Footwear manufacturers will be able to pick up on product design flaws in a fraction of the usual time, according to footwear testing firm SATRA, thanks to its new footwear ageing protocol.

If a shoe is going to fail and a manufacturer likely to see returns, this typically happens in the first or second month of wear. SATRA’s new system combines several ageing techniques to form a method of ageing footwear in a matter of days rather than months, enabling design or manufacturing deficiencies to be anticipated.

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