The CENTER TESTING INTERNATIONAL (#CTI) signed, on Jan. 28, 2022, a partnership agreement with the CENTER TECHNIQUE DU TEXTILE in the presence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of CETTEX, Mr. Mehdi MILED, the Managing Director of CETTEX , Mr. El Mohsen MISSAOUI and the representative of CTI-France, Ms. Sandrine LEMAISTRE for the collaboration of laboratory services to expand the global footprint of both entities' consumer product quality assurance services.  

This Tunisian-Chinese cooperation agreement between the two centers will give rise to a new qualitative dynamic for the development of the activities of the physical, chemical and Consumer Health and Safety laboratories of CETTEX and the transfer of skills necessary for international development.

The agreement also includes technical support actions, the exchange of experiences and the capitalization of knowledge through the pooling of common resources and the creation of synergy. This will make it possible to meet the requirements of international markets in a win-win collaboration approach.

CETTEX is strongly supported by the local Tunisian government and the supplier to have the foreign brand to recognize directly the CETTEX. In Tunisia, CETTEX has strong capacities in mechanical and physical tests for the textile. Today there is  80% of the local market and 20% of the foreign business in CETTEX.

The collaboration will help increase the visibility of CETTEX and CTI, and also strong the technical cooperation and standard sharing between the CETTEX and CTI.

CTI, founded in 2003 and based in Shenzhen China, provides testing, inspection, certification services and one-stop solutions for a wide range of industries. It has a network of over 150 laboratories in over 70 locations around the world.

This new partnership establishes an agreement to jointly work together in the development and delivery of cutting-edge QA/QC solutions to the consumer products industry across the globe. If you would like to learn more about the partnership between CTI and CETTEX, please contact us at hongkong@cti-cert.com.