Co-op Kobe renews his equipment of coding with printers inkjet of Markem- Imaje

The cooperative Kobe, founded in 1912 in Higashinadu-ku, Kobe (Japan), is one of the cooperatives of consumers bigger of the world. It has more 11,000 employees and exceeds the 1,6 million members associated. From his starts, Co-op Kobe had clear his aims: guarantee alimentary products insurance to all his partners. It is by this that established a standard of constant quality that the product would have to fulfil in all his cycle of production until arriving to the table of the consumer. To the little time to implement his politics of control of quality, selected to Markem-Imaje as official provider of solutions of coding.

“In this moment, what wanted to was to print the date of caducity in each portion of Natto, and required a compact and easy team to integrate, ” explains Toru Hamatani, director of Production and attendant of the acquisition of equipment. “In a celebrated fair in Osaka discover that Markem-Imaje had a printer inkjet that fit perfectly with what needed. Like the company also had a subsidiary near, think that the vicinity would be practical in terms of operations of maintenance.” Like this it is like Co-op Kobe finished buying his first codificadora Markem-Imaje of injection of ink of small character: a S7 Supra. Along the years added other printers to the lines of production of the factory, until it arrived the moment of the big renewal.

“We looked for a team that could encode our two main products. On request of our partners also wanted to increase the visibility of the codes that printed, since till lately the dates of caducity of the bread printed in the metallic clip recubierto that uses to close the stock exchanges, which resulted little readable”, comments Toru Hamatan. Like this, Co-op Kobe finishes to buy five coding 9232 Markem-Imaje, that have been installed already in the lines of production of his factory. The directors of Co-op Kobe were immediately impressesed by the versatilidad, ease of use and the high performance that the new printers provide.

The technology inkjet 9232 has allowed to Co-op Kobe print dates of caducity in the two sides corrugados of the boxes of poliestireno used for empacar the Natto, and equally encodes the containers of film flexible of the bread that expende the cooperative. Another important characteristic is the ease with which can ingresar the Japanese characters in the codes to print, in addition to the excellent legibilidad that offers the interfase of the operator thanks to his display WYSIWYG and function of zoom integrated cheese cheese.