Projectname:
Development of scientifically based and practicable Methods to evaluate the Tightness of Pouches
Workgroup: Filling and packaging processes
Spokesman of IVLV-Project Team: Hr. Junghöfer/Bischof + Klein
Research Institution: Fraunhofer AVV, Dresden
Scientific Guidance: Hr. M. Mauermann/Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Goldhahn
IGF: 13565BR
Financing: BMWi
Project Duration: 2003 – 2005
e tightness of a packaging sealing is an essential demand to ensure its function. Requirements on the packaging tightness depend on the packaging goods properties and the process conditions. To reduce the loss of packaging material and packaging goods due to untight sealings specific knowledge about the tightness of packages, typical packaging goods demands and classified testing methods is necessary.
It is the aim of the project to define methods to characterise the tightness of packaging sealings. Furthermore a tightness classification related to the packaging goods and a practical test regime will be developed.
Procedure:
As a result of these analyses certain characteristic packaging goods are going to be allocated to tightness classes and test methods.
Following points will be investigated in 2005:
The IGF project presented here by the Research Association of the Industrial Association for Food Technology and Packaging (IVLV e.V.) is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action as part of the program for the promotion of industrial community research (IGF) based on a decision of the German Bundestag.