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News Release from: Packtest
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 March 2005
New Testing Facility Opens To Commercial
Market
Paul Curtis Associates, in co-operation with Megger, the electrical test instrument manufacturer, have established Packtest, an environmental, materials and product and pack test facility.
Paul Curtis Associates, in co-operation with Megger, the electrical test instrument manufacturer, have established Packtest, an environmental, materials and product and pack test facility Packtest is equipped with LAB fixed displacement and random vibration tables, an LAB precision drop tester, Instron, Chatillon and Lloyd Instruments tensile testing machines, and an RDE Bump Test Machine
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Packtest said that with its equipment, products and packs can be tested to the standard required by ISTA, BS, EN, ISO, DEF STD, MIL, IEC and other worldwide industry, mail order and trade standards.
The business can also offer additional testing, such as Cobb Water Absorption, Taber Stiffness, Mullen Burst, moisture and adhesive peel, amongst others.
The company is currently a member of the ISTA but it is not yet fully accredited to that or other groups, as Packtest's facility was built up primarily for its own internal use.
However, formal test procedures are followed and accreditation will be sought in the very near future, added the company.
As a result, its facilities to its existing clients and others, are being offered for general screening tests and mensuration, at short notice and at what have been described as considerably reduced rates compared to other facilities.
Packtest's current clients include Hozelock plc, Baxi Fires Division, Flambeau Europlast and Heatrae Sadia.
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