Packaging Testing

What is Packaging Testing?

While a product may be well designed for operation in its intended location, how it gets from point of origin to point of use has the potential to cause damage and degradation due to stresses in handling, transportation and supply chain hazards.

The packaging in which a product ships has to withstand potential physical and environmental exposures from manual or automatic handling, storage and stacking, transport vibration from road, rail, sea or air transport, potential for fall/drop, as well as hot, cold or humid conditions.

The importance of protecting products from a myriad of consumer delivery mechanisms is greater than ever. Pre-shipment distribution testing offers a valuable understanding of packaged-product performance. These testing processes enable organisations and their people to minimise product damage through distribution and optimise resource usage through effective package design.

In some sectors, product is designed to be transported to point of use throughout its lifetime, often in harsh environments. Robust and effective package handling and transit systems are required.

Packaging testing can help you ensure that your product arrives in a fit state for use!

How can Resonate Testing Ltd. help you?

Resonate Testing can help you gain the confidence that your product packaging will be resistant to structural or environmental damage during transit.

Testing will help evaluate packaging effectiveness, from vibration testing to simulate transportation, to free fall drop for handling, compression for simulation of stacking, and a range of temperature and humidity conditions.

Special application and customised package test programs

Resonate Testing’s capabilities across dynamic and environmental testing mean we can incorporate diverse customer requirements in the field of packaging and transportation testing.

Our altitude test can simulate air freight. Our climatic and combined climatic with dynamic testing can be applied to simulate climate conditions in different parts of the world, as well as ageing and accelerated ageing tests. Tests for special product requirements can also be accommodated, for example cold chain temperature-controlled shipping systems.

Other Packaging standards

Resonate has capabilities across the range of packaging standards. Typical standards include:

  • ASTM D4169 – Performance Testing of Shipping Containers and Systems
  • ASTM D7386 – Performance Testing of Packages for Single Parcel Delivery Systems
  • ASTM D999 – Vibration Testing of Shipping Containers
  • ASTM D4728 – Random Vibration Testing of Shipping Containers
  • IEC 60068-2-31 – Rough handling shocks
  • MIL-STD-810 Transit testing
 
  • ASTM D685 – Standard Practice for Conditioning Paper and Paper Products for Testing
  • ASTM D4332 – Standard Practice for Conditioning Containers, Packages, or Packaging Components for Testing
  • ASTM F2825 – Standard Practice for Climatic Stressing of Packaging Systems for Single Parcel Delivery
  • ASTM D6653 – Determining the Effects of High Altitude on packaging systems by vacuum method
  • IEC 60068-2-13 – Low Air pressure
  • IEC 60068-2-39 – Combined temperature with low air pressure tests

Resonate Testing is an established and experienced commercial test house meeting needs across many industry sectors by offering locally or geographically diverse customers impressive capabilities coupled with a fast turnaround model.

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This expertise and knowledge in the aerospace sector has been easily extended to various industries and other unique test applications, including electrical and mechanical product testing, packaging testing, many transportation and lifecycles tests for the MedTech industry to name but a few NSC’s experience in aerospace engineering provides a key foundation for our capabilities in test specification and certification with the result that customers can be confident of a highly professional and knowledgeable service.

Resonate Testing is part of a wider diversification and growth strategy founded upon the practical application of our engineering knowledge and experience. we have the unique position of unfettered access to the EU, UK and global markets.

With a 7500sqft facility of purpose-built test space, Resonate Testing can meet testing needs in various industries by offering locally or geographically diverse customers impressive capabilities coupled with a fast turnaround model. The facility includes a combined vibration and environmental laboratory (the only commercial facility on the Island of Ireland that can perform combined temperature and vibration testing up to 54kN), a fire test laboratory and a general mechanical test facility. Resonate Testing is UKAS accredited to ISO17025, ISTA and, as part of The Nacelle Group, certified to ISO9001:2015.

Maintaining a strong engineering team, we differentiate ourselves by demonstrating our ability to support clients fully, as a complete Test Service Facilitator.