Step-by-step guide to conducting top load test on pet bottles

PET bottles have a wide range of uses and are popular for their durability, lightweight, and barrier properties, making them an ideal choice for a variety of consumer products. Testing these bottles against top load strength will help the manufacturers in ensuring the quality of the bottles delivered.

PET bottles have a wide range of uses and are popular for their durability, lightweight, and barrier properties, making them an ideal choice for a variety of consumer products. Testing these bottles against top load strength will help the manufacturers in ensuring the quality of the bottles delivered. Thus, we at Presto have designed a high-quality lab testing instrument known as the top load tester-digital model. This is one of the high-quality laboratory testing equipment that is used to test the top load strength of PET bottles and ensure that these bottles cannot break down and can withstand the top load.

In this blog, we will discuss a brief digital top load tester designed by the experts at Presto. We will also discuss a useful guide for conducting top-load tests on PET bottles. So, let us get started!

Why PET bottles should be tested against top load?

PET bottles are commonly used for packaging beverages, food, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, and other consumer goods. To ensure the safety and quality of these products, it is crucial to conduct top-load testing on PET bottles. Top load testing measures the maximum load that a bottle can withstand before deforming or breaking.

Testing against top load is important for PET bottles because it helps manufacturers and quality control professionals ensure that the bottles can withstand the weight of the product and the stress of transportation and handling. If a PET bottle fails a top load test, it can lead to product leaks, spills, and contamination, compromising the safety and quality of the product. Additionally, if a PET bottle fails to meet top load requirements, it can result in costly product recalls, brand damage, and lost revenue.

Thus, you can easily provide the best level of top strength to PET bottles, with the use of Presto top load tester for pet bottles.

Now, let us discuss a brief about the digital model of the Presto top load tester.

All about Presto digital top load tester

The Presto Digital Top Load Tester is a highly advanced testing instrument used for conducting top load testing on various types of packaging materials, such as PET bottles, cans, containers, and jars. It is a user-friendly, reliable, and efficient testing instrument that is widely used in quality control laboratories and packaging industries.

This is one of the widely used PET bottle testing instruments that will help to test the top load strength of PET bottles and ensure that quality materials will be delivered to the customers.

The top load strength of a product is the maximum weight that a bottle can hold before it starts to break under pressure, and if your bottle's top load strength isn’t high enough, your products could potentially spoil or even explode.

Thus, to make it easy for bottle manufacturers to test the top load strength of materials with ease, we at Presto have designed a top load tester digital model.

This is one of the high-quality lab testing instruments that is used to test the top load strength of PET bottles with ease.

Features of Presto top load tester

• The equipment is built on a rigid metallic base plate and finished in Autumn Gray & Blue combination painting and bright chrome/zinc plating to give it a corrosion-resistant finish.
• The Instrument comes complete with an Instruction Manual, Calibration Certificate traceable to NABL-approved Labs
• Inverted straight plates for zero slip gripping support
• Digital Display for accuracy and repeatability
• Option for the user to switch off the machine in case of the buckling of the test sample.
• In-house calibration facility
• Peak Load Hold Facility
• Data output in digital display form
• Highly accurate test results under compressive force
• Bright LED display
• Feather touch controls

Technical Specifications of top load tester

• Max. Load Range: 100Kgf
• Accuracy: ± 2% full scale(with master load)
• Least Count/Resolution: 0.1 Kgf
• Test Speed: As per Standard
• Power: 220V, Single Phase, 50 Hz
• Display: Digital
• Load Monitoring: Peak Load Indicator with Digital readout and peak hold feature
• Safety Switch: Yes

These are high-end features and technical specifications of this quality testing equipment. This top load testing machine is the secret behind the high top load strength of PET bottles.

Steps to conduct top load test on PET bottles

• Start the machine and ensure that the top load tester is set up and calibrated properly according to the manufacturer's instructions. Make sure that the testing surface is level and clean.
• Place the PET bottle between the compression plates.
• Ensure that the bottle is placed in the center of the compression plate for accurate results.
• Now bring the lower compression in the upper direction and exert a small preload on the bottle to eliminate any air gap between the compression plate and the bottle.
• After applying preload. Press RESET and TARE to set the load indicator to zero.
• Once all steps will be followed, commence the test.

In this way, one can easily perform a top load test on the PET bottles. Give us a call at +91-9210903903 or email us at info@prestogroup.com, to know more about this lab testing instrument.