ISTA Testing
Bay Cities is a proud supporter of the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) Advocate Council that helps direct research and development for the most pressing issues in the transportation supply chain area. We pioneer projects together like E Commerce packaging, Small Parcel testing and Unit Load Stability testing to note a few projects in development.
ISTA helps members control costs, damage, and resources during the distribution of packaged-products by creating and publishing packaged-product test procedures, certifying packaging laboratories, packaged-products and professionals and providing education, training, and support.
We have an in-house ISTA certified testing lab with dedicated team members trained to follow ISTA procedures and to operate the testing equipment.
Having us perform an ISTA test for you, will give you an inexpensive insurance policy to make sure the product and contents get to where they are supposed to go with minimal damage.
A positive test report will provide you tangible benefits like:
- Protection of product and profit, with reduced damage and product loss
- Customer satisfaction and continued business
- Reduction of returns in the emerging Ecommerce supply chains
- Shortened product development time and confidence in product launch, shipments and placements.
Each ISTA procedure requires shock (slam/drop) and vibration (shake) testing. Bay Cities test center is equipped with:
- Vibration platen to simulate the vibration on a truck
- Free fall drop tester, which simulates the drops packages may endure during transit or falls
- Incline and horizontal impact tester, which simulates the impact of a package sliding back and forth and being slammed against a surface
