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Defect Classification - Packaging

The document outlines the quality characteristics and defect classifications for packaging made of corrugated board, detailing critical, major, and minor defects. It specifies testing methods and equipment for various quality characteristics, including materials, dimensions, surfaces, and functional characteristics. Compliance with the outlined standards is essential to ensure product quality and safety.

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Defect Classification - Packaging

The document outlines the quality characteristics and defect classifications for packaging made of corrugated board, detailing critical, major, and minor defects. It specifies testing methods and equipment for various quality characteristics, including materials, dimensions, surfaces, and functional characteristics. Compliance with the outlined standards is essential to ensure product quality and safety.

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Issue: 15.09.

05
VCI Quality
Characteristics List supersedes
Issue: __-__-__
No. 040
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Packaging made of corrugated board

• The defect classification based on DIN 55350-31 (1985-12) is set out in the following
table.
• All characteristics must be monitored by suitable means such that the chance of an
unpermitted change in the characteristic is kept technically as small as possible.
• Testing methods that differ from the examples quoted in this document are
permitted, provided that they lead to comparable results.
• Proof of product quality must cover at least the characteristics printed marked with *.
• The defect classification may differ as long as the parties concerned are in
agreement.

Defect
Definition Evaluation
class
CD Critical defects are those which make the packaging Packaging
unfit for use, which jeopardize human health, safety and material not
the environment or which contravene legal requirements usable
or lead to destruction of or a change in the packaged
contents.
MD Major defects are those which severely impair handling Usability of
and use of the packaging and lead to a loss of packaging
performance. material
markedly
impaired
MinD Minor defects are those which represent a general Usability of
lowering of quality but do not limit the function of the packaging
packaging. material
slightly
impaired

Description:

CD Critical Defect
MD Major Defect
MinD Minor Defect
PMS Packaging Specification
TD Technical Drawing
VPA Packaging Testing and Characteristic guidelines
DI Delivery Instruction
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No. Quality characteristic Testing Method of testing / Defect


acc. to testing equipment class
1.00 Materials
1.01 Paper grades / corrugated PMS, TD, Fibre analysis MD
board types approval DIN 55468-1 (2004-08)
1.02 Colouring PMS Visual inspection MinD
1.03 Determination of the PMS DIN ISO 3039 (1993-07) MD
grammage of the approval
component papers
2.00 Dimensions / Design
2.01* External length PMS, Steel rule CD
approval, TD
2.02* External width PMS, Steel rule CD
approval, TD
2.03* External height PMS, Steel rule CD
approval, TD
2.04* Special dimensions (e.g. PMS, Steel rule MD
creasing dimensions) approval, TD
2.05 Perforations/ punchings PMS, TD Visual inspection, MD
steel rule
2.06 Manufacturer’s joint PMS, Visual inspection, CD
approval, TD function test
2.07* Marking Approval, Visual inspection CD
VPA 6,

2.08* Printing PMS Visual inspection MD


3.00 Surfaces
3.01 Corrugations deformed, State of the Visual inspection MinD
scratched, damaged) art
3.02 External cleanliness State of the Visual inspection MinD
(contaminants removable) art
3.03 External cleanliness State of the Visual inspection CD
(contaminants not art
removable)
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No. Quality characteristic Testing Method of testing / Defect


acc. to testing equipment class
3.04 Internal cleanliness State of the Visual inspection CD
art

4.00 Functional characteristics


4.01* Burst resistance PMS, DIN EN ISO 2759 (2003- CD
approval 11)
4.02* Puncture resistance PMS, DIN 53142-1 (2004-12) CD
approval
4.03* Water absorption PMS, DIN EN 20535 (1994-09) CD
approval (Cobb test),
ISO 535:1991
4.04 Adhesion of the PMS DIN 55468-1 (2004-08), CD
component papers DIN 55468-2 (2004-08),
DIN 53133 (1988-07)
4.05 Creasing PMS, TD Function test, DIN MD
55437-1 - 3 (1992-01)
4.06 Water resistance PMS DIN 53133 (1988-07) MD
4.07* Stacking resistance PMS, RID/ADR chapter 6, CD
approval VPA 3,
DIN EN 55440-1 (1991-
11)
4.08* Drop resistance PMS, RID/ADR chapter 6 CD
approval DIN EN 22248 (1993-02)
4.09 Air permeability PMS Function test, DIN MD
53120-1 (1998-06)
5.00 Other characteristics
5.01 Transport packaging, PMS, DI Visual inspection MD
loading
5.02 Marking of loading unit PMS, DI Visual inspection MD
5.03 Shipments all of one kind PMS Visual inspection MD
(no mix ups)
5.04 Transport load safety PMS, state of Visual inspection MD
the art, DI

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