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Packaging QA/QC Applications

Create High Quality Packaging Systems

Packaging is the most important factor in protecting goods from damage. QA/QC helps ensure that your packaging is up to standard and that your products are appropriately protected. Quality control (QC) is product-oriented and focuses on defect detection, while quality assurance (QA) is process-oriented and focuses on defect prevention.

Common QA/QC issues that challenge manufacturers can include:

Customer Demands
- Shelf Life
- Convenience Features
- High-Quality Graphics
- New Shapes & Sizes
Rising Costs of Raw Materials

Packaging designs are evolving rapidly to keep up with the innovations in the products they protect. With the drive towards new innovative packaging technologies, sustainable packaging, resealability, and light-weighting, there are high demands on package quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC). You need QA/QC tools that keep up with the pace of new packaging.

Here at AMETEK MOCON our high precision package testing instruments coupled with our product and applications experts provide you the packaging system QA/QC you need. Being an industry leader in whole package permeability testing, package integrity and leak detection, headspace gas monitoring and control, we have the up-to-date QA/QC tools to ensure your package systems work.

We have worked with consumer product groups, food companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and more, to monitor the quality of finished packages. From breathable to ultra-high barrier packaging, to package closures, and package components, we have the experts and the instruments to bring QA/QC to your packaging lines.

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Finished Package QA

Quality Assurance ensures every package is monitored during production. We offer on-line modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) gas analyzers and gas mixing controls to ensure the MAP gas concentrations in every package is at specification.

Finished Package QC

Finished package quality control ensures your packaging system is working and your product is protected. We offer package testing instruments that measure whole package permeability, package integrity, package leaks and gas composition in modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). We have the tools and experts to help you with your package QC.

MAP Gas QA Monitoring & Control

Quality Assurance ensures every MAP package you make is monitored during production. We offer on-line modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) gas analyzers and gas mixing controls to ensure the MAP gas concentrations in every package is at specification.

Maintaining precise gas composition in your gas flushed MAP packages is critical to protecting your packaged products. We offer headspace MAP gas analyzers and Package Leak Detectors to ensure your packages were made right before they ship out to the market. We have the MAP gas QC tools you need.

Packaging Material QC Testing

Packaging materials should be checked for barrier properties before and after conversion into a final package. We provide permeation analyzers for quality control of your packaging materials as films and after conversion into packages. Our high-throughput permeation analyzers are used to help with quality control of packaging films for large-scale production; and our whole package permeation analyzers are used to help with QC of final packages.

Packaging Machine Mold QC Testing

Packaging machine molds are expensive to change, so you want to use it to the very end of its useful life. Our whole package permeation analyzers offer an ability to monitor the barrier quality of your molded packages like trays, so you know when your trays are about to go out of barrier specification. We have the tools and experts to help you with your packaging machine mold QC.

Package Component Testing

Testing a critical component of a packaging system is a routine part of quality control. We offer permeation testing services and analyzers to measure the barrier performance of your package component.

Package Closure or Dispenser Testing

Package closures and dispensers are the weak points in many packaging systems. We offer package testing tools that measure the permeation through closures and dispensers, and package leak detectors that can determine package integrity issues with these package components.

Package Integrity Testing Solutions

Package integrity testing after production is a key factor in knowing whether your processes are under control. We offer package testing instruments that measure whole package permeability, package burst/creep limits, package leaks and gas composition in modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). We have the tools and experts to help you with your package integrity testing to ensure your process is in control.

Breathable Package & Material Testing

Breathable packages require analyzers that can properly measure at the high-end of the range. We offer high oxygen transmission rate (OTR) and water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) analysis instruments to measure the permeability of high transmission rate packages.

Ultra-high Barrier Package Testing

Permeation Analysis of ultrahigh barrier packages requires the highest performance permeation analyzers to reach the low levels of gas transmission these packages establish. We offer Whole Package Permeation Analyzers with the lowest limits of detection for water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) and oxygen transmission rate (OTR) testing. Test your ultrahigh barrier packages right.