Testing Services

CONTRACT TESTING PROJECTS

Due to limited capacity, additional fee-for-service testing projects cannot be accepted at this time.

The School of Packaging can perform a variety of package and material property tests on a fee-for-service, contract basis.

Testing projects examine packages and their components following standardized protocols developed by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Safe Transit Association (ISTA), and Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI).

Our distribution dynamics laboratory is an ISTA-certified test lab.

Some of the tests we can perform include:

Film material characterization (e.g. gas permeability, tensile strength & elongation, dart impact resistance)
Package integrity and seal strength
Shock, vibration, and compression testing
Weathering/UV Testing
Coefficient of friction (paper and plastic)
Paper tensile properties
Postal service pallet testing
Sample table cutting of client-supplied design files