- Geary Brewing Case Study
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 needed help automating the
date coding of ...
- 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 data onto each ...
- Nighthawk Foods
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 SKUs ...
- Food Supply Manufacturer Case Study
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.
CHALLENGES
THE ...
- Marburger Farm Dairy Case Study
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 into issues ...
- Service/Pet Food
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 agreement for scheduled ...
- Small Character Inkjet/Contract Packaging
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 the printers by ...
- Small Character Inkjet/Food Contract Packaging
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 amount ...
- Case Sealer/Pet Food
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 a new ...
- Thermal Inkjet/Prepared Foods
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 pouches.
Solution:
Diversified ...
- Thermal Inkjet/Prepared Foods
Problem:
This customer had a labor intensive process of forming boxes, filling the boxes with baked pizza crusts, hand taping the boxes and manually applying pressure sensitive barcode labels to the outside of the corrugated cases. Production would get backed up waiting for several operators to complete the end-of-line steps in the process.
Solution:
Mammoth Labels & Packaging sold this ...
- Thermal Inkjet/Fruit Jams & Toppings
Problem:
The customer had requirements to upgrade his high-resolution large character inkjet system due to downtime and poor print quality. Cost for repair for each printhead was averaging $3,200-$4,000 every two years. The high cost for ink and frequent priming were continuously rising.
Solution:
Hitachi installed two thermal inkjet systems capable of printing 2” of print height. The new ...
- Thermal Inkjet/Beverage
Problem:
This customer needed a solution for mismarked glass and plastic bottles of liquor. The plant’s quality assurance manager figured the plant was processing 1,000 mismarked bottles daily. These bottles were half printed, smudged or printed with the wrong batch numbers and/or date codes. The Q&A manager reached out to Raab Sales looking for a way ...
- Thermal Inkjet/Baked Goods
Problem:
The packaging department of this Michigan manufacturer was printing high resolution product information, expiry dates and bar codes on two or four sides of generic cartons. The case coding equipment used sealed printheads which were not repairable once contaminated with carton dust and angel hair from the gluing systems. The contamination and “bad channels” caused ...
- Label Applicator/Baked Goods
Problem:
This manufacturing facility was looking to automate their labeling process, as their current process had them hand applying two different labels to their primary package. The customer was outsourcing to another company to preprint rolls of multi-colored product labels that were hand applied to their packages. The second label was printed onsite with a thermal ...
- Solutions in the Fruit and Vegetable Industry
Problem:
This customer was using a thermal inkjet printer to mark a date code on their plastic bottle caps. The print was not clear, and the operator had to wipe the print-head after each print. The process was very labor intensive and expensive.
Solution:
PIN Distributor upgraded this customer to a small character continuous inkjet system. The new ...
- Small Character Printers/Soup
Problem:
This customer’s product facility can be hard on packaging equipment. They struggled with their existing small character continuous inkjet systems. Their requirements called for moving the coders around depending on the line configuration that was running that day.
The manufacturer was not getting reliable performance from the existing coders. Coder reliability became such a problem that ...
- Small Character Inkjet/Soup
Problem:
This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment on their food line. They had many issues with existing printers and needed to upgrade. The printing application called for a date and lot code to be printed on the top of a can after it was filled and sealed. After being printed, the product was ...
- Small Character Inkjet/Prepared Foods
Problem:
This customer had older continuous inkjet systems that were a battle to keep running. The customer was spending 30-60 minutes per day cleaning and adjusting the printers to keep them running. Besides the climbing labor costs associated with the daily maintenance of the machines, the downtime become unacceptable because of the company’s growth.
Solution:
PIN Distributor, Colorado Scale ...
- Small Character Inkjet/Prepared Foods
Problem:
The customer had requirements to print on both paperboard and high-density polyethylene tubs of chicken salad and the like. The customer’s current printers were old and troublesome.
Solution:
Hitachi installed a small character inkjet printer on a trial. The printer features a piston pump system with electric motor to circulate the ink as opposed to the common circulation ...
- Dairy Industry Solution
Problem:
This client in Virginia had requirements to upgrade older small character continuous inkjet printers. The older coders were not reliable and were costly to maintain. Since there were four printers, those maintenance costs added up quickly.
Solution:
The local PIN distributor demonstrated new small character continuous inkjet printers that boasted automatic nozzle seal technology, a feature that ...
- Candy Industry Solutions
Problem:
The customer was using laser printers to mark on decorative tins and paper board packaging. The laser removed the paint of the decorative surface making the packaging less attractive. The laser could not mark on the bottom of the tin because it was unpainted, and the laser was not powerful enough to burn into the ...
- Thermal Transfer Overprinter/Drink and Baking Mixes
Problem:
A popular powdered mix company was producing some of the country’s finest drink and baking mixes but had been receiving complaints from their customers about the inferior quality of the product identification on each of their bags. Unfortunately, the customer had originally outfitted their VFFS baggers with in-line inkjet coders, which were simply not up ...
- Thermal Transfer Overprinter/Dairy
Problem:
The customer was using small character CIJ printers to print two lines of text on two liter and five liter bags of smoothie and shake mixes sold to a major fast food restaurant chain. The fast food chain changed their print specifications to eight lines of text in mixed font sizes and multi-lingual product information. ...
- Thermal Transfer Overprinter/Candy
Problem:
This customer was utilizing a thermal transfer overprinter for their printing application. However, the printer’s performance was unreliable and the current vendor provided poor service and support. The downtime was eating up of this manufacturer’s efficiencies.
Solution:
PIN Distributor, Mammoth Labels & Packaging, provided a new thermal transfer over-printer to print continuous codes onto the candy wrappers. The ...
- Seafood Industry Solution
Problem:
This customer was hand applying labels to jars of oysters requiring multiple workers. Demand often called for the increase in the number of workers and increased production costs.
Solution:
PIN Distributor, Industrial & Shippers Supply, teamed up with multiple vendors to implement automation to the process. The solution consisted of a new small character continuous inkjet printer and ...
- Beverage Industry Solutions
Problem:
The beer brewer was using a mechanical hot stamp to apply a simple, one-line date code on preprinted beer bottle labels prior to the labels being applied to the bottles. The hot stamp had become unreliable and produced uneven print quality. It also required manual type changes for each new date. It was difficult to ...
- Poultry Industry Solution
Problem:
When this major poultry packer was having continuous problems with a wellknown competitor’s thermal thermal transfer overprinters, they were given an ultimatum – trade up to the extremely expensive new premium model of the manufacturer’s TTO printers or lose service and support for the old models already installed and needing constant repair. That was about ...
