A national manufacturer of peanut brittle was looking for a way to reduce labor and consumable costs associated with their labeling process. The company’s existing labeling system employed a Universal Label applicator to apply two primary side labels and one top label to their product. In addition, a separate, smaller label showing the manufactured date of the product was manually applied onto the side label.

The existing labeling system was experiencing frequent downtime events, not to mention the process was extremely labor intensive...

A manufacturer of a national whipped cream brand was considering the addition of a new labeling application to its production facility. The company wanted an integrated labeling system with the ability to print and apply bar code labels and inkjet text codes on their shipping cases...

A co-packer manufacturing private label food products was experiencing problems with its print & apply labeling system. The existing system was no longer meeting the manufacturer’s requirements for speed and reliability, not to mention they were experiencing issues with the supplier’s servicing of the equipment...

A national manufacturer of nutraceutical products was experiencing explosive growth. This growth was making the use of pre-printed decorative labels obsolete because pre-printed labels did not offer the level of product identification and tracking necessitated by this growth.

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