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ISTA Testing Overview
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| ISTA exists to provide a variety of programs, services, and activities
to enhance the art and science of packaged-product distribution.
Package certification helps generate a
package that will adequately protect against shock, vibration,
compression and/or atmospheric hazards of the distribution environment.
It can reduce or eliminate the need
for trial shipments, getting new products to market faster while insuring
their survival. It also strengthens
your company's position in claims negotiations because it
establishes the adequacy of the package, thus encouraging carriers and
claims inspectors to look for other causes of damage and to settle or
accept settlement more quickly. Helps reduce claims and claims processing
expenses. Customer satisfaction: Customers return if their product arrives in perfect condition. All engineering, manufacturing, quality and sales efforts are wasted when your customer receives a damaged product. The TRANSIT TESTED concept is based on Performance Testing and Certification. ISTA has established a program of transport package performance testing standards and a certification process for the identification of transport packages, testing laboratories and test practitioners.
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