Packaging

Timber Testing

Our Mutare branch specialises in timber and wood products testing. A wide variety of tests to relevant standards specifications are carried out:

• Structural timber, (shear, tensile, delamination, bending, density, moisture content tests)
• Board products (including doors, mosaic flooring, plywood blockboard, fibre and particle board)
• Finger joint timber
• Transmission, telephone and fencing poles/droppers
• Laminated wood products
• High density scafflan
• Doors, moisture resistance tests

 

Packaging 

A wide variety of tests is carried out on packaging materials such as paper, glass, wood, leather, plastic, metal, etc.., as well as on packaging containers.

• Aging
• Vulcanizing
• Tensile properties
• Bursting strength
• Shore hardness
• Edge crush resistance
• Pressure tests
• Flat crush resistance
• Plasticity
• Ring crush resistance
• Moisture resistance
• Grammage
• Chemical resistance
• Thickness measurement
• Impact
• Paper hardness
• Heat reversion
• Ashman-hydrometer calibration
• Rigidity
• Crease-stiffness
• Box compression
• Tear resistance
• Water absorption and transmission
• pH of paper and pulp