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View Luxury Brands Sitting Pretty with Codes

Luxury Brands Sitting Pretty with Codes

5 mins |Kirsty Burrage

Premium products such as cosmetics, perfume and luxury food rely on beautifully designed packaging to reflect the quality of their product and achieve their shelf appeal. Quality is paramount and the luxury category tend to favour clean, minimalistic packaging over busy designs with cluttered messaging.

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View Continuous Inkjet vs Thermal Inkjet Printing

Continuous Inkjet vs Thermal Inkjet Printing

3 mins

Continuous Inkjet (CIJ), the fast-drying, non-contact printing technology has been the preferred method to code and mark packaging for many years. It’s ability to print on to virtually any surface at high-speed meant that it was unrivalled for many applications. Until now that is.

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View Sizing Up Ready Meal Coding Trends

Sizing Up Ready Meal Coding Trends

3 mins

Manufacturers in the growing ready meals sector are facing increasing challenges regarding the labelling and coding of convenience food products.

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View Contact Vs Contact-Free Coding: A Guide

Contact Vs Contact-Free Coding: A Guide

5 mins

The terms ‘contact’ and ‘contact-free’ are often used in relation to industrial coding, but what do they actually mean and why does it matter whether a coder is contact-free or not? Richard Pether, director at coding and marking specialist Rotech, discusses the suitability of each method in a number of commonly encountered coding scenarios.

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View Coding With The RF Auto: More Versatility Delivers More productivity

Coding With The RF Auto: More Versatility Delivers More productivity

3 mins

Rotech has developed its new offline RF Auto sleeve and carton friction feeder in response to the coding and handling challenges of the latest ‘lift-the-flap’-style luxury pack sleeves.

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View Rewind, Play, Fast Foward: Coding Past, Present and Future

Rewind, Play, Fast Foward: Coding Past, Present and Future

This year, Rotech Machines, the coding integration and feeding systems specialist, celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark this milestone, company director Richard Pether looks back through the decades on coding technologies and what is instore for the future.

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View Rotech Cracks Cost, Speed and Waste Packaging Coding Challenges at Empack 2017

Rotech Cracks Cost, Speed and Waste Packaging Coding Challenges at Empack 2017

3 mins

Rotech Machines will be exhibiting two exciting additions to its range at Empack 2017, highlighting how food SMEs can tackle cost, speed of coding and waste without compromising on packaging shelf appeal.

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View Feeding For Coding: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Feeding For Coding: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

3 mins

When buying a new offline coding system, choosing the shiny new printer is usually where the attention is focused, while working out how the pack will be fed to that coder becomes an afterthought.

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View 50% Faster Pouch Coding With New RF Pouch

50% Faster Pouch Coding With New RF Pouch

4 mins

Rotech, the Hertfordshire designer of end-to-end coding and feeding systems, is using PPMA as the launch-pad for a new offline coder dedicated to pouches. A customer-driven development of the RF1-V, the new RF1-V+ offers a 50% improvement in speed through design innovations including a shingling infeed and extended reservoir capacity.

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