📋 Tender Overview
To promote quality standards in the leather, footwear and derivatives industry, the National Quality Institute (Inacal), an agency attached to the Ministry of Production, promotes the application of approximately 182 Peruvian Technical Standards (NTP) that ensure the quality of leather-based products and thus facilitate their commercialization not only in the national market. but international.
"Through compliance with these Peruvian Technical Standards we want to improve the levels of quality and efficiency in the production and elaboration processes of products such as footwear, straps, watch straps, bags, among others and so that the final customer receives a quality product," said the president of Inacal, César José Bernabé Pérez.
In addition, he said that this important industry will allow it to increase its exports and reach new market niches to find more business opportunities. Well, according to a latest report from the sector, exports of leather footwear in 2022 had a growth of 38%, after the shipment of 361,000 pairs of leather footwear.
He stressed that in recent years Inacal has developed important technical standards for the footwear sector that include from the designation of measures (sizes), requirements and test methods for color fastness, determination of the resistance of soles, cleats, caps, insteps, linings and insoles and cuts.
Likewise, a Peruvian Technical Standard has been established that establishes and defines clear concepts and criteria for an informative labeling of the different articles of leather goods (leather work) and clothing that guarantees the quality of the finished product.
The standard specifies that all clothing or leather goods must carry labels indicating the composition of materials or other information related to the cleanliness of the material to ensure the quality of the product.
"We have also drawn up technical standards with the basic requirements that must be met for the manufacture of school footwear in order to guarantee their proper use in students according to the conception of the product," said the executive president.
And to determine the heat resistance of patent leather and have a good and quality final product, Inacal has also established test methods that will allow it to study the product before its final manufacture.
ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY
Likewise, the executive president of Inacal, said that a Peruvian Technical Standard has been developed that specifies quantitative test methods to evaluate the antibacterial activity of footwear and its components.
"It is important that, at the time of the manufacture of a leather article, the material used has the necessary inputs to prevent or attenuate the growth of bacteria and in that way, have comfortable and quality footwear for consumers," he said.
This is how Inacal is committed to continue working to strengthen a culture of quality in the development of products and services that contribute to generate added value to everything that is produced, benefiting the end user by promoting a quality product for Peruvians.
