Coding and marking specialist Rotech is to showcase its new RF1 range of stack to stack feeders at the PPMA Show - NEC Birmingham 27th-29th September Stand A60

French CIP-13 legislation has now come into force requiring pharmaceutical packs to carry not only a lot and expiry date, but also a 13 digit "CIP" number along with a 2-dimensional datamatrix barcode that carries the same information in a machine readable format.

Generally, offline coding is performed before the packaging meets the product, but there may be instances when it is more appropriate to print the pack after it is filled. One such case is the addition of a CIP-13 datamatrix bar code to the end flap of a pharmaceutical carton.

L’Oreal was having problems with line efficiency, causing a backlog of product. The printers seemed unreliable, and the bar codes were in danger of not scanning properly.

Multi-lane Thermal Transfer / Transpack Medical BACKGROUND Transpack Medical wanted to improve two areas of their overprinting operations:

Feeder 250 Thermal Transfer / Rotech help Unwins to grow their seed business BACKGROUND There can be few products that have more variations than plant seeds. At Unwin’s state-of-the-art distribution centre just off the A1 near Huntingdon, they pack seeds and bulbs for distribution direct to gardeners throughout the UK.