Case Studies

Improved coding efficiency from integrated coding

Leading chilled dairy foods company, Dairy Crest, has dramatically improved the efficiency of its coding and labelling processes and made major cost savings by installing an integrated solution from MARKEM’s Systems Integration team. Dairy Crest installed MARKEM’s Cimjet and Cimpak label printer-applicators and Inkjet 5000 printers on its cheddar production line in Davidstow, increasing reliability and accuracy across the whole system from primary coding to pallet labelling.

How a quality-conscious dairy company used MARKEM coding technology to support its product traceability process.

When it was founded in 1930, the company Centrale del Latte di Brescia quickly established a reputation for the quality and integrity of its products. These values have remained constant despite many changes to the company and its markets, and today its customers enjoy a comprehensive product range, produced in state-of-the-art processes.

Improving traceability at Yakult

The headquarters of Yakult Europe is in the Netherlands and the factory at Almere produces Yakult, Yakult Light and Bifiene products for the European market. The company was founded in Japan by Doctor Minoru Shiroto over 70 years ago. He was convinced that a positive balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut was the basis of a long and healthy life and developed a milk-based drink as a convenient way of ingesting it. Today, Yakult’s probiotic products are available in 28 countries around the world.

Markem Offers Food for Thought with Innovative Labeling Solution

Loxton Foods, producer of award-winning frozen ready-prepared meals, has enlisted the services of Markem, supplier of coding and marking systems, to ensure the smooth-running of the company’s busy production line.

CONGALSA: Combining traditional ‘home-made’ taste with today’s quality.

Since the company was founded in the early 1990’s, CONGALSA has built a reputation for the quality of its frozen, ready-cooked seafood dishes combined with the highest levels of service. Today it has more than 600 retail and wholesale customers in 25 countries, supplying both branded and private label products.

The Sweetest Things

Confectionaries distributor saves valuable time and money with thermal-transfer coder.

The Incredible Bulk

Candadian Packaging, October 2005, page 18

Dry snack-foods producer brings its packaging prowess to date with reliable and user-friendly product identification technologies.

More quality and efficiency for Lutosa with the MARKEM systems

Lutosa-Van den Broeke, a Belgium company that converts potatoes into different final products (frozen fries, potato flakes,and fresh fries), uses Markem SmartDate,Cimjet and 5000 series coders for quality and efficiency in their production facility.

Fruit-pack weighing and coding cruise

Packaging Digest, January 2005, page 32

Cherry and apple packer Brewster Heights Packing installs the first Line Director system. Targeted at fruit packers, the solution uses integrated scanning, in-motion weighing and case coding, along with database software, for fast and accurate processing of multiple product variables.

Quality codes for new coffee packaging configuration

In the grips of strong structural growth and, because of this, worthy of being watched carefully, the Mokapak plant (Lavazza group) is moving ahead with an important development. Concentrating on the production of coffee pads, in many ways it represents the state of the art in packaging technologies, and among its many suppliers is Markem, which, with its coding and marking systems, rounds off the system of quality and efficient production.

A Commitment to Quality and Innovation in Cosmetics - L’Oréal Spain

Recently, L’Oréal Spain has expanded its base of MARKEM equipment with the purchase of the SmartLase laser coder, which they use to code packaging with expanded information for complete tracking.

Lasers at Lipton

PACKAGING DIGEST
March, 2004
page 38

Lipton installs 13 laser printers for its tea cartons that increase line speeds, produce significantly better quality codes, use no toxic inks and require no consumables.

The good wine code

From its origins in Veneto, the Zonin family has established itself in the other major wine-growing regions of Italy, with ambitious targets for growth in all product areas. Today it closes the first balance for its hi-tech bottling plant installed a year ago for the prestigious wines of its Sicilian vineyard, a plant fitted with laser and resin jet coding systems from Markem.

Foodservice firm makes its case

Mark-Lynn Foods employs 29 case coders at its Bremen, GA, facility. The networked machines improve reliability and lessen labor costs.

From luxury commodity to convenience product

Today's consumer is often spoiled when it comes to the multitude of spices and spice mixtures: The market is offering gourmets a large selection of compositions, which make even home-cooked meals more exciting. Manufacturers of spice mixtures are providing plenty of ideas. Those who would like to refine their culinary talents have plenty of possibilities at their fingertips. Such lavish multitude of spice mixtures make us easily forget that spices were rather scarce in the ancient world and in medieval times. They frequently were the cause for warlike conflicts, because pepper, cinnamon or ginger had to be imported by boat from India, China or Indonesia. Those who could afford to buy spices were considered to be rich individuals.

A Case/Carton Coding Makeover

Automating its ink-jet coding processes relieved Pharmaceutical Specialties of preprinted cases and messy inks for a range of irritant-free lotions, haircare, skin care and suncare products. The results afford quality printing, instantly dry codes and lower packaging costs.

Case coders sparkle at Blue Diamond

New equipment delivers three lines of type for bulk boxes of nuts. The case coders reduce labor costs, downtime, and ink loss associated with previous units.

Blue Diamond networks coders

Networking multiple coders to a host PC saves time and provides flexibility for nut cooperative Blue Diamond Growers.

Yokogawa Ibiden Components Goes Digital With MARKEM Q2001

In printed circuit board (PCB) marking, silk screens must be made for each circuit pattern, and each screen must be kept in stock for a long period of time, resulting in the need for a large and expensive warehouse. Yokogawa Ibiden Components (YIP), a manufacturer of PCBs used in electronic equipment, was determined to eliminate its warehouse, and initiate a fully digital PCB marking system to provide high-quality marks, and quick turnaround time for its demanding customers. YIP recently chose the MARKEM Q2001 OptiMark™ laser printing system for the job.

VIKO Test Lab Selects MARKEM Solutions

In the complex world of providing semiconductor services, Viko Test Lab prides itself in its ability to respond to the ever-changing needs of its customers. Whether the customer requires electrical test, wafer sort, burn-in, package qualification, topside mark or tape and reel, Viko's work with its customers' various needs is unsurpassed.

Tortilla Packs Always Get a Date

La Siesta Foods tested a new ink jet coder designed for food processing plants. The results; better reliability, easy cleaning and operation, and improved portability cut downtime for tortilla bakery.

Private Label Packager Spices Up Its On-line Package Marking

This packager developed a system that marks pouches with variables of batch and dating data, and each product name, weight and UPC, by combining a basic line of film preprinted with brand graphics and standard information with MARKEM thermal transfer printing equipment.

Online Coding Rejuvenates Coffee Pouching

Output of 2 oz. coffee pouches on a refurbished poucher at Gaviña Coffee is saved by two in-line thermal transfer coders that print bar codes along with product variety in script copy.

New French Pharmaceutical Law Poses Printing Challenge

Thermal overprinting onto small size labels (55mm × 35mm maximum) is playing a key role in allowing European pharmaceuticals suppliers to meet specific requirements for the French market, which came into effect at the beginning of 1997.

Cimpak Pallet Marker Completes Fully Automatic Product Tracking System

Personal products manufacturer Elida Faberge has chosen a MARKEM Cimpak pallet labeler to complete a fully automatic product tracking system and meet EAN 128 labeling standards, which require the standardization of pallet labels throughout Europe.

Corner Wrap Marking Without the Wrap

A pair of easy-to-use adjacent-panel labelers each relies on one applicator arm to apply two separate labels, reducing material costs when compared to corner wrap labels.

SmartDate's Gentle Touch For Ringtons

The gentle coding action and quality print of a MARKEM SmartDate thermal transfer printer has proven particular benefits to leading tea and coffee supplier Ringtons.

Thornton's Confectionery Install SmartDate

Top confectionery manufacturer Thornton's has installed a MARKEM SmartDate thermal transfer printer for coding on packages of its extensive range of sweets, supplied both to its own shops and many of the UK's leading retailers.

Ink Jet Codes Add Polish to Jar Filling

After acting as test site for prototype ink jet coding model, J. A. Wright, a marketer of silver, copper and brass polishes, goes on stream with coder that uses solventless ink... explains Eastern Editor Bernard Abrams.

Glaxo Wellcome Continues Relationship With MARKEM

Glaxo Wellcome, the world's largest pharmaceutical group, has installed a MARKEM CIMJET 300 compact on-line print and apply labeling system on two new aerosol filling lines at its manufacturing and packaging facility in Speke, Liverpool.

Plantin S.A

Plantin S.A, located in France, is a manufacturer of medium series multi-layer rigid printed circuit boards. They are a subsidiary of CIRE Group (www.cire.fr), the tenth largest printed circuit board (PCB) fabricator in Europe and in the top 85 globally. Plantin produces 2,000 square meters of PCB material per month with a standard three-week turn-around. Like many low to medium volume PCB fabricators, Plantin is focused on reducing costs and increasing turn-around times in order to remain competitive in their industry.