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Wherever you are located, there is no escaping the fact that nearly everything is increasing in price.  Energy, raw materials, labour, the list is endless.  That is why it is so important that in these challenging times, where your budgets are being asked to do more and more, you are not dealt a nasty surprise once you’ve purchased your new coding machine.  This is where total ...

What is efficiency? At Linx, we believe it is: using your resources (equipment, consumables, time, energy and teams) in the most productive manner.  Put another way: it’s getting the most out of what you have, without having to spend more. Why should you focus on efficiency? With budgets being squeezed on all sides, staff recruitment and retention in difficulty, and operatin ...

Contract Packaging industry is competitive with suppliers looking to meet short timescales and varying customer needs. To get a competitive edge, co-packers companies rely on industrial coding machines that provide flexibility, ease of use, and reliability. From handling a range of packing materials to operating to short timescales, Linx contract packaging coders can solve these challenges.

We love the word uptime especially when it’s in the positive, but how do we keep it that way and avoid the dreaded downtime? No company can afford to constantly have to stop their line to deal with annoyances such as poor coding quality due to a blocked printhead. Uptime is of paramount importance, and the selection of printing equipment to efficiently perform its function, wi ...

A laser mark can be used as an important security feature to avoid the counterfeiting of your products.

We’ve all been there, at the end of the day starving hungry, rushing into a supermarket (remember the good old days!) and picking up something to eat.  Consumers may give a cursory glance at the best before date on the package, just to check that the item is safe to eat.  They give no thought, and why should they, as to how much research and development has gone into the ink di ...

2020 will go down in history as a challenging time for food producers.  It is vital that food supplies to supermarkets and shops are uninterrupted and rigorous hygiene maintained – but we should not forget the importance of the printed information that is provided to the consumer when it is on the shelf.  There are heavy fines for batch and date codes that do not meet the requi ...

The change in consumer demand as a result of the lockdown conditions imposed by governments around the world has created new problems for producers. Some industries have seen a sharp decline in demand, for example automotive, but others have seen huge increases in demand in the scale typically seen in the run up to major holidays such as Christmas. Factories in the #food, #beverage and #personal care markets are very used to managing seasonal variations in demand for their products, but this takes planning.  The unexpected and sudden change has created problems throughout the supply chain from primary producer through to retailer.