Performance Testing for Sustainable Packaging
Our packaging experts can help you understand how changes to materials, pack design and recycled content affect packaging performance.
Changes made to improve packaging sustainability can also affect strength, barrier properties, functionality, durability and manufacturing performance. Independent testing can help you understand these trade-offs and generate reliable data to support packaging development and material selection.
Smithers can support packaging changes including lightweighting and material reduction, increased recycled content, recyclable or mono-material structures, alternative materials and changes to pack design.
Testing can help you:
- Compare existing and alternative packaging solutions
- Understand the effect of recycled content or material reduction on performance
- Check new packaging against existing specifications or performance requirements
- Identify potential weaknesses before implementation
- Investigate unexpected performance following a material or design change
Explore relevant packaging testing capabilities below, or talk to our experts about the packaging change and performance requirements you need to evaluate.
Packaging Materials Testing
Packaging Materials Testing
Our packaging materials testing experts can help you evaluate the quality, performance and suitability of raw materials and packaging, and support compliance with relevant international standards
Pack Strength and Durability Testing
Pack Strength and Durability Testing
Our packaging testing experts can help you evaluate how packs and packaging components withstand physical stresses during manufacture, handling, distribution and use.
