The School of Packaging Engineering at Iloilo’s Central Philippine University is opening a packaging center that is expected to give the local packaging field a well-needed boost, a CPU press release said.

In partnership with the Department of Science and Technology, CPU-SPE’s packaging center is a value- added service that will offer technical consulting and testing services for both the domestic and international packaging industry.

“The CPU-SPE is the first institution of its kind in the country ,” CPU President Dr. Teodoro Robles, said.

It is our hope that it will prove to be a boon to the industrial sector. Apart from the new testing lab, we offer a specialized engineering course dedicated exclusively to packaging design and development.

He also said that the course is supported by the University’s other programs in mechanical, civil, and chemical engineering, as well as information technology and advertising.

Worth more than P11.5 million, CPU-SPE’s packaging safety testing lab is the latest addition to the School’s facilities.

Designed to test packages from initial product insertion to package stability in transit to anti-contamination measures, the press release said.

it is expected to be fully complaint with such global standards as those of the United Nations requirements for performance-oriented packaging specifically for dangerous goods, the International Safe Transit Association, the National Motor Freight Classification of the Unites States, and ISO standards for materials and distribution, the press release also said.

Apart from the standard load and stress testing gear considered most useful by many of the country’s manufacturing firms, CPU-SPE’s laboratory equipment also includes incline impact testers, compression testers, temperature-specific devices, and machines to check the stability and safety of packages used in the disposal of hazardous materials.

The Laboratory will also provide testing technologies and strategies for the development of packaging for various purposes, testing of the physical properties of packaging materials and containers, transport performance testing, design development, standards compliance certification, and the preparation of prototypes for use in market research ,testing, and evaluation, it added.*

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