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Do your products get to their final destination damaged?

Do you need to demonstrate that your packaging meets the requirements of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulation (UN), ISTA, NMFTA rue 180 or 181?

Are your packaging costs too high?

Do your customers want you to test your packaging?

Do you need help to design your packaging?

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Packaging testing

Micom now offers the packaging testing services listed below. Our packaging lab is ISTA accredited (International Safe Transit Association).

These tests are included by ISTA and NMFTA (National Motor Freight Transport Association) in their test plans:

ISTA 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e, 3a, 3e, 3f, 4ab, 5b, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d
NMFTA rule 180, 181
Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulation (UN, CAN/CGSB-43.150 & 43.146)
Vibration (ASTM D 999, A1, A2)
Drop (ASTM D 5276)
Compression (ASTM D 642)
Incline Impact (ASTM D 880)
Atmospheric Conditioning (ASTM D4332) (-73°C to +150°C, 10–95% RH)
Bridge Test (ASTM D-5265)
Thermal Insulation Quality of Packages (ASTM D-3103)
Rotational Drop (ASTM D-6179)
Random vibration (ASTM D-4728)
Performance Testing of Shipping Containers and Systems (ASTM D-4169)
Packaging design & optimization

A proper packaging design will allow you to achieve the following:

Efficiently protect the package contents
Minimize rate of product return due to transport & handling failures
Increase customer satisfaction
Increase profitability

Packaging testing

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