It seems to me that every time I work our booth at a trade show, the same thing happens. A visitor walks onto the booth, delves into a tote bag and brings out a plastic tapered container – the kind used for spreads, olives, etc. “Can you label this?” is the question. While the answer is […]
Packaging
Innovative labeling, marking, and coding packaging solutions are available to meet unique product requirements. Features on these packaging machines include flexibility, high speed, and precision. Browse through these packing machinery demonstrations, displays, and showcases to learn more about packaging equipment and pack solutions.
The History of Clamshell Packaging
In 1978, the US inventor Thomas Jake Lunsford, took out a patent on his new package design, The Clamshell, a plastic blister package. A plastic blister package is a term for several types of pre-formed plastic packaging for small consumer goods, foods, and for pharmaceuticals. The primary component of a blister pack is a pocket made […]
High Speed Barcode Labeling – PowerMerge™
As supply chains become more data dependent, the ability to be able to print and apply barcode labels to shipping cases and wrapped trays is getting to be more important than ever. Our ID Technology range of label printer applicators is already the market leader and we are always refining our products to better meet our […]
Laser Coding for PET Bottles – Which Wavelength?
CO2 lasers are often used for adding variable information, such as date and lot codes to packaging materials. Most CO2 lasers that are sold for these applications produce a beam of light with a wavelength 10.6 µm, which works well on a wide range of materials. When dealing with products made of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), such […]
Promotional Labeling for Food Products
In the food industry, there is often a need to apply promotional labels to products – this might be simple labels, or multipart coupons, depending on the specific promotion. It can be a challenge to do this without disrupting existing production lines, especially if suitable labeling equipment is not readily available and labels/coupons need to be sourced […]
Labeling and Coding Solutions for the Wine Industry
The wine industry is faced with changing consumer preferences and demands. The wine connoisseurs of today require transparency, as well as traceability. They want access to information about the wine in order to compare prices, ingredients, and products. To accommodate this, some wine makes provide a detailed list of the ingredients used in the production […]
Improving the Efficiency of Your Packaging Lines
Everyone talks about needing to improve the efficiency of their packaging operation, but how can this really be achieved? ZPI from ProMach Performace Services is a tool designed to collect real-time data from your packaging equipment and give you total visibility of what is happening across your enterprise. ZPI can collect data from just about every […]
Labeling and Coding Solutions for Candy and Confections
Like many products in the food and beverage industries, the trend in candy and confection is towards reclosable bags, containers of bite-sized products, and a desire for innovative flavors and healthier ingredients. As a result, confections and candy are packaged into different types of plastic materials in addition to the paper outer wrapper or box. […]
The Flexible Labeling System
ID Technology’s EPI-9230 is an incredibly versatile labeling machine, able to accurately apply a label to the top, bottom, top, and bottom of a package, as well as being able to wrap a label around three sides – all on the same machine. As standard, the 9230 is equipped with two of our M-Series but […]
Food Industry seeking Regulatory delays
The Obama-era put requirements on the food industry to include: Calorie counts on menus by May of this year.Since the Trump administrations, petitions have been filed to delay or even stop regulations put into play by the Obama administration. New food labels that would put serving size and calorie information in large, boldfaced font and […]
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