Are you curious and would like to know the details? Here you go – the notice says that a refrigerator and a freezer are used to perform dynamic tests and transport tests simulating the most severe weather conditions (the mechanical properties of plastic are altered at low temperatures).

Now do you understand how important this test is? The mechanical properties of plastic are altered at low temperatures so it is crucial for us to have somewhere to test what could happen to our products when they are exposed to extreme conditions - because safety is no laughing matter.

A machine reproduces the “battering” that our packages are subject to when we deliver them to destinations in Italy and around the world. In this way we can check the conditions of our boxes when they “arrive" and make any changes we need to make.

Here is our machine at work.

Falls are simulated by an operator dropping the item, which falls for 90 centimeters before hitting the ground at different angles. In this way we can check what happens to the boxes or products if they fall out of a lorry during transport or if they are dropped while they are being unloaded.

The information we collect is then used to improve the way our products are packaged. It’s obviously worth it, isn’t it?