Protective Packaging Design : Manufacturers lavish great care on both the functional and aesthetic design of a product and the packaging is considered as an afterthought.  At IPS Ltd, we supply the care and functionality in the design of packaging for your product.

Our design criteria are based on the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) test protocols (http://www.ista.org/). Thus during a design brief we need to consider the following factors;

 1. Product fragility: Knowing how fragile a product is helps us determine the level of packaging needed to protect it, below is a guide to the level of fragility that we use when the customer can not give precise information.

2. Static stress loading: Load Per unit of area applied to a body.

3. Unit Weight: The weight of the product will determine the estimate drop height that the product maybe tested too under ISTA conditions

Thus a unit weighing between 10 and 19kg maybe dropped from a height of 610mm in a free fall scenario.

4. General Information

Aesthetic Packaging: Packaging is primarily there to protect a product; however, other functions may be equally important to our customers.  Marketing, corporate identity and communicating information are all significant considerations. We are fully aware of the important role played by good packaging presentation and we can assist with the design in these areas.

We are proud of our design process, manufacturing facilities and our considerable experience in using a variety of materials. This experience allows us to propose the optimum cost effective solution to your packaging problem.

Clearly, such factors as static stress, destination and climatic conditions are also important considerations in the design of packaging and may prompt us to propose the use of ‘Shock Watches’, ‘Tilt Watches’, desiccant and other protective measures.