Labelling premium smallgoods
10 September, 2007Barkly Continental is a supplier of top grade, hand made specialty European-style hams, sausages, and other pickled and smoked pork products
Traceability and shipment verification for bakery
30 July, 2007Groupe Jacquet, of the Limagrain group, is a major bakery with facilities throughout France and Belgium, shipping over 70,000 boxes of bread a day to hundreds of customers
Success for Australian EPC/RFID pilot
12 July, 2007Radio frequency identification (RFID) using GS1 global standards can improve productivity, reduce delivery processing times and open up visibility throughout the supply chain for the benefit of all trading partners, according to a multi-industry Australian consortium.
Collaboration to apply RFID technologies in New Zealand
09 July, 2007Radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies can make a major contribution to New Zealand’s economic development, according to Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group.
A label for 'Australian Grown'
05 June, 2007The ‘Australian Grown’ logo has now been launched, allowing consumers to identify packaged food that has been grown on Australian farms.
Wet and steamy coding
21 May, 2007Coding plastic pouches in a wet steamy environment has proved no problem for the latest small character ink jet printer from Videojet
Front of package nutritional labelling
14 May, 2007A new nutritional food and beverage labelling scheme is set to aid Australians in the fight against the country's current overweight and obesity epidemic
European patent for laser marking technique
26 April, 2007A European patent has been granted to DataLase for the new pigment that forms the basis of the company’s laser marking products for primary and secondary packaging – the Packmark and Casemark flexo and tape.
Labelling polystyrene boxes made easier
13 April, 2007The producer of polystyrene boxes for a group of Queensland fruit and vegetable growers recently move another step forward, with an improved method of labelling the shipping boxes they produce
Full colour product label printer
13 November, 2006Labelling specialist Peacock Bros. has introduced a full colour ink jet label printer from Primera.
Reduced space symbology seminar
27 October, 2006GS1 New Zealand is bringing two leading authorities on bar code symbology to New Zealand. Bar code symbology will be a retail standard with effect from January 2010.
Pilot plant for labelling technology
11 October, 2006By purposefully upgrading its applications engineering capabilities, with multifaceted options for customised testing and consultancy, Krones' labelling plant can offer its clients specifically tailored solutions to their problem
How much can fit on a label?
13 September, 2006Consumers have a basic right to know what they are purchasing. They need information so that they can make informed decisions. But when does enough information become too much?
DOD coder for Cheetham Salt
11 August, 2006Cheetham Salt is Australia's largest producer and refiner of salt. Its 12 solar salt fields nationally produce an annual total of more than 1.4 million tonnes, which is processed at six refineries
Global adoption of the RSS bar code
10 July, 2006GS1, the organisation that locally administers the global multi-industry system of identification and communication, has announced a global sunrise date of January 2010 for all scanning systems to read reduced space symbology (RSS) bar codes on any trade item.
