Food & Beverage

Coding and Marking in the food and beverage industry

The current trends show that consumers are increasingly giving a thought to a healthy and safe supply chain. They are keen to know more than just what goes into their food. This is why ingredients, batch numbers and shelf life information always need to be clearly identifiable. Furthermore, reports about product recalls and consumption warnings are increasingly common worldwide.

Calls for food safety and efficiency by responsible authorities are on the rise and this is why nowadays manufacturers are confronted with increasingly stringent requirements for correct, consistent and legally compliant product coding.

The more transparent a company is, the better for its consumer confidence, customer retention and brand loyalty.

The beverage industry is characterised by production throughput of as much as 100 000 bottles per hour! This is why coding of best before and manufactured dates, batch numbers amongst other necessary information in small letters has to be done within the shortest possible time and during ongoing production. With our coding solutions, JetONE, Jet2NeoS, Jet3UP, coding can be applied at the bottom of the can, on the concave or convex part or on the label at slow or rapid speeds.

Our printers offer the right solutions for every requirement in the foods and beverage categories of;

Sweets

Snacks

Biscuits

Electrical and automation engineering in the food and beverage industry

The manufacture of the products in the food and beverage industry involves processes that operate at certain optimum temperatures and pressures within specified times. The processes also involve the mixing of raw materials at specified ratios and proportions in order to achieve the desired quality and palatability. They also utilise mechanisms that ensure that the right quantities of the products are placed in the containers/packages, not to mention the obvious fact that the production lines use electrical and mechanical equipment in the form of electric motor driven conveyor belts along with pulleys, gearboxes and bearings, labelers, shrink tunnels and shrink wrapping machines with purely electrical control panels, to mention but a few. Patricole is there to optimise manufacturing processes by supplying high quality electrical, mechanical and automation products, these include;