Korea Textile Inspection & Testing Institute(KOTITI) has been expanding its business area into testing hardware and environmental hazardous substances etc. To activate our new business line and promote discriminatively, KOTITI concluded memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Matalan on 18, January 19, 2012. Matalan is one of the UK’s leading clothing and homewares retailer, offering quality fashion and homewares at up to half the equivalent high street price. Matalan owns more than 200 stores all around the UK and also it holds own private label product lines such as Be Beau, Et Vous, Rogers & Rogers. To conclude MOU between KOTITI and Matalan, David Mellett, Executive Director of Matalan has visited KOTITI. David Mellett is the corporate purchasing & technical director of Matalan. The ceremony began with the greeting conversation at chairman’s room, and continued to the lab tour. Especially our up to date technology, such as X-sweat which absorbs human sweat immediately on the inner side of fabric and simultaneously exhausts the humidity to the other surface of the fabric, Duocool which reflects the water on the outer side of the fabric and simultaneously absorbs the sweat on the inner side of the fabric and our state of the art pilot facilities were introduced to David Mellett. He expressed deep interest in our high techniques and pilot facilities. After lab tour, the official MOU signing ceremony has begun. At the MOU ceremony, YoungRyul Kim(general director), Sangrak Lee(executive director), Joongsik Yang(head of R&D), Daechun Park(executive director of Goodman Co., Ltd), and David Mellett(executive director of Matalan) have attended the ceremony. To make a solid relationship and cooperation in the area of quality control of consumer products between two parties, they agreed below articles; - Cooperation on the area of quality control of textile and hardware - Supporting troubleshooting services related to textile products production - Cooperation for mutual development This MOU will be recorded as meaningful agreement which will lead KOTITI to global market. By recent MOU with Matalan, KOTITI is looking forward to build confident partnership with Matalan and provide sustaining relationship with customers. KOTITI will do utmost effort to promote customer’s value. Thank you.