Material analysis and product testing

Food packaging testing

Our activities focus on innovations in the field of safety, functionality and design of packaging and packaging materials. Special filling goods require special packaging know-how. Whether food, pharmaceutical products or cosmetics, we test existing packaging or develop new models that meet both the requirements of the filling goods and those of our customers.

Our offer

Consulting for packaging of food and non-food products
Contract research and development of individual, innovative packaging solutions
Optimization of existing packaging systems
Establishment of customized quality assurance systems for optimal packaging at calculable prices
Preparation of practical specifications and definition of limits for safe packaging materials and packaging
Preparation of expert opinions and damage analyses
Packaging tests
Assessment of packaging for national and international legal or standard conformity
Consulting and appraisal according to the LMSVG
Audits according to IFS, BRC, BRC/IoP, FEFCO GMP
Events and trainings

Concrete test offers for packaging & filling goods

We offer workshops tailored to your needs to deepen your company’s internal focus. Central topics can be, for example:

Packaging and food law
Microbiology and hygiene
Audits
HACCP
Fundamentals of plastics technology
Sensory analysis of packaging materials and foods
Development of practical specifications
Quality management in the fields of packaging and food
Protective gas packaging (MAP)

Test offer: Packaging

For decades, OFI has been conducting research in the Packaging & Food sector, contributing to the development of the packaging industry. With a wide range of testing options, we cover a wide variety of complex issues.

We offer all functional tests for plastic packaging.

chemical and physical material analysis
mechanical testing of packaging materials and packaging
Permeability and light protection
Determination of the packaging atmosphere
Microbial contamination
Packaging sensor technology
Leak tightness, leak detection, sealing behavior, burst tests
Testing of dangerous goods transport packaging and large packaging, issuance of UN approval or EFIBCA approval.
Resistance to alternating temperatures, storage tests
Migration behavior
Surface analyses (microscopy, SEM)
individual and customized tests