Package Testing in Sunnyvale, Northern California

In the heart of Silicon Valley, Pira International operates a well equipped package and product testing laboratory in Sunnyvale, California. This transit testing laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area provides pre-shipment testing of packaged products and durability testing of unpackaged products. The laboratory is ISTA Certified as are individuals within the lab team.

Package testing and product testing involves subjecting a packaged or unpackaged product to the physical rigors of real life hazards, under controlled laboratory conditions. This involves: vibration testing simulating road, rail and air transit; shock testing and drop testing representing manual and automated handling and in-service shock events; compression testing representing warehousing storage and compressive forces arising during shipment and use; and climatic conditoning covering regional or global conditions, from elevated temperature and humidity to sub-zero conditions. Reduced pressure (vacuum) testing is also undertaken, representing the effects of high altitude or reduced pressure air-freight shipments.

Pira's Northern California Package and Product Testing Laboratory
Market Sectors

Our Sunnyvale laboratory was established in 1995 to support a wide range of industries throughout the Western US. The lab has a strong background in high tech product testing including:

• displays
• lasers
• semiconductor manufacturing equipment
• consumer and industrial electronics

Additionally, the laboratory now supports food and beverage, solar and green tech, and consumer products industries. The laboratory conducts thermal and package testing for the medical and healthcare sector, including instrumentation and devices, but importantly also the cold chain industries for temperature sensitive products (TSPs).

Client services include product fragilty testing, vibration testing, shock testing, packaged product pre-shipment testing and thermal package testing. The laboratory team are also experts in field data recording for vibration, shock and environmental data.

Package testing services include both standard testing (using methods such as ISTA 3A and 3E or ASTM D4169 and ASTM D7386), and tailored test programmes based on our extensive supply chain knowledge and fiald data gathering. Tailored projects regularly revolve around packaging improvement, validating more innovative products or packaging components, and reducing costs and damage. The laboratory is regularly conducting testing to JEDEC and Telcordia standards.

Team Expertise

The laboratory team includes consultant and test engineer staff members, providing a mix of real life supply chain knowledge with laboratory experience across the range of packaging materials and sectors. The team has a combined experience of more than 30 years in packaging and testing.

Contact and Address

1287 Reamwood Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Tel: (+1) 408 734 9724
Fax: (+1) 408 734 9762

Email Mike Long
Business Development Manager