CASE STUDY Geary Brewing Incorporated in 1983, Geary Brewing is New England’s first craft brewery in the post-prohibition era. This innovative brewery started a craft beer movement when it poured its flagship beer, Geary’s Pale Ale, in the winter of 1986, and since then, it has developed an extensive line of heritage beers. The company…
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Giant Jones Brewing Company Case Study
CASE STUDY Giant Jones Brewing Company Giant Jones Brewing Company is an independent, woman-owned brewery in Madison, Wisconsin. As Wisconsin’s only certified organic brewery, their team needed to improve and automate their bottling and canning line. The existing label applicator and conveyor did not add the bottled date and ABV to the labels. The Giant Jones Brewing team was handwriting this…
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SITE DETAILS Nighthawk Foods is a medium-sized food manufacturer specializing in various packaged food product for retail distribution. The company needed help managing its preprinted SKU box inventory, which led to inefficiencies in its production process and increased costs. To address this issue, they turned to CodeMark Systems, which offered a solution to reduce their…
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SITE DETAILS Over the span of 22 years in the food manufacturing industry as an Automation Engineer/Maintenance Manager, I have used a variety of different printers for our food labeling needs. Each machine had different pros and cons, but the Leibinger CIJ printers from SSI Packaging Group have surpassed other models available on the market….
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SITE DETAILS In business since 1938, Marburger Farm Dairy has provided high-quality and award-winning dairy milk, tea products, and dairy by-products to the Evans City, PA area. On average, they print 370,000 plastic bottles per month or 100,000 per day. CHALLENGES With the volume of the product requiring inkjet printing, Marburger Farm Dairy consistently ran…
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Problem: This customer was operating a 24/7 facility and could not get quick enough response working directly with the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on a variety of marking and coding equipment. Solution: PIN Distributor, Mammoth Labels & Packaging, was able to offer support of all of the customer’s marking and coding equipment with a maintenance…
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Problem: This co-packer was utilizing several small character inkjet printers from top manufacturers. The systems were old and unreliable. This co-packer runs approximately a million plus units of goods per day on 14 lines. The downtime caused by the old printers translated into significant costs. Solution: Solution: This customer embarked on a project to replace…
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Problem: This leading provider of processing and packaging services to America’s food industry needed small character inkjet printers to keep up with their growing capacity. This customer prints on a number of different substrates including chipboard, plastics and plastic bottles. Some of the these containers are microwavable, so the product code must withstand a significant…
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Problem: The pet food manufacturing facility in Kansas had packaging requirements from the company’s marketing leadership to use a smaller than average-size case for their product packaging. The customer reported that the current case sealers on site were not capable of running boxes of the newly required smaller size. Solution: PIN Distributor, Raab Sales, provided…
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Problem: This client was using small character continuous inkjet printers to print on taco and pasta pouches on their fillers at a rate of about 800 pouches per minute. They were having many service issues related to the existing units and were looking for an alternative way of printing flavors and date codes on the…
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