Product Packaging Testing

Packaging testing encompasses a broad range of specific tests designed to assess the suitability of packaging materials intended for use with a given product. Packaging tests typically simulate anticipated mechanical and climatic conditions that packaging may encounter, and can include:

• Vibration testing - for both random and sinusoidal vibrations
• Shock testing - to address unexpected impacts
• Compression testing - to determine the strength of packaging and to ensure the safety of stacked loads
• Side impact testing - for carton or palletized loading, unloading and shunting
• Tilt testing - to evaluate product stability
• Environmental stress testing - to evaluate the impact of temperature, humidity and thermal cycling

Reliable packaging is an essential part of your product offering. Packaging testing provides assurances that your packaging will protect your product from damage or degradation during the transportation and distribution process. Packaging testing can also reduce packaging costs by identify appropriate protection levels and reducing the amount of required packaging materials.

TÜV SÜD offers a full range of services for packaging testing that replaces the mechanical and climatic conditions that products may encounter during transportation and storage. As part of our testing programmes, we can determine a product’s susceptibility to damage so that an appropriate level of packaging protection is used. In addition to reducing the risk of damage to products in transit, we can also provide advice on possible cost savings through the removal of excess or unnecessary packaging.

TÜV SÜD’s extensive experience, wide range of capabilities and state-of-the-art testing equipment enables us to test different types of packaging and packaging materials to ensure that they meet industry requirements as well as the application-specific demands. Packaging testing services include:

TÜV SÜD testing facilities have been accredited by the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) to certify that packaging complies with current ISTA specifications.

TÜV SÜD is a leading provider of comprehensive testing and certification services. Our global network of technical experts, combined with our state-of-the-art testing laboratories, assure a single source solution for meeting all applicable requirements, standards and voluntary schemes. And TÜV SÜD technical professionals are actively involved in international advisory boards and standards development activities, ensuring the most up-to-date knowledge of current and changing requirements.

Represented in over 800 locations worldwide, TÜV SÜD has an unsurpassed track record of meeting and exceeding the requirements and expectations of our client companies. The TÜV SÜD brand and our distinctive blue octagon mark are instantly recognised around the globe as symbols of quality and safety, and will increase customer confidence in your brand.