Packaging Material Trials & Seal Testing
Greener Corporation’s Technical Specialists help you run trials, seal test packages, and solve problems with traditional and sustainable flexible packaging materials.
We work with packagers, material suppliers, converters, and machinery OEMs at their facility or in our expanded Packaging Research & Training Center, where we run trials and seal test packages with your materials on our flow wrapper and vertical FFS bagger. We simulate your production speeds and conditions to determine the machine adjustments and sealing jaw designs that optimize package quality and throughput. Greener’s trial and testing process yields accurate, real world results that are more dependable than tests using bench-top sealers.
For new sustainable and hard-to-seal materials, we will determine the machine adjustments and sealing jaw design that will allow you to meet throughput and seal quality requirements on your existing wrappers or baggers, eliminating the need to upgrade or replace machines.
Objectives
Your Current Packaging Material
- Solve ongoing problems
- Determine your material’s seal integrity and machine speed capabilities
New Flexible Packaging Materials
- Evaluate seal quality and machine speed capabilities of potential new materials
- Determine the material structure that best meets your goals to meet sustainability criteria, reduce material costs, improve seal quality, and/or increase machine speeds throughput
Methodology
Machine Trials
- At your facility on your machinery, or with your packaging materials on the flow wrapper or vertical bagger in our Packaging Center, where we simulate your production speeds and conditions
Sealing Jaw Analysis
- When working in Greener’s Packaging Center, trials for each material are run with a variety of different sealing jaws to determine which jaw design optimizes seal quality and machine speed
Package Seal Testing
- Vacuum Decay Test for Seal Integrity
- Seal Strength / Burst Resistance Test
- Microscopic Evaluation
- Water vacuum
- Dye Test
Real World Results
Manufacturing Seal Range
- Reported for each packaging material with each different sealing jaw design
- Manufacturing Seal Range indicates the maximum machine speed that will maintain proper seal integrity in a production setting
- More accurate and dependable than Laboratory Seal Range from a bench-top sealer, which may not reflect your packaging conditions
Goal Achievement Analysis
- Real world results are evaluated against objectives to determine which combination of packaging material and sealing jaw design provides the optimal results
Why Trials of Flexible Packaging Materials Fail When They Don’t Need To
Whether you need to improve results with existing materials or convert to new or sustainable structures, flow wrapper specialist Jeff Fouche, vertical bagger and packaging materials specialist Steve Tucker, and the rest of our technical team will work at your facility or in our Packaging Center to help you determine which machine adjustments, component designs, and packaging material structures will optimize your package quality and productivity.
Flexible Packaging Material Trials and Testing are part of our comprehensive, integrated strategy for improving packaging performance. Greener Corporation provides parts for cutting, sealing, and forming integrated with our technical service solutions to help you optimize package quality and productivity in your packaging operation.