At home we use rope to tie something together or tie it up and we don't think about the technicality behind the product. However, our ropes are used in various business processes or in applications where quality assurance is extremely important. To guarantee impeccable quality, specific knowledge is required as well as thorough quality control with adapted equipment and established procedures.

Rope is a technical, but artisanal product. Characteristics such as breaking force, diameter and length are very important, and we must be able to guarantee them blindly. Below are some examples of how we can achieve this in concrete terms.

• On a periodic basis, ropes are removed from the warehouse and production and subjected to strict quality controls. For example, we test the breaking force internally with our own tensile testing machine.
• Many of our machines work autonomously. An operator selects the correct program and loads the raw materials, after which the machine can continue for hours. For example, the machines themselves contain wire guards and sensors built in that detect wire breakage.
• The cotton yarns are purchased in metric yarn numbers (NM) or the number of meters of yarn per gram. Visually, the difference in thickness between the different NMs is not visible, which is why we work with a yarn counter here.
• Natural ropes have the additional feature that it is not always easy to have a constant supply of raw materials. The diameter or thickness can be e.g. deviate once. In our cotton production, different yarns are twisted together to form a thicker product. If the base yarns have a different thickness, the recipe will no longer be correct, and the final rope will also not have the expected diameter. 1 different thread that is used 48 times to create a thicker rope has a major impact on the result. Here too, we opt for a check of the yarns upon arrival, so that the recipe can be adjusted if necessary and we always deliver a consistent product.
• 4-eye principle. Each product passes through at least 2 pairs of hands, so that 2 people can pay attention to the quality and additional items may catch the eye.