ALL THE QUALITY OF LEATHER AT THE SERVICE OF FASHION
Established in 2017, after 30 years of experience by its managing director in the raw leather cutting and quality control sector, Qality provides professional industrialization, research & development (R&D) and quality control (QC) services applied to the leather production industry.
These services are mainly at the disposal of brands operating in the leather goods and footwear industries.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to help our clients achieve quality standards during pre-production and ensure that agreed quality levels are maintained during all subsequent production batch supplies.
Set up by Massimiliano Tarlini, together with a team of technicians with twenty years of experience behind them, Qality’s aim is to quickly become market leader as regards the quality control of leather for the fashion industry.
LEATHER INDUSTRIALISATION, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (R&D)
Qality helps its clients tackle possible problems tied to the leather pre-production and processing cycle, or simply assists them with their different stylistic or budget requirements:
• search for new leathers consistent with the client’s style and the inputs provided by it;
• leather (new or existing) industrialization consultancy;
• supervision of raw leather development, from request to production, intervening in the fine tuning stages;
• search for alternative articles (leather countertyping) from other suitable suppliers.
LEATHER QUALITY CONTROL (QC)
• The Qality leather inspectors perform all the steps of the raw leather quality control process in a precise and dedicated way to provide clients with the highest standards in the shortest time:
• selection of production batches by means of fault control and inspection of all technical and stylistic specifications agreed between supplier and customer;
• individual skin trimming and stamping according to relative selection grade (I, II, III and reject) and inspection date;
• resistance assessment through crucial test verification (e.g.,: Martindale, Crocking, Veslic, Xenotest, Waterspot, Tape test etc);
• sending control report to client explaining checked performance levels for each article/batch/colour.
FURTHER QALITY SERVICES
At the client’s request, Qality personnel can provide support during all administration steps complementary to the raw leather Research & Development (R&D) and Quality Control (QC) service
• article cost brokerage and bargaining according to what they are to be used for;
• modelling cost and consumption control;
• back-office management for effective and quick customer-supplier communication (e.g., management of forms, orders, deadlines, etc.);
• filing of technical and stylistic data of each article, as well as industrialization stage and QC data, through the use of a specific management program.
Massimiliano Tarlini
Qality Founder and Managing Director
Qality Founder and Managing Director
Massimiliano has been working in the field of haute-couture quality since 1987: initially as Loma cutting area manager (for Aquascutum, Armani, Lagerfeld, etc.), and then as cutting and consumption manager and raw leather quality control manager for Céline Production (for Céline, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Emilio Pucci, etc.).
From 2005 to 2016 he co-founded Matheria. His main job in this case was to look after the raw leather development, industrialization and quality control team.
In view of his experience, in 2017 Massimiliano, together with his priceless and expert staff, decided to set up Qality.