Machine of the Month

Monthly spotlight on ALTech UK machines.


Front and Back Oval Bottle Labelling System

July’s machine of the month is an ALline E system built for a producer of cosmetics and toiletries. The machine delivers an accurate and quality application of front and back labels to oval shampoo and soap bottles and is placed in the customer’s filling line, operating at 60 bottles per minute. The solution is equipped with a timing screw…


Tamper Evident Pharmaceutical Labelling System

June’s machine of the month is an ALpharma system manufactured for a global pharmaceutical company. The machine was required to apply tamper evident seals to both ends of a carton and a third hologram label for anti-counterfeiting at a rate of 200 boxes per minute. It also incorporates a checking system to inspect and automatically reject any incorrectly labelled…


Shrink Sleeve Barcode & Label Inspection System

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…


Drinks Can Labelling Machine (Beer Cans)

July’s machine of the month is an ALbelt C wrap-around labeller designed to label 16 ounce beer cans for a craft brewery in the United States. The solution was required to label a wide variety of beers cans (including seasonal beers) to resolve the problem of purchasing more costly and inflexible pre-printed cans. In response the labeller applies clear…


Plastic Container Wraparound Labelling System

June’s machine of the month is a labelling system designed to apply a full wraparound label to cylindrical plastic containers containing cooking salt. Built for a leading Italian food company, the system is designed to apply a wraparound label with overlapping ends to give the salt shakers a uniform coloured, aesthetic appearance. The machine is integrated into the customer’s…


Jar & Bottle Tamper Tab & Body Labelling System

May’s machine of the month is a jar and bottle labelling system design and built for Cottage Delight, producers and purveyors of speciality foods such as jams, chutneys, biscuits and sauces. Based in Leek in the Peak District, they offer cottage industry products and manufacturing processes, and whilst they still maintain their original kitchen processes, they approached ALTech to…


Multi Panel Jar Labelling System

April’s machine of the month is an entry level ALbelt E multi panel jar labelling system designed for Sun Valley, a market leading supplier of nuts and dried fruit mixes. The solution was fitted with a U-gate adaptation system, to facilitate an accurate multi panel label application on three faces of the jars. It also uses ALTech’s well proven side…


Peel and Reseal Labelling System

March’s machine of this month is an ALstep based long arm labelling solution for integration into a vertical form fill and seal (VFFS) bagging machine. Multiple systems were supplied to a food company producing salted snacks to apply consumer convenience ‘peel and reseal’ labels to the preformed bag. This flexible solution was retro-installed on a number of different VFFS machines at…


Reverse Tuck Carton Tamper Seal Labelling System

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…


Flat Sack Feed & Labelling System

January’s machine of the month is a flat sack feed & labelling system recently installed by ALTech into Trouw Nutrition (formerly Frank Wright), a leading supplier of nutritional products and services to the animal feed industry. Trouw Nutrition are labelling more than 7 million sacks per year and have come back to ALTech for a second ALfeed machine following…


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