Coding in the cold--Nestle warms to Imaje.

On 27 March 2006, Imaje signed a Preferred Supplier Agreement with Nestrade, Nestle World Trade Corporation.

Through this agreement, Imaje have undertaken to provide consistently high quality services and equipment to the Nestle Group worldwide, whilst reducing Nestle's coding costs and increasing their coding efficiency and product traceability.

Nestle-Scholler, a giant in the ice cream field, have recently had to adapt their processes to comply with the new traceability regulations in food packaging. When Nestle-Scholler needed a coding solution to suit their demanding environment, Imaje were able to supply the equipment that met their requirements.

In high season, the Nestle-Scholler site in Prenszlau produces millions of ice cream sticks in a variety of flavours. Once shaped, these ice cream products are individually wrapped in sealed OPP film and then packed in cardboard boxes. Before European regulation CE 178/2002 came into effect, only the cardboard boxes were marked. To improve product traceability and to meet the new regulation, Nestle-Scholler decided to identify each individually wrapped ice cream stick with the name of the manufacturing plant, the production date, the shift code and a use-by date. The chosen marking system had to guarantee high quality, long-lasting marking. Equipment had to be reliable, capable of high product throughput rates and withstand the wet and cold production environment. Above all, the marking solution had to fit onto manufacturing lines that had little space to spare.

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