Footwear Manufacturers

SATRA offers a partnership to support you with a unique range of services as a "one stop shop".

Increase your profits through:

1. Demonstrating your quality

Whether you want to test your shoes in our laboratories or your own, SATRA's reputation and expertise can help you prove the fitness-for-purpose and value-for-money of your products.

Testing at SATRA

Can be carried out against SATRA's own Performance Guidelines or leading national and international standards.
A special "fast-track" service is available to ensure you get your results when you need them.
Technical problem solving and resolving disputes are a speciality.
Remember - a SATRA test report means customer confidence

Testing in-house

SATRA can supply all the equipment, training and support to help you become a "SATRA Accredited Laboratory".
Sensor monitoring system for production, transport, and warehouse functions.

Need ISO 9001?

SATRA can advise and award certification.

2. "Add value" to your product

SATRA's research programme provides input for developing:

Enhanced comfort.
Improved fitting, water resistance, slip resistance.
Products for niche markets, such as safety shoes.

3. Profit from SATRA systems

With over 500 systems installed in shoe companies worldwide, SATRA has demonstrated an ability to reduce costs or improve productivity through specially developed systems such as:

SATRASUMM - reduces leather costs, on average by between 5-8%.
VISIONSTITCH - increases stitching productivity.
SATRADATA - controls labour costs.

Use the SATRA comfort index to quantify comfort

4. Give your staff the tools they need

Training SATRA's "menu" offers you focused training courses, training videos, CD ROMs.
Market Information Market surveys and predictions to help future planning.
Publications Free monthly Bulletin, Footwear Business International and Spotlight. Other series on request.
Legislation Ensure compliance - health and safety/environmental services. SATRA can help install systems for ISO 14001, ISO 18000, SA 8000 etc.
Stand out from the crowd - become a SAFT (SATRA Accredited Footwear Technologist) and SALPT (SATRA Accredited Leather Products Technologist).