Package Certification Helps...

• Generate a package that will adequately protect against shock, vibration, compression and/or atmospheric hazards of the distribution environment.

• Reduce or eliminate the need for trial shipments, getting new products to market faster while insuring their survival.

• Strengthen 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."

• Freight rate and cargo insurance negotiations for lower rates because of lower risk of damage in shipment.

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.