Testing and Innovation Centre: personalised support
Our Testing and Innovation Centre is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and is an integral part of CAPPI's head office. It delivers superior testing capabilities tailored to the pharmaceutical industry’s specific packaging qualification requirements.
Cutting-edge equipment
Our Testing and Innovation Center has several temperature chambers, with a capacity ranging from 600 litres to 24m³. This equipment can be used to carry out tests on packaging of various sizes, from small boxes for wholesaler/distributors, to large boxes such as the pallet shippers developed for laboratories. The chambers are mapped each year by an independent organisation to ensure that the temperatures requested by customers are complied with at every point within the chambers.
Simulating customers’ temperature profiles
CAPPI’s temperature chambers reproduce a temperature profile that matches the customer’s logistics circuit, from the loading of the insulated packaging to its opening by the final user. The chambers vary the temperatures according to time intervals or segments. Tests are carried out based on the current regulatory and normative framework in force within the pharmaceutical sector (ISTA, IATA/TCR, FDA/CGMP, GDP or WHO).
Guaranteeing the temperature performance of packaging
The purpose of the temperature tests is to check the ability of the insulated packaging to keep products within the required temperature range (e.g. +2°C/+8°C). They may be preliminary tests in anticipation of a new pharmaceutical distribution business or temperature tests in addition to the tests performed “in the field” by the customer. CAPPI’s design and engineering department, which is made up of a team of cold chain experts, advises the customer on the setup that is best suited to its requirements. It also issues a detailed temperature test report.
