Many food manufacturers using flexible packaging face the challenge of managing multiple pre-printed films for different products, SKUs and customer requirements.
This becomes increasingly complex for businesses producing a wide range of products, private label products, export variations or promotional packaging. Managing multiple printed films can increase costs, create inventory challenges and reduce production flexibility due to longer changeover times and increased packaging waste.
The Solution: Generic Packaging
Generic packaging provides a smarter and more efficient approach by using a standard, unprinted film across multiple products and adding the required information during production.
By integrating thermal transfer overprinting (TTO) systems and/or automatic labelling solutions directly onto packaging machines, manufacturers can print variable information such as:
- Product details
- Batch and lot numbers
- Expiry dates
- Barcodes and 2D codes
- Customer-specific information
- Promotional messages
This allows one common packaging material to be used across multiple products while maintaining full control over the final printed information.
The Benefits
- Reduced packaging inventory and storage requirements
- Lower costs associated with pre-printed films
- Faster product changeovers
- Improved production flexibility
- Reduced packaging waste
- Easier management of multiple SKUs and private label products
- Ability to respond quickly to customer and market requirements
- Improved traceability through variable data printing
With extensive experience in generic packaging applications across food manufacturing, AR Automation helps manufacturers simplify their packaging processes, reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.
Discuss Your Generic Packaging Requirements
If you’re looking to reduce packaging complexity, improve flexibility or introduce variable printing onto flexible packaging, our specialists can help identify the right solution for your production line.
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