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From company updates to helpful hints and tips - Rotech's blog is a one stop shop for coding & marking and packaging information.

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View A sleek new look for our feeding systems

A sleek new look for our feeding systems

|Hope Jones |Kirsty Burrage

The new branding is both sleek, smart, and stylish, with pops of bright orange that Rotech are well known for. You may have heard of the saying “sisters not twins.”  and I feel like that has been reflected in the design across the machines.

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View Feeling snowed under?

Feeling snowed under?

| 3 mins |Kirsty Burrage

Spikes in demand can throw even the most well-oiled production process into a frenzy, with the workforce generally picking up the slack, working longer hours or trying to work quicker – which can often lead to more errors and staff burnout.

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View Why choose Rotech as your thermal inkjet supplier?

Why choose Rotech as your thermal inkjet supplier?

| 4 mins |Kirsty Burrage

Over recent years, the benefits of TIJ have become much more widely known, and as a result, there are a growing number of companies offering it. Here are the factors to consider before choosing a supplier.

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View Why date code your packaging sleeves off-line?

Why date code your packaging sleeves off-line?

|Kirsty Burrage

Standalone off-line coding systems, or feeders, are ideal for printing date or batch information onto packaging sleeves – providing flexibility and accuracy where needed.

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View Flexible Pouch Coding Solutions From Rotech

Flexible Pouch Coding Solutions From Rotech

| 1 min

If you were to look at all the products bought in your weekly supermarket shop, chances are many of them would be packaged in pouches or bags. They’re a packaging type that is continuing to see huge growth, and for good reason.

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View The RF Lite Range – The Triple Threat of Off-line Coding

The RF Lite Range – The Triple Threat of Off-line Coding

| 3 mins |Kirsty Burrage

All of the RF Lite systems have been created with the same initial goal in mind; to help producers move away from coding and labelling their packaging by hand – a slow process that can often result in miscoded packs which have to be thrown away.

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View Integra PP Razr 34 – Best of Both Worlds?

Integra PP Razr 34 – Best of Both Worlds?

| 2 mins |Richard Pether

The launch of the Integra PP Razr 34 printer is something of a revelation in that it runs with the same inks used in a TIJ printer, but offers a seamless, 34mm print height.

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View What is batch coding and why is it so important?

What is batch coding and why is it so important?

| 5 minutes |Kirsty Burrage

Simply speaking, batch coding is the process in which an identifiable code, usually made up of both letters and numbers, is applied to a product and/or it’s packaging. It’s a code that will be given to a group of identical products that were all produced at the same time, on the same date, at the same location, using the same ingedients etc.

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