Packaging plays an essential role in promoting, protecting, and transporting your products.  Inadequate testing of package design or materials can result in costly damage and tarnish your brand’s reputation. Failure to comply with regulations often triggers fines and delays.

SGS packaging services offer a full range of testing and certification solutions to assist clients in the design, review, and development of primary, secondary, and transport packaging:

• Performance testing under transportation conditions
• Physical performance and chemical properties of all your packaging materials
• Food contact testing for materials intended to come in contact with foodstuffs
• FSC certification

Our services cover a wide range of materials including paper, paperboard, corrugated, rigid plastics, textiles, glass, ceramic, silicone, and allied packaging products.

Why choose Packaging testing from SGS?

We can help you:

• Gain reliable testing data to make sound business decisions or solve challenging problems
• Reconcile supplier-buyer conflicts and confirm product specifications
• Identify an appropriate testing protocol that may help you solve a pressing issue
• Develop paper testing methods to meet your needs, including non-routine paper and paperboard testing services
• Test for recyclability, food contact, migration testing, odor analysis, heavy metals, trace organics, physical properties or defect analysis
• Access a wide range of testing capabilities for nonwoven materials and products - from flushability to fiber analysis
• Develop competitive intelligence through reverse engineering
• Access backup services at peak times
• Assist with U.S. Lacey Act compliance, providing fiber analysis as part of “Due Care”

We can provide a wide range of services, including:

• ASTM, NWSP, AATCC and TAPPI test methods
• Analytical testing
• Defect/failure analysis
• Fiber testing
• Odor analysis
• Repulpability 
• Recyclability
• Reverse engineering
• Sustainability measures
• Incontinence product testing
• National brand equivalency testing
• Flushability testing
• Troubleshooting
• Product component analysis 
• Patent/litigation support

With SGS’s packaging services, you can ensure your packaging protects products, complies with regulations, reduces product loss, and controls environmental issues in the distribution of your products.