Watch: How to Vet a DTF Supplier
Do we want your business? Of course we do. We would rather earn it by telling you how to evaluate any supplier — including us.
Three things to check.
1. The paperwork — and the right paperwork. Make sure there is a proper Safety Data Sheet. A number of companies are still issuing MSDSs, which have not been the federally regulated document for about a decade. If you receive an MSDS, you are looking at a supplier whose documentation has not been updated in ten years. Then actually read the SDS — check that nothing in it is something you would not want near your operators, or yourself.
2. Third-party testing, ideally in the USA. Third-party testing should not arrive as a page of characters and letters you cannot interpret. You want testing done thoroughly, by a body you can identify, confirming both quality and safety.
3. Vagueness — in the documents or from the person. If the answer is “yes, it's safe, we assure you,” that is not an answer. A verbal assurance is not a document. Keep asking until you have the paperwork in hand and you are fully confident in both the quality and the safety.
Run those three checks on every supplier you use. A supplier who is doing this properly will not be bothered by the questions — they will already have the answers on file.
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For more on how NuCoat approaches safety and compliance, explore the other resources tagged Safety & Compliance on this page.
