TechLab Tests
Only in Europe, every year, 6.5 billion € are wasted because of an improper use of packaging materials. An unstable pallet, not firmly held to the base, can constitute a difficult element to secure during the loading process. Costs come not only from the non-delivery, but they often come from additional returns to the manufacturer and from other problems linked to personnel that has to recover the damaged product, which is often thrown away to avoid even higher expenses. Our laboratory takes care of your product and works continuously to improve the transport future, reaching the optimisation of packaging and, at the same time, ensuring the best stability ever.
Accelerating sled
Thanks to our accelerating sled we are able to make different tests, simulating the worst case on every type of uneven path, whether it is by truck, train, sea or a mix of the three options.
Setting the correct stress we can assure that the product we are testing can face a determined path and come to destination without damages on their quality. Setting different measurement we can control how products react during the transportation and, analysing this reactions, we can understand strengths and weaknesses. Our instrumentation allows to immediately pursue comparative tests with different solutions, so that we can give results and optimisations in short time.
Shaking Table
The shaking table can test the pallet stability stressing the product by a circular movement around an axle.
Therefore, we can verify the product reactions while changing the test frequency and intensity, marking the weaknesses. The test is conducted following American regulations
Hexapod
Techlab is the first Company that uses a machine which can accurately reproduce any type of transport. Hexapod can recreate each type of solicitation that can happen during the transport, in each of the 6 degrees of freedom; it can register an existing path, using an accelerometer, and reproduce it removing downtimes and solicitations that do not stress the sample.
Through these totally replicable tests we can recreate REAL transport conditions in very short time, comparing different solutions in a scientific approach. With the accurate reproduction of a transport, it is possible to check the reaction of every point of the pallet, analysing how every part of it interacts with the others and considering every possible damages.
Robotester
All the film reels belonging to this section have been tested, selected and checked by our experts, who have verified their behaviour optimising it for the customer's product. A real encyclopaedia on the behaviour of the film, with replicable scientific data that can be consulted at any time.
The multi-year experience of Techlab at your service!
A flexible layout permits to simulate every wrapping machine on the market.