The advantages of functional labels
01 April, 2008Tamper evidence, cold-chain compliance, authenticity and more can all be ensured with the latest functional labels.
New questionnaire to collect allergen info
13 February, 2008Food companies will find it easier to collect required information to meet the legal obligations surrounding the sale of food with a new product information form, launched recently.
IBM and OATSystems bring RFID downunder
14 November, 2007IBM and OATSystems have announced that they will deliver the joint RFID solutions they have marketed successfully overseas to Australia and New Zealand.
Coding millions of cans
20 September, 2007More than 300 million cans have been coded in each of the past five years by four ultra high-speed ink jet printers on production lines at a Hastings factory
Labelling premium smallgoods
10 September, 2007Barkly Continental is a supplier of top grade, hand made specialty European-style hams, sausages, and other pickled and smoked pork products
Traceability and shipment verification for bakery
30 July, 2007Groupe Jacquet, of the Limagrain group, is a major bakery with facilities throughout France and Belgium, shipping over 70,000 boxes of bread a day to hundreds of customers
Success for Australian EPC/RFID pilot
12 July, 2007Radio frequency identification (RFID) using GS1 global standards can improve productivity, reduce delivery processing times and open up visibility throughout the supply chain for the benefit of all trading partners, according to a multi-industry Australian consortium.
Collaboration to apply RFID technologies in New Zealand
09 July, 2007Radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies can make a major contribution to New Zealand’s economic development, according to Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group.
A label for 'Australian Grown'
05 June, 2007The ‘Australian Grown’ logo has now been launched, allowing consumers to identify packaged food that has been grown on Australian farms.
Wet and steamy coding
21 May, 2007Coding plastic pouches in a wet steamy environment has proved no problem for the latest small character ink jet printer from Videojet
Front of package nutritional labelling
14 May, 2007A new nutritional food and beverage labelling scheme is set to aid Australians in the fight against the country's current overweight and obesity epidemic
European patent for laser marking technique
26 April, 2007A European patent has been granted to DataLase for the new pigment that forms the basis of the company’s laser marking products for primary and secondary packaging – the Packmark and Casemark flexo and tape.
Labelling polystyrene boxes made easier
13 April, 2007The producer of polystyrene boxes for a group of Queensland fruit and vegetable growers recently move another step forward, with an improved method of labelling the shipping boxes they produce
Full colour product label printer
13 November, 2006Labelling specialist Peacock Bros. has introduced a full colour ink jet label printer from Primera.
Reduced space symbology seminar
27 October, 2006GS1 New Zealand is bringing two leading authorities on bar code symbology to New Zealand. Bar code symbology will be a retail standard with effect from January 2010.
