Machine Type

The proof is in the pudding 🍰 A new machine is just completing workshop testing for an existing customer — a dessert manufacturer who asked us to build them a repeat case labelling system. But this time, we decided to go one better. The customer applies large labels with a lot of printed information, making the application ideally suited…
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Friction feeding, printing, labelling and collating — in one offline system ⚙️ Continuing the theme of offline feeding, labelling and collating solutions, here is another recently supplied system from ALTech UK. This machine is designed for automatic feeding, variable data printing, labelling, and restacking of flat products — in this case, labelled sampler cards for a bathroom samples customer….
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Calm Before the Storm: Anticipation In a few days’ time, this space will look very different. The warehouse will be full of stock, and this ALline system will be doing exactly what it was designed to do: processing tens, and potentially hundreds, of thousands of products while applying promotional and barcode labels accurately and consistently. Built around our market-leading…
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Simply does it for a Clarkson’s Farm–featured Cotswold mill 🌾 Another neat example of a simple, practical labelling solution doing exactly what is needed. This compact shrink-pack labelling machine is now in place at a long-established Cotswold flour mill, familiar to many viewers from its appearance on Clarkson’s Farm, and through its supply relationship with @Diddly Squat Farm Shop….
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With this ALline labelling system, only the information varies; the positioning does not. ⚙️🎯 This video shows a high-quality ALline pail labelling system in final testing at our main factory, configured for an interesting one-to-one print-and-apply pail labelling application. Using an ALcode print and apply labelling head with a vacuum belt application system, each label can be printed individually…
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Forward thinking. Before it was necessary ⚙️ Around 15 years ago, we delivered a bespoke solution to a forward-thinking board game manufacturer looking to remove plastic film wrapping from their products. Long before sustainability became a widespread requirement, the objective was to replace shrink wrap with transparent tamper seal labels — maintaining presentation while securely sealing the box. The…
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Easy drinking. Not-so-simple labelling. Made manageable with ALTech. 🥃⚙️ This is an ALline drinks labelling system we built for a premium pre-mixed cocktail producer. Like a good recipe, the line follows a precise routine: a sequence of proven steps executed in the correct order, every cycle, to deliver a consistent result. In the drinks market, that repeatability matters —…
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ALwrap: not a dispenser. not a box–shift. ALwrap is our entry-level industrial desktop labelling machine — a genuine engineered platform (35kg+), not a lightweight dispenser-style unit. And it’s built around the brain of an advanced inline labelling machine from a labelling specialist, bringing control and capability you wouldn’t normally expect at this price point. But that power is only…
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Premium Italian flair meets Welsh ingenuity 🏴 Crash-lock and corrugated outer case boxes don’t normally mix on one feed system — crash-lock blanks are often irregular / non-stackable with uneven mass, so “standard hopper feeding” becomes a compromised, tiny stack that isn’t worth the loading effort. This solution avoids compromise: • Bulk hopper + shingle infeed with automatic replenishment…
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𝘼𝙇𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 — 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 ⚙️ This video shows a multi-panel ‘U-gate’ label application running as part of a multi-function ALline EC labelling system — also configured for front/back and wraparound labelling within the same platform, tailored to the specific requirements of our customer. Applications of this type demand consistent set-up and total reliability. They require high-frequency precision,…
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