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PCRI works with professionals who want to learn and with companies that need testing, consultancy or training. Choose the one that fits.
What brings you to PCRI?
Weekend and online programmes taught by people who have run packaging plants, labs and quality functions.
An independent laboratory and a team of packaging experts for quality, R&D, procurement and production teams.
Academic education builds the foundation. Industry experience builds practical wisdom. Professional education connects the two.
Three live online classes a month, three papers with a project each, practicals and an examination. Keep working while you study and finish the year as a Qualified Packaging Professional (QPP).
Corporate and in-plant training
Training designed around your materials, your lines and your customers, delivered at PCRI or at your plant.
Material and performance testing, shelf-life studies, audits and consultancy for companies that make, buy or specify packaging.
Will your corrugated box survive stacking and transport?
Compression, bursting strength, Cobb, edge crush and drop tests tell you before the truck does.
Request testing
Does your film keep moisture and oxygen out for the whole shelf life?
Barrier, seal strength, tensile and thickness testing for flexible packaging and laminates.
Request testing
How long will your product really last in this pack?
Expiry and shelf-life studies for packaged food and pharmaceutical products, with a report you can act on.
Plan a study
Is your packaging safe for direct contact with food?
Testing for packaging that touches the product, for food and pharma brands and their converters.
Ask about scope
Are you paying for more packaging than the product needs?
An independent audit of what you buy, how it performs and where the specification can be tightened.
Book an audit
Stuck on a packaging problem nobody on your team has seen before?
Material selection, development, troubleshooting and PCRI experts deployed to your site when needed.
Talk to an expertTrusted by
Packaging teams at brands, converters and manufacturers across India and overseas.
See all clientsEvery sample follows the same four steps, from the request form to a report with interpretation.
Fill in the Customer Request Form, tell us the product and the question, then send the sample to Hyderabad.
Every test follows a published method, so the result is comparable with your supplier's and your customer's.
Along with the results, we explain what they mean for your pack, your product and its journey to the customer.
A PCRI expert walks you through the report and what to change, if anything.
Completing the Post Graduate Diploma in Packaging (PGDP) at the Packaging Clinic & Research Institute (PCRI), Hyderabad, under the master mentorship of Prof. B.K. Karna, was the defining bridge of my career.
The course has significantly enhanced my understanding of packaging materials, testing methods, quality control, packaging design, and industry standards. The knowledge gained during this program will help me perform more effectively in my professional career.
I am happy to express my thanks & gratitude to my Company who entrusted me to do this course. Regular online classes indeed helped at every stage where trouble related to Packaging has been solved.
I have learned more from this institute about packaging material & quality standards. Prof. Karna sir & PCRI helped to grow my knowledge about packaging materials.
Given the virtual environment he was electric and kept the group and myself engaged the whole time while clearly and concisely teaching the content.
Established in Hyderabad on 22 February 2012, PCRI is an independent packaging institute. A certified testing laboratory, a professional education programme and a consultancy and audit practice work side by side for converters, brand owners, food and pharmaceutical companies and MSMEs, in India and overseas.
Packaging technologist · Academician · International consultant
"Packaging is not merely a container; it is a technology that protects products, preserves value, enables logistics, supports sustainability and creates market opportunities."
40 years in packagingPh.D. in PackagingFormer Regional Head, IIP Hyderabad
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Humidity, creep and the stack that sat for three weeks. What a compression number does and does not tell you, and the two tests that predict the journey better than one.
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