Tripak Ltd, the North East’s leading distributor of packaging products, has announced it will be opening soon a brand-new packaging Innovation Lab at its Washington depot, near Newcastle.
Once opened, the facility will be fully equipped to create solutions for all forms of packaging challenges and fully test them, to ensure they can withstand the rigours of supply chain handling.
The Washington site will feature:
- Bespoke ‘Packaging Optimiser’ software, designed to reduce total cost and measure the CO2 equivalent impact of packaging
- Stretch wrapping and pallet load containment testing
- Network handling simulator that evaluates solutions to International Safe Transport Association standards, emulating real world supply chains, including conveyor impacts, vertical drops and last mile logistics
- Atmospheric conditioning chamber, providing precise temperature and humidity testing for applications such as food or pharmaceutical stora