Printing on aluminum, cans, caps and lids offers

YOUR CHALLENGES

Printing on aluminum, including aluminum can printing and coding on caps and lids, is an essential application for many FMCG brands’ food and beverage operations but presents a number of challenges. Your business is under pressure to tackle the requirements of varied product substrates and shapes, tough production environments, and increasing regulatory demands.

The FMCG products made of aluminum usually come in packs and comprise multiple units, meaning printing must be done over multiple print fields and a large surface area, for example, coding on yogurt lids. These are generally high-speed operations that simultaneously require high-quality coding quality to meet strict verification, regulatory and traceability standards, with a need to be highly legible and durable.

Additionally, in applications such as aluminum can printing, the moist conditions of the substrate can be a challenge for producing effective coding, resulting in spoilt codes if the right printing technology is not selected. There is also an increasing demand for tin can printing to mark on the top of cans and caps for promotional, tax, or brand reasons which can be impossible if the incorrect technology is selected. For food products like yogurts that are often marked on the production line and sealed with a metalized polyester film lid, there must be a barrier against external contaminants, and any inks used must be food grade.

OUR SOLUTIONS

The ability of aluminum to maintain food and beverage freshness and its recyclability make printing on aluminum substrates a top and enduring choice for packaging in these industries.

With unrivalled expertise in empowering food and beverage companies to achieve their goals, we provide extensive options for high-resolution, high-speed printing on aluminum cans, caps, and lids. As a global leader in industrial coding solutions for FMCG brands over decades, we enable manufacturers to optimize their coding processes, achieve compliance and protect their brands and consumers.

Resolve your product coding issues with solutions designed to maximize uptime, output, and quality while minimizing waste and hassle.

Our printing on aluminum solutions ensure that cans, caps, and lids remain fully recyclable and provide both sterility and a long shelf life for canned food, pet food, and beverages. Coding for yogurts, desserts, and other products packaged in cups with metalized polyester film lids that are usually heat-sealed is another popular application in which we have a longstanding record of innovation.

Markem-Imaje offers a wide range of printers across the technologies of continuous inkjet (CIJ) and fiber and CO2 laser primed for all your printing on aluminum can, cap, and lid applications and requirements.

“Markem-Imaje is the only one that fully reassured us that their laser had the capacity to keep up with our production rate, even in overspeed cases.”

Yannick Joubert
Senior Manager Plant Engineering & Technology at CCEP  — French subsidiary of Coca-Cola European Partners

“It was essential that we find a supplier who could cover the vast range of packaging materials we use for our products. We needed a coding solution for PET, glass, paper, aluminum, and a secondary and tertiary packaging labeling solution for our cartons and pallets. We needed clarity, precision, perfect quality, and legible messages at a high output speed of up to 60,000 bottles/ hour. With Markem-Imaje we found the partner we were looking for.”

Raffaele Bini
Engineering Manager at Sanpellegrino

“From day one, we’ve had nothing but great experiences with Markem-Imaje. We’re pleased with the quality of the printer, and it will be able to keep up with our needs as we grow.”

Matthew Steinberg
Exhibit ‘A’ Cofounder and Head Brewer