Shipping Package Testing
Package testing is the simulated process of distribution and storage of products and their packages that need to travel from the manufacturer to the end user.
Packages can be described as an exterior container, cushioning or protection material and/or the product itself.
Package testing is relevant for clients who want to consistently deliver their products to market on-time and in compliance with industry regulations. It is the manufacturer’s responsibility to evaluate each package's ability to protect the product inside throughout the handling, distribution, and storage environment.
Package fragility is a concern for most of our clients. Sypris can simulate virtually every condition packages will undergo in a warehouse or distribution processes.
The two most popular situations are shipping and storage.
- Shipping – Sypris can simulate various vibrations, temperatures and unpressurized altitudes products encounter.
- Storage – Sypris can simulate various conditions that happen during storage such as stacking, impact/shock and dropping.
- Sypris also tests to unique requirements or special environmental circumstances such as fungus, salt fog or UV/Sunlight exposure.
All these tests enable our customers to make effective interpretations about the integrity of their packaging. Our goal is for your packages to reach your customers in an acceptable condition.
To determine which tests are appropriate for your package system, you will consider a combination of factors including regulatory requirements, applicable standard(s) or test procedures, mode of transport, type and category of product in the container, size and shape of the container, and the material the container is made of.
Testing your packaging before it goes to your customers can save you money, reduce your liability, increase your credibility and professionalism with your clients.
Sypris Test & Measurement serves leading companies and government agencies with a wide array of package testing services, including:
- Bounce
- Compression, Machine
- Compression, Dead Weight
- Drop Test
- Vehicle Simulation
- Fragility
- Storage Test
- Thermal Shipper Validation
- Shipping
- Label Rub & Peel
- Stacking
- Vibration (sinusoidal/random)
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Sypris is certified by the International Safe Transport Association (ISTA): the body that has designed a rigorous program of package and transportation tests to provide a laboratory simulation of the damage-producing forces and conditions of transport environments. Sypris is also compliant with a variety of industry-specific standards, including:
When you choose Sypris for our package testing services, you also leverage our more than 40 years of component and product testing experience. And, you benefit from the precision, rigor and exceptional service that have become hallmarks of Sypris Test & Measurement.
Contact a Sypris package testing representative today by calling our toll-free hotline: 800-839-4959. Or, view contact information for our regional sales managers and laboratories.