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Advanced Packaging
Technology Laboratories, Inc.
Both primary (consumer) packages and shipping containers have a risk of being dropped or being impacted by other items.
Package integrity and product protection are important packaging functions. Tests are conducted to measure the resistance of packages and products to controlled laboratory shock and impact.
Testing also determines the effectiveness of package cushioning to isolate fragile products from shock. Instrumentation is used to measure the shock transmitted to a cushioned product.
Advanced Packaging Testing Laboratories can provide relevant tests to ensure your
product arrives safely at its destination.
- ASTM D880- Standard Test Method for Impact Testing for Shipping Containers and Systems
- ASTM D1596- Standard Test Method for Dynamic Shock Cushioning Characteristics of Packaging Materials
- ASTM D3332- Standard Test Methods for Mechanical-Shock Fragility of Products, Using Shock Machines
- ASTM D4003- Standard Test Methods for Programmable Horizontal Impact Test for Shipping Containers and Systems
- ASTM D5265- Standard Test Method for Bridge Impact Testing
- ASTM D5276- Standard Test Method for Drop Test of Loaded Containers by Free Fall
- ASTM D5277- Standard Test Method for Performing Programmed Horizontal Impacts Using an Inclined Impact Tester
- ASTM D5487- Standard Test Method for Simulated Drop of Loaded Containers by Shock Machines
Shock Testing
- ASTM D6344- Standard Test Method for Concentrated Impacts to Transport Packages
- ASTM D6537- Standard Practice for Instrumented Package Shock Testing For Determination of Package Performance