Abeko Lab

This is where we try out and test all our products and ideas before we approve them. New materials, seams, tape systems, welds and construction methods all have to be passed by Abeko Lab to prove their worth. We don’t go easy on our clothing. We abrade it, stretch it, wash it, measure it and cut it before we can put our brand on it.
We test all our products and ideas.
Everything has to be passed by Abeko Lab.

We test all our products and ideas.
Everything has to be passed by Abeko Lab.

We leave nothing to chance

Here are a few examples of the tests and inspections that our clothing has to undergo before you can buy it from a store.

Button puller. Making sure that buttons are firmly attached is not just a quality requirement, but also a safety aspect. We naturally don’t want a button coming loose as it could be a choking hazard for a child. All our buttons, fasteners, and the fabrics they are attached to must withstand a force of at least 90 N in order to pass our test.

Colourfastness. Our clothing holds its colour. We test the colourfastness of our fabrics by rubbing. A white cloth is rubbed against the fabric, both wet and dry, to check that the fabric does not stain or fade.

Lightbox. Do the colours appear as intended? And what happens when the lighting changes? Checking the colours in a lightbox is a test that is widely used in the textile industry – and by us of course.

Water column test. All our rainwear and most of our workwear undergoes a water column test. In order to be classified as rainwear under European standards and to receive the highest CE mark (class 3) a garment has to withstand a water column of 1,325 millimetres. But we believe that rainwear should withstand at least 2,000 millimetres! We therefore test everything extra carefully, including the seams, in our own lab, before it is released for classification.

All about rain

Water itself has no taste, it is the salts and minerals in it that give it flavour.

If you could stack the molecules in a litre of water on top of each other, it would take 8.4 months for light to reach from the bottom to the top of the pile. From the sun to the earth takes 8 minutes.

Only 1% of all available water on the Earth is freshwater.

A jellyfish's body has a higher percentage of water than the water it swims in.

Frozen water has been found on the moon.

The world's rainiest place on average is Cherrapunji in north-eastern India, which gets 11 metres of rain a year.

Guadeloupe in the Caribbean holds the world record for rainfall, 38 mm in one minute on 26 November 1970.

The record for rainfall in one day in Sweden is 276 mm, measured in the Falufjallet mountains in Dalarna on 31 August 1997.

An average 5-mm rain drop falls at a rate of 9 metres per second. This means that it takes three minutes and 20 seconds for a drop to reach the ground if it falls from a cloud at an altitude of 1800 metres.

A single drop of rain is 0.5-6.0 mm in diameter. It can never be larger than 6.0 mm, because at that point it breaks into several smaller drops. Drizzle has smaller drops, about 0.1-0.5 mm.