Unlock Growth in Paper Packaging with Smarter Testing and Innovation

In the paper and pulp industry, precision is paramount. Whether you’re measuring brightness, opacity, color, or surface properties, the accuracy of your testing instruments directly impacts product quality, compliance, and customer satisfaction. This is where paper calibration standards come into play.

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With our leading testing brand, Technidyne, we offer a range of specially engineered paper reference materials used to verify and calibrate testing instruments.

Technidyne paper calibration standards are uniquely designed in our ISO 4094-compliant laboratory with specific Technidyne instruments, test types, and international testing standards in mind. Developed in one of only four Authorized Laboratories worldwide – and the sole ISO Level III optical calibration lab in North America – our standards meet the highest international benchmarks, including TAPPI methods for brightness, opacity, and color.

This allows us to bring unmatched expertise, accuracy, and reliability to every stage of your production process — from raw pulp to finished corrugated packaging.

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So, why is now a good time to invest in testing and quality control?

The global paper and pulp industry is projected to be worth over $416 billion by 2035, highlighting a clear path for growth. Despite the opportunities for growth, paper packaging professionals are being forced to navigate a range of complexities.

The main challenges are: 

• Raw materials: the availability of wood pulp due to factors such as global warming, wildfires and deforestation as well as the complexities of using recycled materials for packaging
• Sustainability: the surge in demand for paper-based packaging, driven by consumer trends and attitudes to shift from plastic to alternative or more recycled materials as well as extended producer responsibility laws
• Supply chain: the increasing pressure on paper mills to innovate or reduce operational costs, owing to the decline or closures of several paper mills in North America and Europe
• Standards: meeting changing packaging regulations and complying with stringent, industry paper standards

Now more than ever, paper packaging professionals should partner with test and measurement experts to navigate and overcome these challenges. Doing so will help to leverage the benefits that new technological advances can offer and help paper packaging professionals find the optimal solution. 

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For almost 100 years, Industrial Physics has specialized in developing test and measurement equipment for the pulp, paper, corrugate, tissue, and packaging industries.

Our global test and measurement solutions give mills, converters, and packaging manufacturers the confidence to deliver products that meet the toughest quality and compliance standards — while saving time, money, and materials.

We offer an unrivalled range of solutions across physical and optical parameters which can help you uphold the integrity of your testing processes and ensure your products meet the highest standards of excellence. One example of this is our leading technology Technidyne ColourTouch®X ISO Spectrophotometer

This solution features an advanced color spectrophotometer that measures and can test color difference, brightness, whiteness, opacity and more to provide advanced data analysis and sample tracking to offer you a comprehensive test and inspection solution for papers, pulps and cardboards.

The ColorTouchX ISO spectrophotometer has been designed to help you meet all or most of the most important ISO and TAPPI industry standards throughout paper and pulp inspection.

Why partner with Industrial Physics?

• Expertise of proven leaders in paper testing
• The only testing partner to offer optical, strength, permeability, pulp, and corrugated testing solutions in a single portfolio
• Accuracy you can trust: instruments built on ISO, TAPPI, ASTM, and DIN methods — trusted worldwide in audits and certifications
• Lifecycle support: certified standards, consumables, calibration, and preventive maintenance keep your labs and lines running
• Global partner: trusted by leading paper mills, converters, and packaging labs around the world.

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Despite the growth opportunities in paper packaging, research that we conducted with paper packaging professionals revealed that paper falls significantly behind the wider packaging sector in terms of innovation.

Our research also highlights that: