Packaging materials

Packaging materials

Paper and Packaging Laboratory was the newly developed testing lab in the ITI with high tech equipment. Paper and Packaging Laboratory provides testing services to paper, boards, plastic films, sacks and packaging materials for their physical parameters. Paper and packaging laboratory follow international and local standards such as ISO, SLS, BS, EN and ASTM for their testing methods. In addition to standardize services, customize services are also provided by the lab.

 

Laboratories

 

Paper and packaging laboratory is a single lab to support various testing services. This laboratory consists of various modern high tech instruments to facilitate testing services.

 

Instruments

 

Water Vapor Transmission Rate Tester

Brightness Tester

Thickness Tester

Box Compression Tester

Tensile Tester

Leak Tester

Hot Tack Tester

Digital Torque Tester

Puncture resistance tester

Tearing strength tester

Ink rub tester

Bursting machine

Cobb tester

Environmental Chamber

Services

Accredited Test Services of paper and board

The accredited test services are accredited by Sri Lanka Accreditation Board (SLAB) with ISO 17025:2017. All testing equipment are regularly checked using reference standard materials and intermediate checks to ensure the accuracy of test results.  Accredited test services are;

 

Testing Area                Accredited parameter Relevant Standard
Paper and board
  • Tensile strength
  • Tensile index
  • Stretch at break
  • Tensile energy absorption
  • Tensile energy absorption index
  •  SLS 474-2:2009
  • ISO 1924-2:2008
  • Grammage / Weight of paper / GSM
  • SLS 338:2020
  • Thickness
  • SLS 1370:2016
  • ISO 534:2011
  • Absorption of water (Cobb value)
  • SLS 1270:2016
  • ISO 535:2014

 

Other test services

Paper and packaging laboratory supports industry in quality control to achieve their goals successfully through carried out test services. Our test services area follow below international and local standards. All testing equipment are regularly checked using reference standard materials and intermediate checks to ensure the accuracy of test results.

  • ISO
  • SLS
  • British Standards (BS)
  • European Standards (EN)
  • American Standards (ASTM)

 

Paper and packaging laboratory

 

Testing Area Parameters
Craft papers
  • Grammage
  • Thickness
  • Tensile properties
  • Tear strength
  • Air resistance
  • Bursting
  • Ink rub test
Corrugated boards
  • Grammage
  • Thickness
  • Box compression
  • Bursting
  • Edge crush
  • Puncture resistance
Papers
  • Grammage
  • Thickness
  • Tensile properties
  • Tear strength
  • Moisture content
  • Ash content
  • Brightness
  • Opacity
  • Water absorptiveness
Plastic films
  • Grammage
  • Thickness
  • Tensile properties
  • Tear strength
  • Water vapor transmission
  • Gas permeability
  • Puncture resistance
  • Dart impact test
  • Ceiling strength
  • Ink rub test
Sacks
  • Dimensions
  • Grammage
  • Thickness
  • Tensile properties
  • Tear strength
  • Air resistance
  • Bursting
  • Ink rub test

 

Accredited Test Services of paper and boards

The accredited test services are accredited by Sri Lanka Accreditation Board (SLAB) with ISO 17025:2017. All testing equipment are regularly checked using reference standard materials and intermediate checks to ensure the accuracy of test results.  Accredited test services are;

 

Customizes Services

Materials Laboratory provides customized solutions for problems in industrial process, product developments, improvements and preparation of specification for products.

 

  • Test services for researches

 

Materials Laboratory provides test services for researches according to the customer requirement.

 

Contacts

 

Mr. A A M T Adikari
Director / Principal Research Engineer
Ms. M V K Munasinghe
Research Scientist