Case Studies

At MARKEM, we are proud of our customers. We work with a broad range of companies, each with their own unique needs.

Increased coding efficiency at Valio UHT

The leading Finnish dairy group equipped its Turenki factory with MARKEM hot melt coders and achieved exceptional levels of reliability and cleanliness.

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 Labelling 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.

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.

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.

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.

Campina Meets EU Food Law Traceability

A thoughtful approach to integrated coding has resulted in fewer coding errors, increased production efficiency and cost-savings across multiple sites.

MARKEM APPLIES SMART THINKING AT GREENVALE

Greenvale AP, the UK’s largest fresh potato company, has dramatically improved the efficiency of its product coding process, thanks to close collaboration with MARKEM.

Unilever Finds Perfect Pallet

Unilever has successfully updated the Pallet Labelling hardware and software systems at the Unilever Ice Cream factory in Gloucester. Over the years, MARKEM has supplied the plant with Cimjet ‘print and apply’ case labellers, SmartLase laser coders, and a networking system to manage the coding and labelling operations. So when Unilever decided to install new pallet labellers on its production lines linked to its existing process control systems, the company turned to MARKEM for help.

Automating traceability meets Knorr's needs and EU regulations

Unilever automates the pallet-labeling and shipping operations at its production sites, including the Knorr plant in Loorsdrecht,The Netherlands, as part of a global productivity initiative to improve logistics, simplify compliance and cut costs.

Laser Coders Efficiently Hit Their Targets

A trio of laser coders give contract packager Reed-Lane Inc. the flexibility it needs to print on multiple substrates for its pharmaceutical customers.

Thermal Coders Do The Heavy Lifting

FRITZ CO., a 65-year-old family-owned and operated candy and snack packaging business, decided it was time to redesign its packaging for a fresh, new look.

The Sweetest Things

Confectionaries distributor saves valuable time and money with thermal-transfer coders

Sant’Anna di Vinadio

AN AUTOMATIC PALLETIZATION UNIT HAS BEEN INTRODUCED IN A BOTTLING FACILITY WITH AN OUTPUT OF 3 MILLION PIECES A DAY, WITH MAJOR COST SAVINGS. THE CODING SYSTEM WAS ALSO UPDATED.

Chips all the way

THE SUCCESS OF A BRAND Or how Amica Chips has managed in 15 years to impose its name and its product on the Italian market, vying with the timehonored snack brands. Best quality potato chips first and foremost, but also a great attention to the “non edible side” of the product like tracking & tracing, ensured by the coding and marking systems provided by Markem.

The Incredible Bulk

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

A watershed move to laser coding

To bring its bottle-coding process up to speed and enhance the appearance of its bottled water brands, Natural Springs Water Group opts for laser coding, which improves code clarity, equipment reliability and production-line efficiencies.

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.

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.

Lasers at Lipton

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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.

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.

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.

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.