Colgate Palmolive is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of home and oral care and they were having a problem with one of their local production lines. The line suffered from major breakdowns as well as ink modules running dry every six months. Any business running manufacturing lines knows that any unscheduled down time can lead to large-scale losses. It is essential for a production line to run as smoothly as possible.

Pyrotec PackMark identified a problem with the kind of ink they were using and recommended the Markem-Imaje 9020, a small continuous inkjet printer that offers a perfect balance between performance and flexibility. This was expected to prevent the regular breakdowns and unscheduled down time, and in turn increase the overall up-time in the plant.

We placed a Markem-Imaje 9020 demo unit on Colgate Palmolive’s production line for one month to give the printer a chance to speak for itself. After three weeks we checked in to see how the unit was performing; down-time across the line had decreased drastically, just as we had predicted.

You can ensure printer and coder reliability by employing great quality machines, like the Markem-Imaje range, and ensuring that only genuine spares and consumables are used.

Pyrotec ParkMark is the sole licensed importer of Markem-Imaje products to South Africa. If you would like to us to help ensure you are getting maximum value and efficiency from your production line, please don’t hesitate to contact us.