Xact

Leading Suppliers of Packing and Marking Solutions

Avoid Costly Mistakes!

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Xact, together with World leaders Giro introduce a new system to the UK fresh produce market which will stop the packaging machine from operating until the correct consumables and information are loaded.

With the SCS (Smart Consumables System), GIRO once again revolutionises the world of net packaging providing machines and consumables with some ‘intelligence’.  The SCS is a complete system of machinery, software and consumables that bridges the gap of information between the fresh fruit and vegetable packing companies and the final packaged product.

RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology allows a reading of the information contained on all Giro consumables and matches the packaging product with information held on a central database.

In this way the packaging machine automatically recognises consumables (net, film or label) that will feed the machine. Once the check is done, the machine can accept or can display messages on the screen warning the operator to check the consumables and correct the mistake.

Xact Director, Barry Baldock explains “Using the RFID technology, packing companies can control stock levels, avoid costly mistakes, control quality of the labels (style, colour label information) and they can have complete traceability of the fresh fruit or vegetables that are packaged and distributed to the market.  Closing the information loop between the packaging consumables and machinery information, the RFID application allows a considerable advance in the packaging for the fresh produce industry”.

 

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics

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This show is aimed at industrial engineering and manufacturing professionals looking to find design, engineering, procurement and production solutions. Over 800 leading industry suppliers will be at the 2015 show, demonstrating new lines and revolutionary technology.

Xact has chosen this event to demonstrate ‘Mperia’ the latest Industrial Inkjet Integrated Solution from World Leaders, Matthews Marking.  ‘Mperia’ is the latest in production line coding management, capable of managing multiple printing technologies, combined with high speed, high resolution printing.  All our demonstrations will take place on stand S26.

Xact will also be showcase the three latest Matthews Marking technologies, the Viajet V-Series, T-Series and L-Series.   Marking on all materials, in all environments, we can quite literally code or mark any product. 

The first of these technologies – the V-Series – features Matthews’ drop on demand (DOD) technology that marks substrates including metal, paper and pulp, wood, concrete and plastic.  Matthews’ DOD printheads are the fastest in the industry, marking over 800 fpm (244 meters/min), with the longest life – over 6 billion firings per head.

The high resolution Ink Jet – the T-Series – provides brand on demand printing of batch and date codes, variable text, graphics, and barcodes.  Our superior ink efficiency and re-circulating auto-prime function provides up to 35% less ink consumption than competing brands.  The T-Series also allows you to stitch print heads together for large logos and branding, allowing you to replace pre-printed cartons and labelling equipment and labels.

Like the T-Series, the L-Series offers high resolution printing up to 2″ (51mm) per print head and a wide selection of fast dry inks for marking porous or non-porous materials at high speeds. Its removable cartridge makes replacing ink easy, all while reducing changeover and improving uptime.

Meet our friendly sales representative, Craig Gatland, on S26 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday and Thursday.

For more information about the event click here.

To register for your FREE entry badge tickets click here.

Customer notice: Xact Christmas Closing & Opening Times

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Please be aware that our Sales Managers are on holiday and we cannot guarantee that calls will be answered immediately, so please leave a voicemail message with your name, contact number, and product details needed.  You will receive a response as soon as the person you have contacted is available.

Xact Sales Managers: Chris Jolly (07710 962 290): Alastair Chambers (07500 843 318): Craig Gatland (07990 551 266): Paul Bennion (07989 578 821):

For any engineering issues please contact your local engineer via his mobile phone. The engineers are on holiday, so we cannot guarantee they will be able to respond immediately, but if you leave your name, contact details and they will respond as soon as they are available.

Xact Engineers: Richard Reeve: Lee Scott: Gerald Pearce:

Any stock items will be available from the warehouse, please contact your local area Salesman to arrange collection.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

‘Inkjet For Industry’ New on Xact Website

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Further enhancements include easy access to video footage, downloadable files and quick links to solutions which are most relevant to the browser’s industries.

Please Click Here to take you directly to Inkjet For Industry

Packaging Corner: Maintain consistency with case marking

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Marking products and cases with identification coding and other information during their manufacture or during packaging, while they’re in transit on a production line, can be a tremendous challenge. That’s due to the variety of printing technologies and systems in the marketplace.

“Historically, communicating directly to different types of printing technologies used on the same line, throughout a facility, or even at different geographic locations, has been extremely complicated—if not impossible,” says Antonio Cortes, product manager at Matthews Marking Systems. “That’s because there has never been a universal print management system available that could interface with, and direct the operation of, multiple print heads.”
 
To address that challenge, Matthews Marking developed the MPERIA universal controller platform. The system communicates seamlessly—through wireless or Ethernet connections—with high-resolution piezoelectric inkjet, thermal inkjet and valve jet print heads from any manufacturer across multiple production lines in multiple locations, MPERIA also connects with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and warehouse management systems (WMS) to populate production information into templates maintained in a centralized database.
 
This capability allows operations that produce the same product in multiple locations to maintain consistency in code appearance and placement. That’s important for companies concerned with consistent product branding and messaging. That level of accuracy is also critical for meeting stringent track-and-trace regulations, such as those required of pharmaceutical and medical products, says Cortes.
 
“In addition, MPERIA easily manages hundreds of formats needed to comply with local country messaging requirements,” he adds. “And, it helps co-packers who must accommodate the coding placement requests of their customers, or risk chargebacks for non-compliance.”
 
Without a centralised controller, information output by each print head has to be manually entered or modified at its line-side controller. “If a production line has multiple print heads, that means an operator has to visit each control panel and key in the changes,” he says. “Not only does that process take a lot of time, there’s the potential for mistakes, resulting in wasted productivity and scrap.”
 
Barry Baldock, Xact Director explains “the controller can also be integrated with scanners and other materials handling production line control systems”.
In short, “Mperia seamlessly integrates product marking with plant operations and customer databases,” says Barry Baldock, Xact’s Director. “The result is that customers can automate coding, reduce marking errors, and provide valuable traceability information for their products.”
 
 

PPMA SHOW 2014

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Xact’s Director, Barry Baldock said,  “We chose to launch our latest integrated coding solution ‘Mperia’ at the PPMA Show as it is the UK’s leading processing and packaging exhibition.  We have been blown away by the interest in our products and we came away from the show with some great quality leads. 

The show provided us with the opportunity to showcase our latest coding technology from Matthews Marking Systems whilst at the same time allowing us to network with new and existing customers from a wide range of industries. Xact’s checkweighing systems and labelling solutions always attract interest from our visitors.  For us, the PPMA Show is our  opportunity to meet existing customers and almost without fail new business gained should cover the cost of exhibiting and so we would intend to continue to exhibit at the PPMA show in future years”.

 

PLEASE CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING YOU TUBE LINK TO SEE XACT’S SALES MANAGER, CHRIS JOLLY BEING INTERVIEWED FOR PPMA TV:

www.youtube.com/watch

 

Pharmaceutical serialisation: a must?

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Manufacturers need the ability to quickly and positively identify and isolate all suspect products in the supply chain. Without legible barcodes and human readable production dates and lot numbers, product recalls are difficult to manage.

By 2017, the entire pharmaceutical industry in Europe must comply with the “falsified medicines” directive 2011/62/EU.  In short all companies operating in the pharmaceutical industry of all European states need to introduce a serialisation system with a control at the point of dispensation.

Xact can help maintain compliance and traceability with its variety of marking and coding applications powered by Mperia.

“MPERIA™ seamlessly integrates product marking with plant operations and customer databases,” says Barry Baldock, Xact’s Director. “The result is that customers can automate coding, reduce marking errors, and provide valuable traceability information for their products.”

 

About Xact

Xact offer the industry’s widest variety of serialisation coding and printing technologies and integrated solutions.  Xact’s range of flexible systems allows for a tailor-made complete solution which can integrate into existing lines and grow with the business.

Come and Join Us at the PPMA Show 2014

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Register Now! 30 September - 2 October 2014
 

Xact would like to personally invite you to visit us on Stand C61 at this year’s PPMA Show. Held on 30 September – 2 October 2014, The PPMA Show is the UK’s premier, free to attend complete production line event for processing and packaging machinery.

Show features include:

  • Over 320 Exhibitors
  • Over 1200 equipment manufacturers represented from around the world
  • Show opening by Michael Portillo
  • Seminars by Coca-Cola, Marks & Spencer, Wyke Farms, Tesco & more!
  • Latest innovations in action

REGISTER HERE – IT’S FREE!
PPMA Show 2014

THE PPMA SHOW
30 SEP – 2 OCT 2014, NEC, Birmingham

“The complete production line event”

• Food • Drink • Pharma • Cosmetics / Toiletries • Dairy • Confectionery • Snacks
• Chemicals • Household Goods • Electronics • Building / Construction
www.ppmashow.co.uk

XACT TO LAUNCH MPERIA AT PPMA 2014 – THE LATEST INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR CODING & MARKING

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The launch comes at a time when Xact has been experiencing a high rate of growth, expanding its range to allow for more automated machinery that offers a complete packaging solution.  
 
Xact will be demonstrating several of the high performance marking and coding systems from US partners Matthews Marking Systems, including the Viajet L-Series, T-Series and V-Series which represent the latest thermal inkjet and high resolution printing technologies available.  
 
The focus on our Integrated Solutions is: Identification; Branding; Traceability; Serialisation and Quality Control.
 
There will be 5 demonstrations in total, so come along to booth C61 for a chat.  On hand will be Xact’s Directors, Technical Sales Managers and Engineers who have many years’ experience in the field and will be demonstrating the machinery and advising visitors.