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US bottler installs Safe Load test lab
Safe Load Testing Technologies has kitted out an in-house package testing laboratory for a US-based beverage multinational, with installed units including drop test, horizontal stability test, compression and tilt test equipment.

Alberto Tellechea, CEO of the Spanish company, says that increasing numbers of food and beverage multinationals, stretch film and distribution packaging manufacturers have been investing in their own transport simulation laboratories.
 
“As a result, companies are able to optimize their packaging, improve load stability and meet, not only industry requirements and regulatory standards, but also their sustainability goals, reducing costs and CO2 emissions,” he explains.
 
With the drop test, the customer opted for the SF-DP100 model, which allows it to run tests on packages of up to 100kg in weight. Obstacles can be inserted for the load to impact against, while the release mechanism prevents the supports from interfering with its freefall.
 
The compression tester can be applied to tertiary packaging, such as film-wrapped pallet loads, secondary packaging, including shrink-wrapped collations of bottles, and the single-bottle primary packaging.
 
To monitor horizontal stability, the customer installed the innSlide system, which is able to simulate the accelerations and decelerations occurring mostly during road transportation. The results can help in the evaluation of all three levels of packaging: primary, secondary and tertiary, says Safe Load. The unit also allows for the types of acceleration test required by some international standards.
 
Horizontal stability testing

Complementing innSlide are the innSlide SET test software, which allows bespoke and non-standard simulation tests to be designed, and inVision ST vision-based analysis software.
 
Finally, the tilt testing tool is applied to palletized unit loads in order to optimize the entire system and maximize safety during handling and transport.
 
 
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Published: 11/26/21