List of all tests

• Conformity Status

• Damage analysis/ analysis of complaints
• Request for special tests

• Analysis of gels/ particles (microplastic)
  Norm: Inhouse method
• Ash content of plastic materials (polyolefins)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 3451-1
• Beilstein test
  Norm: Hausverfahren PV067
• bulk density (apperant density of free- flowing palstic materials)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 1183-1 (method A)
• Coating weight of adhesives, lacquers, coatings, hotmelts;cold seal
  Norms: According FhG Leaflet 11 part 1, Finat FTM 12
• Density of plastic materials
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 1183-1 (method A)
• DSC/ thermal analysis: determination of glass transission temperature
  Norm: ISO 11357-2
• DSC/ thermal analysis: melting- and crystallisation behavior
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 11357-3
• Film construction/ material characterisation- Analysis package for a fixed price
  Norm: Inhouse- Method
• Infrared (IR)-spectroscopy
  Norm: DIN 51451 / DIN EN 13206 / Hausverfahren PV061
• melt index (melt mass- flow rate) MFR (MFI)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 1133-1
• microscopical examination by light microscopy incl. photographic documentation
• Microtome section
  Norm: Hausverfahren PV049 / DIN EN 546-3 / DIN EN ISO 3146
• moisture content/ water content (residual moisture)
  Norm: DIN 51777 / DIN EN ISO 15512
• OIT oxidation stability as oxidation induction time or oxidation induction temperature via DSC
  Norm: ISO 11357-6
• PET Flake Clumping Evaluation according APR PET-S-08 (Association of Plastic Recyclers)
  Norm: APR PET-S-08
• Recycling incompatibilities - Investigation of material-specific recycling incompatibilities - Analysis bundles for a fixed price
• solids content of adhesives, laqueres, printing inks (gravimetric determination)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 3251
• TGA-analysis (thermo- gravimetry)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 11358-1
• VA content of E/VA-Copolymers

• Abrasion test of printings Dr. Ruf method
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 3451-1
• Anti Fogging Test
• Bending stiffness
  Norm: DIN 53121
• Blocking test/ blocking strength
  Norm: DIN 53366
• bond strength/ peel force of laminates/ multilayer films/ bondings (temperature range -40 to +120 °C)
  Norm: DIN 55543-5 / DIN EN ISO 11339 / ASTM F 904
• coefficient of friction COF
  Norms: DIN EN ISO 8295 (hist DIN 53375), ASTM D 1894, based on DIN EN ISO 8295 (180 g sledge, 25 mm*75 mm)
• Compression test with cups, buckets and basins (temperature range -40 to +120 °C)
  Norm: based on DIN EN ISO 12048
• Creep- Test
  Norm: DIN EN 13206 / DIN EN ISO 899-1
• curling or flatness
  Norm: DIN 55403
• Curvature of films
• Dart Drop Test (Impact resistance)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 7765-1 / ASTM D 1709
• Determination of thickness of plastic films, aluminium foils, plane multilayer-materials and sheets
  Norms: DIN ISO 4593, DIN EN 546-3, measured according to DIN ISO 4593 ▲
• Determination of volume of flexible bags
  Norm: DIN EN 13590
• determination of weight
  Norm: Hausverfahren PV072
• Dimensions and repeating patterns of pouches, sacks etc.
  Norm: GKV Blatt I- IV / DIN 55404 / DIN EN 13592 / Hausverfahren PV042
• drop test of sacks and bags EN 13592
  Norm: DIN EN 13592
• Fat repellent impregnation of paper, lipophobic properties;Kit-Test
• FINAT peel adhesion
  Norms: FTM 1, FTM 2, FTM 3 (on request), FTM 5 (on request), FTM 6 (on request), FTM 9, FTM 10, FTM 11, FTM 12 (see coating weight), FTM 15 (see wetting tension) , FTM 23b (on request)
• Gelboflextest/ Brugger KFT
  Norm: ASTM F 392 (on basis, if other number of cycles as condition A up to E is chosen)
• grammage
  Norm: DIN 55543-6 / DIN EN ISO 536 / FhG Merkblatt 6 Teil 6
• Impact resistance by instrumented puncture test
  Norm: DIN ISO 7765-2
• Indentation hardness (Shore hardness)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 868
• linear dimensional changes/ dimensional stability/ temperature stability of films and sheets
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 11501 / ASTM D 1204 / DIN 53377
• penetrability of fat/ fat- proof test
  Norm: DIN 53116
• printing ink adhesion (tesa test)
  Norm: ASTM F 2252/ F 2252M:2013
• Puncture resistance, quasi- statical (temperature range -40 to +120 °C)
  Norms: ASTM F 1306 or DIN EN 14477, ASTM F 1306, DIN EN 14477
• Seal resistance of printings or coatings (heat resitance)
  Norm: Sun Chemical Hartmann PV 20
• Seal seam quality of PE- pouches or sacks (temperature range -40 to +120 °C)
  Norm: GKV- leaf PE- Films and Products Bl. III/ DIN EN ISO 527-3
• Seal strength of peelable pouches, sacks, sealed packages under usage of package testing device
  Norm: DIN 55409-2 / DIN 55409-1
• Seal strength, tensile test on strips (temperature range -40 to +120 °C)
  Norms: DIN 55529, ASTM F 88, DIN EN 868 Teil 5 Anhang D (ASTM F 88)
• sealing properties of plastic films/ Hot- Tack- Test
  Norm: DIN 55571-2 A (similar ASTM F 1921)
• Sealing properties, verification and comparison by laboratory sealing press
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 527-3 / DIN 55409-2 / DIN 55529 / DIN EN 868-5- D / ASTM F 88/ F 88M / GKV Blatt III, Pkt 3 / DIN 55409-1
• shear strength of glued seams (temperature range -40 to +120 °C)
• Shrinkage of PE-films (Betex- instrument)
• shrinkage stress determination of plastic films
  Norm: DIN 53369 (contraction stress acc. ISO 14616)
• Smoothness Bekk Method
  Norm: DIN 53107
• Sterilisation/ pasteurization in laboratory autoclave
• storage test/ accelerated aging in climate chamber (controlled temperature and relative humidity)
  Norm: ASTM F 1980
• storage test/ accelerated aging in explosion protected heating chamber (controlled temperature)
  Norm: ASTM F 1980
• storage test/ accelerated aging in lab drying oven or refrigerator (controlled temperature)
  Norm: ASTM F 1980
• stretch hood- and stretch wrap films- characterization by hysteresis tensile test (only in stretching direction, e.g generally in TD)
• Surface resistance/ resistivity
  Norm: DIN EN 61340-2-3 (VDE 0300-2-3) / DIN EN 62631-3-2 (VDE 0307-3-2) / TRGS 727
• tear resistance (also folded edges), (temperature range -40 to +120 °C)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 6383-1 / DIN 53363 / DIN ISO 34-1 / FhG Merkblatt 6 Teil 6 / ASTM D 1938
• Tearing resistance (Elmendorf)
  Norm: ASTM D 1922 / DIN EN ISO 1974 / DIN EN ISO 6383-2
• tensile test aluminium foils
  Norm: DIN EN 546-2
• tensile test films and laminates (temperature range -40 to +120 °C)
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 527-1 / DIN EN ISO 527-3 / ASTM D 882 / Hausverfahren 0815/007 (HE-Test) (in Anlehnung) / DIN EN 29073-3 / DIN EN ISO 13934-1
• tensile test paper wet strength
  Norm: DIN EN 868-4-C / DIN EN ISO 1924-2 / DIN ISO 3781
• tensile test paper, sealing strength of paper samples
  Norms: DIN EN ISO 1924-2, DIN EN 868 part 4 appendix C (DIN EN ISO 1924-2)
• tensile- impact strength
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 8256 (Anhang A)
• Unpacking barness of cups (hollow articles)
• water absorption of paper/ Cobb- test
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 535
• weathering test- wet smear resistance of printed peat culture substrate and humus packaging
  Norm: BTH- method, exposure to artificial light source on the basis of DIN EN ISO 4892-2
• weathering test/ light fastness- exposure to laboratory light sources or artificial weathering/UV- test
  Norm: according DIN EN ISO4892-2
• Wetting tension (e.g. for determination of Corona treatment intensity)
  Norm: DIN ISO 8296
• wrinkle resistance of printings or coatings- dry or after immersion in water

• Colorimetric measurement, colourimetry (L*, a*, b*)
  Norm: APR PET-S-02 (nur Colorimetrie) / EPBP QT 507 (nur Colorimetrie) / DIN 5033-1
• determination of opacity
  Norm: DIN 6125 / ISO 2471
• gloss
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 2813 / ASTM D 2457 / ASTM D 523
• haze/ transparency
  Norm: ASTM D 1003
• optical density
• UV- VIS- spectroscopy
  Norm: inhouse method

• colourfastness of dyes of plastic materials
  Norms: DIN 53160-1, DIN 53160-2, BfR-Method Part B II IX
• Determination of migration test temperature (SML and OM) for microwave application
  Norm: DIN EN 14233
• microbiological examination
  Norm: based on DIN 54378
• Organoleptic analysis of packaging materials/ sensory analysis - Odour
  Norms: DIN 10955, DIN EN 1230-1, ISO 13302
• Organoleptic analysis of packaging materials/ transfer of sensory perceptible substances to (test) foodstuffs
  Norms: DIN 10955, DIN EN 1230-2, ISO 13302
• overall migration acc. Reg. (EU) No 10/2011 standardized testing conditions (OM0- OM7)
  Norms: DIN EN 1186-1, DIN EN 1186-2, DIN EN 1186-3, DIN EN 1186-4, DIN EN 1186-5, DIN EN 1186-6, DIN EN 1186-7, DIN EN 1186-8, DIN EN 1186-9, DIN EN 14338, DIN EN 1186-13
• overall migration rapid tests and alternative simulants
  Norms: DIN EN 1186-14 (substitute test) testiing conditions acc. IVLV leaflet no. 110/2013 or Directive 82/711/ECC), DIN EN 1186-14 (substitute test) testing conditions acc. draft „Technical guidelines for migration testing“, DIN EN 1186-15 (alternative test with higher test level))
• overall migration special tests / Substitute test OM8 und OM9
  Norms: DIN EN 1186-1 till 9, based on DIN EN 14338 or DIN EN 1186-13

• Carbondioxyde transmission (CO2 TR) rate of plastic films, laminates, coated papers, Alufoils, etc.
  Norm: ISO 15105-1 / DIN 53380-2
• Determination of (residual) oxygen and carbon dioxide content in ready made packs
• Leak tightness/leakage test/pores
  Norms: inhouse method, DIN 55508-2, ASTM F 1929, DIN EN 546-4 method a, FhG Leaflet 29, IVLV Leaflet 102, DIN EN 13592
• Nitrogen transmission rate (N2 TR) of plastic films, laminates, coated papers, Alufoils, etc.
  Norm: ISO 15105-1 / DIN 53380-2
• Oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of packages, pouches, moulded parts, bottles, etc. (only suitable for barrier materials, see also "i")
  Norm: ISO 15105-2 (Anhang A) / DIN 53380-3 / ASTM F 1927 / ASTM D 3985
• Oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of plastic films, laminates, coated papers, Alufoils, etc.
  Norm: ISO 15105-2 (Anhang A) / DIN 53380-3 / ASTM F 1927 / ASTM D 3985
• permeation (air, methane, helium, argon,others on request) of plastic films, laminates, coated papers, Alufoils
  Norm: ISO 15105-1 / DIN 53380-2
• Water Vapour Transmission Rate (WVTR) bottles, packages, moulded parts, tubes, etc. (only suitable for barrier materials, see also "i")
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 15106-3 / DIN EN ISO 12572
• Water vapour transmission rate (WVTR) plastic films, laminates, coated papers and aluminium foils
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 15106-3 / DIN EN ISO 12572
• Water vapour transmission rate (WVTR), gravimetric test
  Norm: DIN 53122-1 / DIN EN ISO 12572 / DIN EN 12086
• Water vapour transmission rate (WVTR)/ Sd- value
  Norm: DIN EN ISO 15106-3 / DIN EN ISO 12572 / DIN EN 12086

• 10 ppb- Screening or NIAS- Screening (non-target analysis) semiquantitative
  Norms: Inhouse method PV055, Inhouse method
• Heavy metals / metals
  Norms: Inhouse method, DIN EN 71-3, EDQM Publication Metals and alloys used in food contact materials (1st Edition - 2013), multi-methode based on DIN EN ISO 17294-2
• mineral oils MOSH, POSH, and MOAH
  Norms: BfR-method, BfR-methode after migration acc. to DIN EN 13130-1 or DIN EN 14338, inhouse method, SVI- guideline 2015.01
• organo tin compounds
• PAA - primary aromatic amines, specific migration by HPLC-MS/MS, multi-method
  Norm: HPLC-MS/MS (SIM) of the amines
• Plasticizers
  Norms: Inhouse method, IVLV leaflet 107/2011
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), determination of content
• Primary aromatic amines photometric summation method
  Norm: § 64 LFGB method L 00.006
• Residual solvents determination
  Norms: DIN EN 13628-2 (industrial method), inhouse method
• set off test from printings and laquers according Regulation (EC) No 2023/2006
• Slip agent content in polyolefines, EA (Erucamide) and OA (oleamide), qualitative and quantitative
  Norm: Inhouse method GC-FID-MS
• SML (specific migration limit) analysis of individual substances for compliance evaluation
  Norms: DIN EN 13130-1 (migration), inhouse method, inhouse method PV056- annex A, inhouse method PV056- annex B