📦 So simple. So smooth. So flexible. Now installed and running in production — the flexibility of this case and shipper labelling solution speaks for itself. Label the side panel, or rotate the entire box 90° to label the short face, all via a simple guide rail movement — no tool change, no faff, no compromise. 🔹 Smooth, reliable…
🧠 Tamper Evidence. Without the hammers. Tamper-evident plastic containers — like Berry Global’s UniPak range — are a smart packaging choice for chilled food, deli, and takeaway products. But despite their popularity, square polypropylene tubs, Tupperware-style pots, and other snap-lid containers can be difficult to seal efficiently on automated lines. With locking lid tabs requiring pressure from multiple angles,…
🔄 Labelling without stopping — because production doesn’t wait. This short clip features two impressive twin-head labelling systems — both just completed for the same high-volume UK food processor, and both running comfortably at high frequency. These machines are designed for non-stop production, with seamless automatic changeover between the two heads — meaning: • No missed labels • No…
📈 Agile labelling for agile businesses. Are extensive holdings of pre-printed packaging — driven by supplier MOQs — blunting your business’s dynamism? At ALTech, we provide turnkey solutions to help mitigate these issues, offering short-run re-labelling systems for almost any product type, complete with tailored handling and stacking where needed. In this example, the customer needed to print and…
📦 Clever design creates a case/shipper labeller without compromises. Labelling outer cartons and shipper boxes shouldn’t be complex — but that doesn’t mean it should be limited. This solution, shown with our workhorse ALstep T applicator, demonstrates just how adaptable a well-designed system with some smart features like a ‘track guided’ conveyor can be. Label the side of the…
⚙️ ALcode Smart Tamp – the intelligent choice. This new variant of our proven ALcode print & apply system features our ‘Smart Tamp’ module — a composite carbon fibre cylinder with vacuum generated by a fan pulled directly through the tube, allowing flexibility for different label sizes without change parts. Application is controlled by an intelligent ‘light touch’ logic,…
🍯 Honey from the bees needs a labeller to make things a breeze! This week’s spotlight is on a recently installed #ALline labelling system, set on a diversified farm estate in the stunning Lake District. Delivering premium quality labelling for premium quality #honey, this turnkey solution features a @SATO Europe print engine for real-time personalisation of the tamper-evident lid…
🍓 Labelling at full throttle for peak strawberry season. As the UK strawberry season kicks into full swing, punnet lines are moving fast — and so must the labelling. Here, ALritma labelling heads apply promotional top labels at high speed, inline with a @Proseal UK Ltd GT2 top-seal punnet line delivering punnets in batches of six at a proud…
📦 Make it. Box it. Label it – efficiently. Almost every manufacturer of something puts that something in a box — but too often those boxes are still being labelled by hand. Even with smaller batch runs, there’s a better way. This system uses our ALcode ‘airblast’ print and apply applicator, with a SATO NX print engine and optional…
Precision labelling MDF boards at high speed – even in the toughest conditions. This ALTech UK installation features multiple ALritma X labelling heads, running comfortably at over 120m/min to apply product ID labels directly to MDF boards in a dusty, high-throughput timber environment. The system is gantry-mounted above the line with motorised raise/lower adjustment and a 90° rotation support,…