Beverage Coding and Marking
Beverage Coding and Marking Solution
Reliable beverage coding and marking is essential for drinks manufacturers to meet regulations, ensure traceability, and protect brand reputation. Accurate, durable codes—clear even on wet or cold surfaces—allow full product traceability once your drinks leave the factory.
We offer a full range of beverage marking printers designed to meet the challenges faced by the beverage industry every day such as coding onto wet bottles without sacrificing high line speeds and robust traceability, as well as plastic, glass bottles and labels and more.
Whether you’re coding best before or manufacturing dates, traceability codes, or anti-counterfeit/brand protection marks onto bottles, bottle caps, cartons, cans or plastics – we can meet your specific needs.
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Why Choose Linx Beverage Marking Printers
Quality Coding to Protect your Brand
- High-quality coding to protect your brand
- ‘Invisible’ UV-readable codes for discreet traceability and anti-counterfeiting
- Permanent laser coding of complex logos, circular text, and 2D codes directly onto bottles
- High-contrast inks (white, yellow, grey, light blue) for clear codes on dark glass and PET
Reliable in Tough Environments
- Water-resistant designs—Linx 8900 CIJ and CSL lasers feature stainless steel enclosures (IP55 rating as standard)
- Linx 8900 offers long service intervals (up to two years) for maximum uptime on busy lines
Boost Productivity
- Powerful laser coders for high-speed lines (up to 70,000 bottles/hour)
- Print both primary and secondary codes with Linx 8900—ideal for bottles, cans, and outer cases
- Remote monitoring with Linx Printernet—track performance and predict end-of-batch runs with ease
Beverage Marking Solutions Applications
Bottle Printing
Machines for printing on glass and plastic bottles, from household products to drinks and cosmetics.
Can Coding
Solutions for coding on glass and plastic bottles, from household products to drinks and cosmetics.
Beverage Coding and Marking Printers
Get high quality, highly visible coding directly onto glass, plastic and metal, or onto labels and sleeves with Linx CIJ and laser coding solutions using adhesive inks, or lasered directly into the surface of the glass. Our coding experts can advise you on the best beverage marking solutions from our range of marking machines for the beverage industry. We can help you to reduce waste, maximise production throughput and meet deadlines.
Continuous Inkjet Printers for Beverage Marking
Linx CIJ Printing solutions can help to maximise beverage production time between multiple SKUs with quick, error-free code changeovers while line setups can be stored and retrieved for repeat work.
The Beverage marking CIJ printers are designed to make operation and efficiency easier than ever and will support your business with:
- Hit your production targets
- Reliable, continuous operation
- Full product traceability
- Compliance-ready coding
- Remote monitoring and proactive support
Laser Coders for Beverage Marking
Linx Laser coders are suitable for all the substrates used in the beverage industry, and at high line speeds.
CO2 laser coders are the most popular lasers in the beverage industry as they are very adjustable. Fibre lasers are now starting to be seen as viable options, as they can code onto bare metal such as that used for canned drinks.
- Minimal maintenance, low downtime, high-speed performance—no consumables
- Visible or discreet permanent codes—ideal for anti-counterfeiting
- Versatile: clear, consistent characters in a range of fonts and message formats, even on large print areas
Inks and Solvents for Beverage Marking
Inks that penetrate condensation to mark both glass and plastic bottles are available with continuous inkjet models. These are particularly well-suited to cold fill applications and where bottles are stored outside before being brought inside to fill, causing condensation.
Such inks also perform equally well where condensation is not present, saving companies with multiple products the need to store different types of inks and have different printers for individual applications.
- Different coloured inks for legibility on coloured materials
- Wet-bottle adherent inks for cold-fill applications
- UV-readable inks for anti-counterfeiting or internal traceability by bottle manufacturers
Contact Us
Why not get in touch with one of our sales reps to talk about how Linx can support your coding and marking needs?
Resources
Coding & Marking Solutions for Alcoholic Beverages
Beavertown Brewery
Special Adherence Inks Datasheet
Bruichladdich Distillery Co. Ltd Case Study
Top Ten Tips for chosing the right coder
Beverage Infographic