URS Products and Testing

When your product arrives at your doorstep in perfect condition, you never see the journey it survived. Trains rumbling, trucks slamming into curbs, cargo planes dropping altitude, warehouse workers dropping boxes, humidity flooding containers, and temperatures swinging from freezing to scorching. Behind every undamaged product sits ISTA packaging testing—rigorous laboratory validation that proves packaging can survive the brutal reality of global distribution. The Seven ISTA Series: From Screening to Certification Series 1: Non-Simulation Integrity Performance Tests These tests challenge the integrity of the product and package combination, useful as screening tests early in the design process but not designed to simulate environmental occurrences. There are seven testing procedures: ● ISTA 1A: Integrity testing for packaged-products weighing 150 lb (68 kg) or less ● ISTA 1B: Integrity testing for packaged-products weighing over 150 lb (68 kg) ● ISTA 1C: Extended integrity test...