Our Vision
Just Right Transport Packages, Designed and Certified against Just Right Hazards and Levels of Preshipment Testing

Our Mission
Support our membership, and therefore the worldwide community, in designing and developing effective packaging, methods and logistics systems for product distribution

If you share this focus, we invite you to join us, work with us and take advantage of ISTA's highly targeted membership programs.

Decide today to join ISTA, the association for transport packaging!


ISTA exists to provide a variety of programs, services, and activities to enhance the art and science of packaged-product distribution.

We want to be:
• Your Education and Training Connection.

• Your Information Center.

• Your Networking Facilitator.

• Your Data Collection/Dissemination Resource.

We want to:
• Provide transport information and tools needed to make jobs easier;
• Help design packages that provide the right amount of product protection; and
• Give useful insight and technology that helps lower the total cost of distribution.

As the only association in the world dedicated to the specific concerns of packaged-product distribution, ISTA understands just how difficult the job can be. Our staff, our board and our entire membership are composed of people just like you who work on and care about the same issues and problems that you face everyday.

Everything we do, every article we publish, every meeting we hold, every decision we make, will be of direct interest to you and your company.