Packaging durability is a critical factor for protecting items from the pressure of transportation, handling, and storage in a globalized market today. Packaging failure is one of the most common complaints that either manufacturers or retailers face. Amongst the supply chain, broken products, crushed boxes, or even damaged goods are met with frequent incidents. This leads to frustration, expensive replacements, and, worst of all, possible damage to the brand name. Most of these issues have been attributed to the strength of the packaging, which does not withstand enough pressure to protect the product.
These are the problems in reality that explain why the durability test should be substantial to avoid such failure and why products should reach consumers safely. This is where the Top Load Tester comes into use.
A Top Load Tester is designed to be a critical test tool for simulating compressive forces that packages undergo during storage and transit. The tester provides controlled weight or force on the top of a package in order to its structural integrity due to pressure. It replicates the conditions for stacking, which a package experiences in real-life cases, and aids manufacturers in determining weaknesses in either packaging materials or design that may lead to failure.
The name Presto is well recognized all over the world in the field of laboratory testing instrumentation, emphasizing quality, innovation, and reliability. For more than four decades, Presto has become a leader in providing innovative solutions for packaging, material, and product testing and services in all types of industries such as packaging and plastics, automotive, electronics, and pharmaceuticals, among many more.
We are equipping our sophisticated testing equipment, including Top Load Testers, Edge Crush Testers, Color Measurement Instruments, and more, to meet the demands of modern manufacturing and packaging processes.
The working of a Top Load Tester is quite simple, yet effectively serves the purpose. The packaged item is placed on the platform of the Top Load Tester, and an applied load on top of the packaged item simulates all the stacking and compression events that the item may experience while in shipment. In a slow increase process, the load is applied to test the pressure resistance capability of the packaging before failure.
The tester measures the amount of weight that the package can hold before it collapses, deforms or causes damage to the products. This process can very accurately replicate all kinds of shipping and storage conditions, starting from light handling to extreme compression forces.
Additionally, the testing can be done for various packaging materials, plastic, glass, etc., and other types of packages in order that the appropriate stressors will be applied to each specific product.
Across the globe, organizations in various fields require Top Load Testing to ensure that their packaging systems can tolerate the harsh rigors of transportation and storage. Here is just one example:
Food and Beverages: Packaging for bottles and cans must be able to endure pallet stacking in the warehouse and during shipment without cracking or crushing.
Electronics: Fragile products such as televisions and smartphones require packaging that can withstand heavy loads without breaking or shattering during impacts when in transit.
Pharmaceuticals: Any health-related product or medication requires special protection in its packaging, especially during loading.
Top Load Testing allows these industries to ensure that, on one hand, the packages are inexpensive, but also tough enough to safeguard the fragile products from the very beginning of the supply chain process.
Once the test is performed, the outcome is then analyzed to find out if the packaging can withstand the specified compressive forces without failing. A successful package will remain structurally intact; the unsuccessful one would then either exhibit deformation cracking or breakage.
Results of Top Load Testing also provide worthwhile information. Organizations can alter the material being used, redesign specific parts, or increase the strength of their packaging to make it robust and unbreakable.
There are top load testers that come with advanced features that make the testing process even more accurate:
Automatic Data Logging: The equipment can log and record test data automatically, hence accuracy and a low possibility of human error.
Load Sensors: They measure real-time forces and make it possible for manufacturers to understand where and when packaging fails.
Integration into Data Analytics Software: Some high-end versions come integrated into data analytics software. Manufacturers will be able to start analyzing and recognizing trends and patterns and make better decisions to improve the durability of packaging.
The data derived through Top Load Testing gives measurable values of the strength and durability of the packaging design. A package that withstands the compressive forces involved in the test without failing, is considered to be strong enough for real-life conditions.
Yes, Top Load Testers are tailored in such a way to test different types of packaging boxes, plastic containers, and even glass bottles. The test parameters would change based on the type of packaging material and product type.
Top load testing is done at times whenever there is a change in designs or materials of packaging. Even better, it is also performed on new productions for packaging to assess durability before mass distribution.
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