US-based Mocon and Inspection Systems of Melbourne, Australia have formed a partnership to establish a certified lab for permeation, seal strength and leak detection testing for food and pharmaceutical packaging structures.
Inspection Systems, an established supplier of inspection and testing instruments with locations in Australia and New Zealand, has created a separate entity, IS Laboratories, Melbourne, to support the partnership, which aims to provide food and pharmaceutical companies with fast and affordable testing services using Mocon’s instrumentation.
IS Laboratories becomes the first Mocon-certified test facility in Australia and the eighth Mocon-certified lab in the world.
Certification means that state-of-the-art instrumentation has been installed, inspected and is maintained by a Mocon-factory authorised service technician, and that the laboratory staff has been trained on Mocon corporate test lab methods/protocols and record keeping to ensure quality and equivalency.
“Mocon certification assures that companies using any one of these facilities will get the same level of service and quality they would find at any other Mocon-certified location anywhere in the world,” says Alan Shema, product manager for consulting and testing services, Mocon.
Mocon has in recent years been “actively pursuing” strategic laboratory partnerships in key manufacturing regions around the world.
Inspection Systems director Brad Grubb says: “Up until now, companies in this part of the world who did not have access to Mocon instrumentation in their own facilities would either have to send their products to other countries for testing or attempt to find a small laboratory which typically has limited capability.”
IS Laboratory capabilities include: oxygen, water vapour and carbon dioxide permeation testing; burst and pressure strength testing, as well as pressure decay.
