Smithers provides a wide range of testing to help you characterise paper, board and corrugated materials and understand properties that can affect processing, conversion and end-use performance.

Alongside physical and surface testing, our laboratories can evaluate material composition, moisture and water interaction, cleanliness and chemical characteristics, as well as properties relevant to converting processes such as creasing and gluing.

Our testing capabilities include:

  • Fibre furnish analysis
  • Moisture content
  • Water absorbency and wet expansion
  • Air permeance
  • Ash, grit and dirt content
  • pH, sulphates and chlorides
  • Crease stiffness and creasing quality
  • Glueability

Standard and bespoke testing

Testing is carried out to relevant international standards where applicable and can support material comparison, specification, quality control and the investigation of processing or performance issues.

Where standard methods do not fully address your requirements, our specialists can develop bespoke test approaches around the material, application or issue you need to investigate.

Explore the testing areas on this page to find out more about individual methods and capabilities, or talk to our experts about the material property or performance issue you need to understand.

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