Design & Testing

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.

Extremely Sensitive G Factor
20G
Type of product
Precision instruments with fine
mechanical bearings
Very Sensitive 20-40G Disk Drives
Sensitive 40-60G VDUs electronic equipment
Moderately Sensitive 60-80G Optical equipment
Fairly sensitive 85-110G Small domestic appliances, china, glass
Non sensitive 110G+ Engineering parts, bottles

 

 

 

 

 

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

Packaged-Product Weight Drop Height Impact Velocity
Equal to or
greater than
But Less than Free Fall Incline or Horizontal
lb kg lb kg in mm ftte rrv's
0 0 21 10 30 760 13 39
21 10 41 19 24 610 11 35
41 19 61 28 18 460 10 30
61 28 100 45 12 310 80 25
100 45 150 68 8 200 66 20

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Packing Sequence

Interactive Packaging Solutions Limited (IPS Ltd) design effective packaging solutions to Provide protection & cushioning for products which are design precisely and can be tested. Cushioning materials used for impact protection or foam protection such as polystyrene, polyurethane, polyethylene, corrugated cardboard, timber, plywood, crates, freight forwarding, IPSM15 compliant, moulded foam.