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Transportation Testing for Corrugated Packaging

Georgia-Pacific’s Innovations Institute features package design services and its Transportation Testing Lab, where corrugated packaging ‘is put through the gauntlet.’

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Located outside of Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific Corrugated’s Innovation Institute® is a collaborative environment dedicated to helping customers build their brand, improve their operations, and optimize their packaging, and it was the topic of the company’s PACK EXPO Connects demo on Tuesday. As the company’s video shared, the Innovation Institute offers state-of-the-art packaging design and testing, including rapid prototyping and full-range preconditioning of materials prior to testing. In addition, a simulated retail space allows customers to see finished product on the shelf.

The facility also includes Georgia-Pacific’s Transportation Testing Lab, where the company says it puts customers’ packaging “through the gauntlet.” Said the demo narrator, “Simulating different types of supply chain events to make sure our packaging holds up, this laboratory is maintained at TAPPI test conditions and has the capability to simulate all the forces encountered by either individual packages, or full pallets of product during handling, transportation, and warehousing.”

Tests performed at the lab include the following:

·     The 50,000lb Compression Test is used to understand the top-to-bottom compression strength of full pallets of product, large bulk bins, or very high compression-strength packing. It is one of the primary tests in many of the ISTA transportation test protocols.

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