Packaging

Packaging plays an essential role in promoting, protecting and transporting your products. Inadequate testing of package design or materials can result in costly damage and tarnish your brand’s reputation. Failure to comply with regulations often triggers fines and delays.

SGS packaging services offer a full range of testing and certification solutions to assist clients in the design, review and development of primary, secondary and transport packaging:

• Performance testing under transportation conditions
• Physical performance and chemical properties of all your packaging materials
• Food contact testing for materials intended to come in contact with foodstuffs
• FSC certification

Our services cover a wide range of materials including paper, paperboard, corrugated, rigid plastics, textiles, glass, ceramic, silicone and allied packaging products.

Armed with extensive industry knowledge and technical expertise, SGS also offers technical consultancy, training, product defect analysis and sustainability services such as eco-labeling, life cycle assessment, ecodesign diagnosis, carbon footprint analysis, etc. Our packaging services are available to companies across a range of industries such as textiles, toys, electronics, food contact, furniture, medical/pharmaceutical and can be tailored to meet your specific needs.

With a network of international accredited laboratories and experts with in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge testing methodologies and packaging regulations, SGS  can test your package according to CPSIA, ISTA, TAPPI, ASTM, ISO, ANSI, UNDOT, TPCH, REACH, etc.

With SGS’s packaging services, you can ensure your packaging protects products, complies with regulations, reduces product loss and controls environmental issues in the distribution of your products.