Scholle’s Global Materials Science Lab

Scholle Packaging’s Materials Science Lab is based in Northlake, IL USA. Our workload is very diverse, but our main function is to work with the Global Packaging Development Group with evaluation of new films, fitments and bag configurations. 

The Lab often gets involved with customers when new products are being qualified. For example, we can perform compatibility testing of their product in the exact bag structure they are considering. This expedites the commercialization process by preventing placment of a package in the field and finding out that it doesn’t work due to product migration, seal failures or environmental stress crack failure.

Some products require UN DOT testing. Our lab has drop testing capability, which is one of the tests required to certify a package. We can run this test in order to do initial screening of the package. When certification is required, we can assist the customer with finding labs that can perform the full UN DOT certification testing.

Another area we can help our customers with is transportation testing. We have a vibration table which is very useful when determining if the bag to box fit is correct. If it is not, there will be too much flexing of the bag which causes flex crack holes and leakage in the field.

For a more complete listing of tests we run on a regular basis, please see the chart below.

The Materials Science Lab team is made up of highly-trained and educated people. Collectively, the experience within the group at Scholle totals more than 50+ years. They are a very innovative group and are always coming up with new ways to test development samples, collect data and researching new techniques that can be used in the lab. Together we can solve any problem.

–Amy Glawe // Manager, Materials Science Lab