Case Studies

At MARKEM, we are proud of our customers. We work with a broad range of companies, each with their own unique needs.

Markem Offers Food for Thought with Innovative Labeling Solution

Loxton Foods, producer of award-winning frozen ready-prepared meals, has enlisted the services of Markem, supplier of coding and marking systems, to ensure the smooth-running of the company’s busy production line.

More Quality and Efficiency For Lutosa with MARKEM Systems

Lutosa-Van den Broeke, a Belgium company that converts potatoes into different final products (frozen fries, potato flakes,and fresh fries), uses Markem SmartDate,Cimjet and 5000 series coders for quality and efficiency in their production facility.

CONGALSA: Combining traditional ‘home-made’ taste with today’s quality.

Since the company was founded in the early 1990’s, CONGALSA has built a reputation for the quality of its frozen, ready-cooked seafood dishes combined with the highest levels of service. Today it has more than 600 retail and wholesale customers in 25 countries, supplying both branded and private label products.

Unilever Finds Perfect Pallet Solution with Unilever

Unilever has successfully updated the Pallet Labelling hardware and software systems at the Unilever Ice Cream factory in Gloucester. Over the years, MARKEM has supplied the plant with Cimjet ‘print and apply’ case labellers, SmartLase laser coders, and a networking system to manage the coding and labelling operations. So when Unilever decided to install new pallet labellers on its production lines linked to its existing process control systems, the company turned to MARKEM for help.

MARKEM Applies Smart Thinking at Greenvale

Greenvale AP, the UK’s largest fresh potato company, has dramatically improved the efficiency of its product coding process, thanks to close collaboration with MARKEM.

MARKEM is Cream of the Crop

Leading chilled dairy foods company, Dairy Crest, has dramatically improved the efficiency of its coding and labelling processes and made major cost savings by installing an integrated solution from MARKEM’s Systems Integration team.

Markem Offers Food For Thought with Innovative Labelling Solution

Loxton Foods, producer of award-winning ready-prepared meals, has requested the services of Markem, the UK’s leading supplier of coding and marking systems, to ensure the smooth-running of the company’s busy production line.

MARKEM - Choc Full of Good Ideas

Master chocolatier Thorntons has dramatically reduced its batch changeover times, creating the potential to produce an additional output of 1,000,000 chocolate bars per year, by installing MARKEM’s SmartDate 5s thermal transfer coder on one of its major packaging lines.

Warburtons Gets Smart With Laser Coders

Warburtons is relying on the reliability and quality of MARKEM’s SmartLase 100i laser coder for applying variable date codes to its boxes of new ‘All in One Riddlers’ pre-filled bread rolls.

New MARKEM System Creates a Fizz at Coca Cola

Markem, the UK’s leading provider of coding and marking systems, has created a fizz at Coca-Cola Enterprises, after improving labelling efficiency on the soft drinks manufacturer’s production lines.

Markem’s Integrated Solution for Spuds

Major Belgian potato processor, Lutosa-Van den Broeke, has dramatically improved the quality and efficiency of its coding and labelling processes by installing a completely integrated Markem solution across its 35 packaging lines.

Markem Provides the Winning Formula

A major food manufacturer has used the software expertise of MARKEM Systems, the UK’s leading provider of coding and marking systems, in a successful on-pack promotion.

Plantin S.A

Plantin S.A, located in France, is a manufacturer of medium series multi-layer rigid printed circuit boards. They are a subsidiary of CIRE Group (www.cire.fr), the tenth largest printed circuit board (PCB) fabricator in Europe and in the top 85 globally. Plantin produces 2,000 square meters of PCB material per month with a standard three-week turn-around. Like many low to medium volume PCB fabricators, Plantin is focused on reducing costs and increasing turn-around times in order to remain competitive in their industry.

New French Pharmaceutical Law Poses Printing Challenge

Thermal overprinting onto small size labels (55mm × 35mm maximum) is playing a key role in allowing European pharmaceuticals suppliers to meet specific requirements for the French market, which came into effect at the beginning of 1997.

Lasers at Lipton

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Lipton installs 13 laser printers for its tea cartons that increase line speeds, produce significantly better quality codes, use no toxic inks and require no consumables.

From luxury commodity to convenience product

Today's consumer is often spoiled when it comes to the multitude of spices and spice mixtures: The market is offering gourmets a large selection of compositions, which make even home-cooked meals more exciting. Manufacturers of spice mixtures are providing plenty of ideas. Those who would like to refine their culinary talents have plenty of possibilities at their fingertips. Such lavish multitude of spice mixtures make us easily forget that spices were rather scarce in the ancient world and in medieval times. They frequently were the cause for warlike conflicts, because pepper, cinnamon or ginger had to be imported by boat from India, China or Indonesia. Those who could afford to buy spices were considered to be rich individuals.

A Case/Carton Coding Makeover

Automating its ink-jet coding processes relieved Pharmaceutical Specialties of preprinted cases and messy inks for a range of irritant-free lotions, haircare, skin care and suncare products. The results afford quality printing, instantly dry codes and lower packaging costs.

Foodservice firm makes its case

Mark-Lynn Foods employs 29 case coders at its Bremen, GA, facility. The networked machines improve reliability and lessen labor costs.

The good wine code

From its origins in Veneto, the Zonin family has established itself in the other major wine-growing regions of Italy, with ambitious targets for growth in all product areas. Today it closes the first balance for its hi-tech bottling plant installed a year ago for the prestigious wines of its Sicilian vineyard, a plant fitted with laser and resin jet coding systems from Markem.