Smithers provides a range of testing to help you characterise plastic films and packaging materials and understand properties that can affect processing, appearance and end-use performance.
Alongside physical testing, our laboratories can evaluate optical and appearance properties, film structure and integrity, and thermal and heat-sealing behaviour.
Our plastics testing capabilities include:
- Colour, opacity, gloss and transmission haze
- Film structure
- Pinhole assessment
- Blocking
- Heat sealability
- Thermal analysis
- Bespoke testing for specific materials and applications
Understanding material and packaging performance
Testing can support material comparison, product development, quality control, troubleshooting and the evaluation of material or process changes. It can also help identify characteristics that may affect how a film performs during conversion, packaging operations or intended use.
Testing is carried out using relevant standard methods where applicable. Where established methods do not fully address your requirements, our specialists can develop bespoke test programmes around the material, application or performance 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 plastic material or performance issue you need to understand.
Plastic Testing - Additional Properties