The international producer of high value-added packaging solutions Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare has installed its first mass carton serialisation capability at its Cherry Orchard facility in Dublin.
The installation of the Atlantic Zeiser Digiline 300 provides customers with a solution to the introduction of track and trace technology for new serialisation standards.
This will support track and trace capability for product movement as well as provide authentication, improved brand protection and increased consumer confidence.
The finished cartons are fed into a coding stream that utilises a printhead and UV dryer allowing fast coding speeds, while the twin vericam camera data inspection system verifies application. This facilitates application, code verification to the master data and readability. An automated rejection process is also included.
Mark Rooney, COO, said, ‘Many pharmaceutical companies are responding to the challenge of serialisation standards by upgrading or installing lines capable of applying a track and trace identifier, but this is often confined to 2D barcoding and batch specific data.
‘We have the capability to individually code products of various sizes including flat cartons both glued and unglued. The system can receive and manage multiple data files and print multiple code. The wide printhead with multiple image print capability in direction of feed allows 2d matrix and code 128 possible in separate locations once within same print width profile. Should the need occur additional print heads can be added to extend the print location capability. The two separate camera verification scanning units ensure quality of code read and verification of code, or multiple code to the master input data.’
Malcolm Farnan, sales and marketing director, added, ‘Continued investment is required in order to respond and provide solutions that make it easier for our customers to meet regulation without compromising on efficiency and quality. Our customers approach us to provide solutions from regulatory changes to efficiencies. There are both mass market and niche market demands that are best supported by a competent and experienced packaging supplier rather than in house.’
