Over a period of last 41 years, the Indian Institute of Packaging has been able to establish the well equipped laboratories for testing of various packaging aterial and packages at its principal laboratory at Mumbai and also its branch offices at Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and Hyderabad. This has become possible only due to the continuous efforts taken by the Institute for the up-gradation of Laboratory facilities by way of installing microprocessor based testing equipment (mostly imported) in the laboratory. This step has definitely resulted in significant investment in the testing laboratory and all these investments
have been made during the last couple of years with the financial assistance from Ministry of Commence and Industry, Government of India. Today, the Institute is proud to announce that the laboratory has got the facility for testing of over 300 parameters covering the different areas like mechanical, chemical and physico chemical properties of packaging materials and packages. All these facilities are made available at its principal laboratory at Mumbai. However, attempts have also been taken to upgrade similar testing facilities to all other branch offices including the new center at Hyderabad. Every year, more sophisticated natured testing equipments are imported and the same are also installed to expand the horizon of testing facilities and thus, today the Institute is being considered as a ‘Single Window’ for providing the services of almost all types of testing of packaging materials and packages. However, special care is also taken while selecting the testing equipment for up-gradation of laboratory facilities. In some cases, it is observed that indigenous testing equipments are unable to provide accurate and consistent test values as per national as well as international standards. In such cases, the imported testing equipment with the ‘State of art technology’ is procured with multidimensional facilities so that the same equipment can be used for diversified application.