Pharmaceutical

August’s machine of the month is an ALcheck system designed for A&S Packing, a leading contract packer with multiple sites in the UK; and in this case shrink sleeving bottles for a principal pharmaceutical manufacturer. A&S use the ALcheck 2D pharmacode reader to inspect a unique 2D Matrix format barcode on the sleeve of the product. The 2D code is…
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ALTech have recently installed a vial wraparound labelling system within a major European pharmaceutical company. The customer requested an off-line system to allow a single operator to easily un-load and re-load the vials to and from trays. The machine was also required to include all of the typical pharma features such as variable data printing, camera controls, recipe managing,…
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February’s machine of this month is a labelling system designed for a leading European pharmaceutical company. The requirement of the machine is to apply a label on the opening sides of a box to provide a tamper evidence seal. To achieve this a label is applied on both opening sides and then bent around the edge to seal the…
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August’s machine of the month is a wrap-around ALpharma labelling system built for Tcoag, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer of haemostasis reagents. The system is designed to handle a wide range of vial sizes (16mm to 40mm in diameter) made of both glass and plastic. It has the ability to label 200 vials per minute and is built in strict…
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December’s machine of the month is a system which applies wrap labels to plastic tube vials, designed to be inserted into the filling line of an important French pharmaceutical company. The drum feeder receives vials from the filler in a horizontal position and places each vial onto a roller conveyor to be labelled. The machine meets the demands of the…
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