk quilts GB/T 24252-2019. The revised standard will become effective on May 1, 2020.
China issued an updated version of its national standard for silk quilts GB/T 24252-2019. The revised standard will become effective on May 1, 2020.
The National Technical Committee of Garments of the Standardization Administration of China issued its product standard GB/T 24252-2019 for silk quilts. The new standard will become effective on May 1, 2020. Being included in China’s No. 13 announcement on the newly approved national standards in 2019, the new standard will replace the previous version, GB/T 24252-2009.
This standard applies to silk quilt products that are made with either mulberry silk or tussah silk or both as the main wadding materials and the wadding material set with wadding cover by machine stitching or hand quilting. Silk quilts filled with other kinds of silk fiber as wadding materials may refer to this standard too.
Compared with GB/T 24252-2009, GB/T 24252-2019 contains many revisions.
What are added include:
What are adjusted include:
What are revised include:
The main technical requirements include safety performance, internal quality, appearance quality and process quality.
Safety performance - The safety requirement of silk quilts shall comply with GB 18401, and the safety requirements on infant’s and children’s silk quilts defined in GB 31701 should also be complied with if the product is for infants and children.
Internal quality – Internal quality includes fiber content of wadding covers and wadding, wadding performance (wadding quality, the length of silk floss, oil content, moisture regain, weight deviation rate, residual gum content, trash content, fluorescent brighteners and compressibility and recovery properties), colorfastness of wadding covers (washing with soap or soap and soda, perspiration, water and dry rubbing), and dimensional change rate after washing. Meanwhile, this standard requires that the weight of silk wadding shall not be added by weight increasing process.For more information, please refer to the China Product Standard GB/T 24252-2019 (Silk Quilts) or contact SGS directly.
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