Q&A: Closure Testing and Packaging Performance

Q&A: Closure Testing and Packaging Performance

Your questions answered: Closure testing, packaging performance, and seal integrity

Closures play a critical role in protecting products and maintaining pack integrity, but changes to closure design, materials and packaging formats can introduce new performance challenges.

Our expert Q&A explores the practical considerations behind closure testing, helping packaging teams understand where testing can add value when developing new closures, investigating performance issues or validating packaging changes. 

What you'll learn

  • How closure testing can help support pack integrity and identify potential performance risks
  • When testing can add value when developing or validating new closure designs and materials
  • How torque, bite, and tamper-evident testing can help assess closure functionality
  • How packaging changes, sustainability requirements and evolving regulations can influence closure performance

Smithers combines packaging testing expertise with recognised test methods to support closure development, troubleshooting and validation, helping packaging teams generate evidence around closure functionality, seal integrity and overall pack performance.

Explore our closure testing capabilities