Labeling and coding

Fresh and frozen fish products are usually packed in skin packs or trays with a simple label or partially-wrapped cardboard sleeve for presentation, a solution that often fails to convey to consumers the high quality of the product.

The marking requirements of the cosmetics industry have always been among the most complex and particular. The ink-jet markers used in this field must guarantee, at the same time, production capacity, reliability and superior quality printing, for the best aesthetic result as well as perfect readability.

Eurocoding ribbons range is composed of solutions in line with the highest quality standards. Patented, designed according to sustainability criteria, compliant with RoHS and REACH restrictions and validated by ISEGA tests, they are made with every kind of material available on the market: wax, wax-resin, resin.

International printing ink producer Hubergroup Print Solutions has launched HYDRO-X GA Water Barrier Coating, a new water-repellent water-based coating formulated for surface printing of food and non-food packaging that avoids the need for PE film lamination as a water barrier.

The UK branch of Skanem, a leading European manufacturer of self-adhesive labels, is a major user of Fujifilm inks, from the range of screen printing inks adopted in the 1990s through to the Sericol Flexo JD series introduced in 2007 and still in use today.

Eurocoding proposes Pk52, a desktop label applicator (single or double-sided) for cylindrical containers with diameter between 10 and 110 mm designed for the industrial market, thanks to the excellent construction quality and the strong and resistant structure, mainly in stainless steel aisi304. 

Among the innumerable labelling solutions that Altech can offer, in-phase labelling is certainly one of the most sophisticated. This kind of labelling is suitable where it is necessary to apply one or more labels in precise points on the product (mainly with a cylindrical shape). 

With its latest delivery to the Ting Hsin International Group, Sidel has reached a major new milestone of 5,000 labellers sold worldwide.

Informative note published by Conai on January 5, 2021: what the Decree of September 3, 2020 provides for and the changes introduced by the Decree "Milleproroghe 2021" regarding the environmental labeling obligation.

Among the labeling solutions developed by Wide Range, the Counter Xtra Label model is able to apply labels on labels and, at the same time, thanks to an inkjet printing device, can customize them with progressive numbering and 3D codes.
All this using large rolls up to 400 mm in diameter at a speed of over 50 m/min.
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Among Finpac’s top-of-the-line shrink sleeve applicators, the HS series is a high-speed solution (up to 72,000 bph); it can also be configured in twin head, with dual in-line application head, and dual lane, with dual head and dual inlet/outlet.

Eidos collaborates directly with OEMs, leading to increasingly efficient products with a high degree of integration with packaging lines.

Etipack renews its brand identity, evolving its historic trademark in the name of continuity

On November 11, Durst's Label & Flexible Packaging team will present the expanded Tau RSC portfolio online from the Durst HQ.
 

Through a partnership with UK-based Domino Printing, the German finishing machine specialist Rotocontrol is launching DT 2.0 Hybrid for digital label printing and finishing.

Thanks to the skills acquired over years of activity in the sector of product identification and traceability, IMPRIMA has identified in the TT System created by Avery the ideal technological solution to express a new concept of food safety, and not only there, since many sectors potentially invovled.

At the request of a French cosmetic manufacturer, Etipack has designed an automatic labeling system for the application of pressure-sensitive labels on quadrangular and cylindrical cosmetic products, with one-sided operator management.

Markem-Imaje, part of the Imaging & Identification division of Dover Corporation (New York), has announced the acquisition of Warsaw-based company Solaris Laser, which has served the marking and coding industry for more than 25 years with the supply of advanced fibre, ultraviolet and CO2 laser systems. 

Cold finishing becomes sustainable in a sleeve designed by Luxoro to clad an amaro bottle, a perfect synthesis between tradition and modernity.

I pazienti che soffrono di allergie potenzialmente letali portano sempre con sé un medicinale salvavita: un auto-iniettore di adrenalina da usarsi immediatamente per contrastare lo shock anafilattico.