Creating the next-generation of workwear has not happened overnight. Our years of textile expertise have enabled us to diligently develop innovative new designs to meet the tough requirements of today’s working environments.
Fristads’ focus on quality coupled with customer communication and the positive approach of our personnel allows us to make continual improvements to our products and services- ensuring that we more than measure up to your specialised standards.
Fristads’ founder John Magnuson’s motto was: twice the wear is half the price and testing is key in maintaining the first-class quality, durability and good value we pride ourselves upon. Abrasion resistance, tear and tensile strength, colourfastness and shrinking are just some of the many tests carried out in our laboratory.
Working together with leading fabric producers ensures each material is engineered fit-for-purpose and given the Fristads touch to bring you smartly designed, great-looking garments with your safety, style and comfort in mind.
1. Qualitypolicy
Quality will be our hallmark and will show through in all our goods and services. The aim of our quality policy is to meet, and if possible surpass, what our customers expect of us before, during and after their purchase. Every customer contact should lead to a recommendation for new purchases.
Quality is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone has a customer, inside and outside the organization.
To remain a successful and competitive business, it is vital that we measure up to our quality goals and maintain constant improvement. This will be achieved by a right-sized organization, fit-for-purpose work procedures and our personnel’s positive attitude and commitment.
2. ISO 9001
In everything we do we strive to ensure that our products, our manufacturing and our operations maintain a consistently high quality.
Part of Fristads’ business development involves ensuring that we deliver the right quality when it comes to our clothing as well as our ancillary services.
We constantly carry out customer surveys aiming to systematically gather valuable information from our business partners on market trends, the Fristads brands, their performance and how we can take Fristads in a positive direction.
The results of the survey will steer Fristads’ ongoing investment in developing products that meet the needs of the market and providing our partners with the tools and the support they need for successful sales.
Kwintet Fristads AB has been ISO 9001 accredited since 1999.
Here is the ISO 9001-certificate as PDF to download:
3. Product assurance
There are no shortcuts to high quality. Fristads’ attention to detail is well known and applies to everything from the outer fabric to the smallest seam. This results in a garment that maintains the highest quality on all levels – feel, comfort, design and durability. Fristads’ founder John Magnuson’s motto was “twice the wear is half the price”. This still holds true for us today.
Different requirements are also set for the properties of fabrics for different occupational groups. Together with leading fabric producers we develop material, e.g. our renowned FAS® fabric, for the highly specialised requirements of different industries. Functional, comfortable and great-looking garments are the result of painstaking development work. This draws on a long tradition and years of experience in work clothes, textile expertise and cooperation with users. Our design department also develops and adapts collections for companies with specific needs.
Listening to the people who wear our clothes every day is an important element in development. Our ‘testers’ give us an opportunity to constantly change and improve our products to meet new requirements arising in today’s working environments.
Abrasion resistance, tear strength, tensile strength, colourfastness and shrinking are just some of the many tests carried out in our laboratory. We constantly check our materials using the same methods as independent testing institutions.