In the brand new TechCentre, Mosca provides customers with various test methods to test the safety of packaging. In the podcast, we talk to the man who got this centre off the ground - and has a special relationship with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Niki Lauda.
Different goods are moved from A to B every day. Various forces act on products and packaging in the process. It is important for manufacturers that their goods arrive safely and hygienically at their destination. In the TechCentre, Mosca provides customers with various test methods to test the safety of packaging. In this podcast, we talk to Johannes Alois Wieder, Sales Manager Logistics at Mosca, about the possibilities in this new TechCentre.
Episode 13: "Physics is non-negotiable"
Mosca has been carrying out inclination tests for some time. Now the company has expanded its testing options with its TechCentre. The aim is to optimise transport packaging and protect goods. What is particularly important here is that the results of the tests should be measurable.
If the inclination test already results in displacements, deformations, then you can save yourself the trouble of going on to the acceleration sled. Instead, you have to intervene and say that this can't work. If this has been passed and the customer says that they now want to see whether the packaging can withstand the EUMOS test, then you can go to the acceleration slide. This is where the exact acceleration and, above all, the braking process is documented. Then there is our vibration table. In other words, we have a hydraulic platform that we make vibrate, where you can simulate a lorry transport over several hours and see what forces act here in the vertical up and down movement. This is a very interesting, complex test, but you can immediately see what actually happens when the pallet and the products start to vibrate
Customers come with different needs. Some simply want to test their packaging, others want to optimise it or use a different packaging material. If Mosca's experts see that the transport packaging on a load unit is not sufficient, they are also obliged to point this out.
We want to make it measurable, and that is the magic word - make it measurable, document it and prove that this load unit, as it is packaged, can withstand the transport conditions. There are different testing devices depending on what the customer wants to test, for example the primary packaging, the filling material, containers, small load carriers. Can they withstand eight hours of transport and the vibrations? Or do I want to know whether the load unit I have defined is sufficient?
packaging people, the podcast from packaging journal and interpack will be published from August onwards once a month. It can be accessed via all known podcast portals, such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer or Google Podcasts and subscribed to. It is also available on the online pages of packaging journal and interpack.