Laser marking quality becomes more regular and stable marking one bottle after another

With ink marking was more irregular and a lot of times some came out defective

Sara Lee Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name products for consumers throughout the world. With headquarters in Chicago, Sara Lee Corporation has operations in 55 countries and markets branded products in nearly 200 nations. The corporation employs 145,800 people worldwide.

Chicago-based Sara Lee Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name products for consumers throughout the world.
Our three lines of business are:

•Food and Beverage (Aoste, Bimbo, Maison du Café, Jimmy Dean, Earth Grains, Hillshire Farm, etc.)
•Branded Apparel (Champion, Dim, Unno, Playtex, Wonderbra, Bali, etc.)
•Household Products (Kiwi, Ambi Pur, Sanex, etc.)

Sara Lee has operations in 58 countries; markets branded products in nearly 200 nations and has 150,400 employees worldwide.

División Cruz Verde Legrain: freshener manufacturers (home and car Ambipur) and insecticides with application of marking on glass bottles.

Tracking system and product identification of each product via lot number marked by Injet equipment.

Ink marking is not permanent on bottles (unlike laser); besides, the bottle contents a solvent part and sometimes during bottle filling or taping process, part of the liquid get spilled and consequently marking disappears or get erased.

Making samples with laser for product identification we saw that the erasing problem disappeared because we’re talking about a permanent laser marking (reaction with glass surface). The Marketing Department accepted the new marking presentation (contrast, print-quality): former marking was black with lack of quality but now it’s a white appearance on a transparent background (glass).

In non high speed packaging production lines, 2 Dynamarks (CO2 equipments) of 25W were installed and in high speed production lines, 4 vectorial Scriptmarks of 100W. The laser marking is dynamic, not static.

Speed: 18 meters per minute (production line). Small bottles marked per minute: 250 small bottles x minute.

Laser marking: 10 digits on 1 line with lot number (codified date + internal code)

Laser marking quality becomes more regular and stable marking one bottle after another. With ink marking was more irregular and a lot of times some came out defective.

Advanced vacuum cleaner connected to the laser via support specially designed to vacuum the by laser emitted dust.

Our distributor in the USA (ID Technology) sold their first marking and coding laser system to Sara Lee in January 2005. They see a very good opportunity in their Meat Group and Bakery Group, especially in USA. We took the business because the Macsa laser marking and coding systems features really impressed Sara Lee.