Package Testing
Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells.
Package testing or packaging testing involves the measurement of a characteristic involved with packaging. This includes packaging materials, packaging components, primary packages, shipping containers, and unit loads, as well as the associated processes.
Testing measures the effects and interactions of the levels of packaging, the package contents, external forces, and end-use.
Why to test a package?
Package testing might have a variety of purposes, such as:
- Predict in a laboratory, the performance of a package during distribution and the use by customers.
- Help solve problems with current packaging.
- Validate suitability for end-use.
- Help identify potential cost savings in packaging.
With distribution packaging, one vital packaging development consideration is to determine if a packaged-product is likely to be damaged in the process of getting to the final customer. A primary purpose of a package is to ensure the safety of a product during transportation and storage. If a product is damaged during this process, then the package has failed to accomplish a primary objective and the customer will either return the product or be unlikely to purchase the product altogether.
We are fully equipped to support all of the ISTA and ASTM D4169 Test Protocols.
Package Performance Testing :: Environmental Testing :: Medical Device Package Testing