Type of Furniture Products and Test Methods and Standards

Contract Laboratory can assist your company, academic institution, government agency or organization in outsourcing contract laboratories to perform testing, analysis, and product development for many Furniture finished products, processes, systems, in-process materials, raw materials and components such as:

  • Sofas
  • coffee tables
  • hutches
  • dining tables
  • casegoods
  • storage
  • kitchen cabinets
  • desk chairs
  • chairs
  • children’s furniture
  • stools
  • ottomans
  • recliners
  • sectionals
  • benches
  • sofa beds
  • beds
  • mattresses
  • loungers
  • bookshelves
  • chaise lounges
  • end tables
  • storage units
  • shelving
  • carts
  • rockers
  • desks
  • filing cabinets
  • wall dividers

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Furniture Test Methods and Standards

Contract Laboratory can help with testing, analysis, assays, evaluations, examinations, inspections and certifications to different Furniture test methods,standards, procedures or specifications.

  • ASTM E1822-17: – Standard Test Method for Fire Testing of Stacked Chairs
  • ASTM E1474-14: – Standard Test Method for Determining the Heat Release Rate of Upholstered Furniture and Mattress Components or Composites Using a Bench Scale Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter
  • ASTM E1352-16: – Standard Test Method for Cigarette Ignition Resistance of Mock-Up Upholstered Furniture Assemblies
  • ANSI X5.1 – Office Seating
  • ANSI 5.3 – Vertical Files
  • ANSI X5.4 – ANSI/BIFMA Lounge and Public Seating
  • ANSI – Desk Products. ANSI/BIFMA X5.6 Panel Systems
  • ANSI X5.11 – Large Occupant Office Seating
  • ANSI X7.1 – Standard for Formaldehyde and TVOC Emissions
  • ANSI E3 – Furniture Sustainability Standard
  • BIFMA G1 – Ergonomics Guideline for Furniture
  • BIFMA – Sustainability Guidelines for Office Furniture
  • BIFMA Tex4.1 – 2005 – Woven Textile Characteristics
  • ISO TC-136 – Furniture
  • ANSI – Furniture Testing for Small Office/Home Office furnishings ANSI/BHMA A156.9 Furniture Testing ANSI/KCMA A161.1 Kitchen Cabinet Furniture Testing Coordination of Electrical Component Certification and Listing (ETL Listed Mark)
  • ASTM E2280-17: – Standard Guide for Fire Hazard Assessment of the Effect of Upholstered Seating Furniture Within Patient Rooms of Health Care Facilities
  • ASTM F1427-13 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Bunk Beds.
  • ASTM F834-84 (2008) – Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Chests
  • ASTM F1427-13 – ASTM Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Bunk Beds
  • ASTM F2285-04(2016)e1 – Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Diaper Changing Tables for Commercial Use
  • ASTM F3317-18a – ASTM Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Floor Seats
  • ASTM F1821-18 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toddler Beds
  • ISO 19833:2018 – Furniture — Beds — Test methods for the determination of stability, strength and durability
  • ISO 10131-2:1997 – Foldaway beds — Safety requirements and tests — Part 2: Test methods
  • ISO 10131-1:1997 – Foldaway beds — Safety requirements and tests — Part 1: Safety requirements
  • ISO 9098-2:1994 – Bunk beds for domestic use — Safety requirements and tests — Part 2: Test methods
  • ASTM F1427-13 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Bunk Beds
  • AS 4688 – Furniture – Fixed height chairs, Part 1: Safety and general requirements
  • NFPA 272 – Standard Method of Test for Heat and Visible Smoke Release Rates for Upholstered Furniture Components or Composites and Mattresses Using an Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter
  • NFPA 266 – Standard Method of Test for Fire Characteristics of Upholstered Furniture Exposed to Flaming Ignition Source
  • NFPA 261 – Standard Method of Test for Determining Resistance of Mock-Up Upholstered Furniture Material Assemblies to Ignition by Smoldering Cigarettes
  • NFPA 260 – Standard Methods of Tests and Classification System for Cigarette Ignition Resistance of Components of Upholstered Furniture
  • ASTM F2285 – Standard Consumer Safety Performance Specification for Diaper Changing Tables for Commercial Use
  • ASTM F3118 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Inclined Sleep Products
  • ASTM F3317 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Floor Seats
  • ASTM F3343 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Bathers
  • ASTM F2088 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant and Cradle Swings
  • ASTM D6670 – Standard Practice for Full-Scale Chamber Determination of Volatile Organic Emissions from Indoor Materials/Products
  • ASTM F404-20 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for High Chairs
  • ASTM F1566-14(2021) – Standard Test Methods for Evaluation of Innersprings, Boxsprings, Mattresses or Mattress Sets
  • ASTM F1912-19 – Standard Specification for Safety of Bean Bag Chairs and Bean Bag Covers
  • ASTM F851-87(2020) – Standard Test Method for Self-Rising Seat Mechanisms
  • ASTM F1235-18 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Portable Hook-On Chairs
  • ASTM F3084-20 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant and Infant/Toddler Rockers
  • ASTM F1427 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Bunk Beds
  • ASTM F404 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for High Chairs
  • ASTM 1821 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toddler Beds
  • ASTM F2598 – Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Clothing Storage Chests
  • ISTA 2C – Partial Simulation Tests – Furniture Packages

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