Logistics

With ever-increasing autonomy in supply chain management and automated warehouses, the relevance of our proven and continually evolving Document Print and Insertion System🖨️📃– for pick notes, manifests, invoices, etc. —is becoming increasingly prominent, with solid demand for the product. In this recent installation, which was part of an enhancement/extension project of our customer’s mixed-case fulfilment warehouse, our leading system…
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LPN labels – ‘Licence Plate Number’ – barcode labels are the logistics equivalent to the number plates on your car, providing a carton or tote with a unique identity used to route and track it. . This is fundamental to almost every other process in the warehouse, which is why some of the UK leading names rely on ALTech,…
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Reliable labelling solutions in automated E-commerce warehouses are critical to their infrastructure. That is why some of the UK’s biggest names trust ALTech to service their needs. In this recent installation, we apply up to four labels per carton, including both Domestic and International courier labels (Shipping labels), Battery labels and Hazard labels (at 45 degrees, as a diamond)…
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Are you a logistics company that manually prints and inserts documents? 📃 🖨️ We have a proven automated solution! Our document print and insertion system is a turnkey solution that can be easily added to almost any conveyor line, handling all box scanning and document processing activities, printing and dropping A4 or A5 documents in real-time – all you…
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Sometimes customers have unusual requirements, like this special ALstep tamp machine, where the customer needed to place labels at two height positions (depending on the arriving tote format). But our knowledgeable team are astutely expert at finding reliable and cost-effective solutions when faced with something new, usually via simple adaptation of an already existing modular solution. #Labelling #Labelingmachine #ALTech…
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This dual-head ALstep ‘Tamp-Blow’ application solution applies four matching barcodes to totes just after they have been moulded. These barcodes provide the tote with a unique identity for later use in an automated warehouse, and it is imperative all barcodes match. To ensure this, our solution also includes our ALcheck control checking system, which sequence matches the four barcodes…
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This recent installation extended stroke ALcode P pallet labelling machine uses our incredibly well-proven multi-axe movement application system allowing us to apply A5 labels on two pallet faces in a single stop. We have a comprehensive range of pallet labelling solutions for almost any requirement, including an exciting in-house developed ‘full robot’ solution to be released soon! Watch this…
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ALcode is a silent workhorse, labelling mail order cartons with both licence plate (LPN) and shipping labels quickly and efficiently in many leading UK automated logistics warehouses. In this video, we are using a SATO Europe S84EX print engine, applying unique LPN barcode labels to adjacent side faces of a ‘just erected’ carton, which will then be allocated and…
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ALTech have recently installed multiple ALritma and ALcode labelling heads into Smyths Toys’ new 500,000 sq.ft. Corby automated distribution warehouse with high bay storage and automated picking facilities. Smyths Toys, being one of the leading provider of children’s toys and entertainment products, require 24/7 operation and as such reliable and robust labelling machinery is critical to their business. There…
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June’s machine of the month is a pair of ALcode print and apply machines recently installed within Secured Mail, one of the largest technology enabled e-commerce, retail and postal logistics businesses in the UK. The two machines are configured in series with labels applied to the underside of the product, achieving a total throughput potential of more than 3,500…
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