Mechanical Property Testing for Pet Food Packaging

Dec. 5, 2012 - PRLog -- With the development of living standard and changes of living styles, the leisure, consuming and emotional commitments are changing correspondingly. Pet industry is surging, and quality control of pet food is stricter than before. Besides the quality safety of pet food itself, the mechanical property testing for pet food packaging is drawing more attentions of manufacturers. Hereafter, a brief introduction on mechanical property testing of pet food packaging is made, with the help of Labthink auto tensile tester and heat seal tester.

The mechanical properties are the fundamental indexes for pet food product during production, transportation, shelf life and usage, etc., including tensile strength, elongation, heat seal strength and tearing strength, etc.

1-Tensile strength is termed as the biggest strength value of the pet food packaging material before breakage. Through testing, breakage resulting from packaging materials with insufficient tensile strength can be effectively observed.

Labthink XLW series of auto tensile testers (http://www.labthink.cn/en/product-index-tensile-strength-...) are specially designed for packaging industry. Testing item selection, parameter selection and the sampling process after testing are all in compliance with relevant standards. Operators only need to select testing items to complete corresponding tests. Reports with standard testing results can be produced without conversion. One tester can accomplish seven kinds of tests, including tensile strength, elongation, peeling strength, heat seal strength and tearing, etc. With the help of menu interface, corresponding tests can be selected easily. Thus, this series of tensile testers are the most professional of the industry.

2-Heat seal strength is the analytical index for heat seal performance of the heat sealed place. Inferior heat seal strength would break to failure at the sealed place and result in leakage and contamination.

Labhtink PARAM HST series of heat seal testers (http://www.labthink.cn/en/product-index-heat-seal-tester-...) are precisely monitored by mini-computers, and are designed with human friendly interface. All the core components are world famous. With the help of the above mentioned tensile testers, precise heat seal measurement of pet food packaging can be accomplished. Several types are for selection.

3-Tearing resistance property

During storage and transportation, pet food packaging may be torn to breakage by external forces. Sufficient tearing resistance strength can reduce expansion of tearing, so as to avoid breakage. Besides, tearing strength is an important index to evaluate open easiness of pet food packaging for customers.

Labthink PARAM SLY-S1 Tearing Tester (http://www.labthink.cn/en/product-index-elmendorf-tearing...) applies computer control and display, as well as computer horizontal adjusting technologies, so as to guarantee accurate and reliable testing results. The innovative Three Circle technology can help users better analyze and evaluate. It’s of the highest automatic standard and precision globally.

When the mechanical indexes are qualified, other indexes of pet food packaging should also be monitored to guarantee shelf life quality. More information, please visit http://www.labthink.cn/en or contact with Yarina Gao via trade5@labthink.cn