product innovations
Definitive new guide to vision inspection
Mettler Toledo CI-Vision has published a new, all-inclusive guide to vision inspection, specifically designed to provide the inside track for those involved in product and packaging inspection. It is an invaluable source of information for anyone working in the packaging industry. ‘Reduction of Product Defects – Building an Effective Vision Inspection Programme’ is the latest in Mettler Toledo’s range of comprehensive industry guides. It shows how manufacturers and brand owners can develop an effective inspection programme to detect defects and prevent faulty product from being distributed to consumers. It clearly explains everything a manufacturer needs to know about choosing, installing and managing a vision inspection system. Plus those who already have a system in place will learn how to further improve their working practices. The guide also outlines how vision inspection programmes can help manufactures meet best practice standards, such as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), the Global Food Safety
Initiative (GFSI) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Mettler Toledo is the leading supplier of quality weighing and measuring solutions and is the world’s largest manufacturer of weighing technologies for use in laboratory, industrial and food retailing environments. Mettler Toledo also holds key market positions for various analytical instruments and is a principal provider of automated chemistry systems, used in the discovery and development of new drugs and chemical compounds. In addition, Mettler Toledo is also the world’s largest manufacturer of metal detection and X-ray product inspection technologies for use in the production and packaging sectors. The business maintains a premier position in many in many in-line process monitoring applications. From its headquarters in Leicester, Mettler Toledo offers product, technical and application expertise as well as comprehensive service, support and calibration capabilities. For more information visit
www.mt.com/uk-visionguide.
Innovative labelling adhesives with
no limitations With its Optal XP product series, Henkel has developed a completely new generation of synthetic adhesives for glass bottle labelling that offers an excellent performance spectrum. The brewing industry has relied for many years on tried and trusted waterbased casein adhesives to label its glass bottles. Constantly rising prices for casein are, however, driving up the costs for these conventional labelling adhesives. Given that casein is a raw material derived from cow’s
milk, the beverage industry’s adhesives budgets are also affected by sharp periodic swings. The logical alternative is to use adhesives based on synthetic polymers, which offer the additional advantages of longer storage stability and lower consumption. Up to now, however, the products available on the market showed certain limitations when compared directly with casein adhesives. Henkel has now achieved a technological breakthrough by introducing its new casein-free product series, Optal XP. For the first time, synthetic adhesives are proving high performance. In extensive long-term tests, they satisfied high customer expectations. In addition to their excellent wet tack, the synthetic Optal XP adhesives also exhibit good adhesion to chilled glass surfaces. The brewing industry can therefore turn to a powerful and economical range of products that cover the entire spectrum of bottle labelling needs, including sophisticated adhesive solutions with high ice-water and condensation water resistance. Moreover, the prices of the raw materials used are less volatile than that of casein, thus reducing the budget planning stress for bottling plants. The new-generation Optal XP adhesives also offer further economic and ecological processing advantages when it comes to labelling re-usable bottles. Deficits previously experienced with casein-free labelling adhesives have been successfully overcome through significantly improved cleaning and wash-off performance. Henkel operates worldwide with
leading brands and technologies in three business areas: laundry & home care, cosmetics/toiletries and adhesive technologies. For more information call 0049 211 797 4140 or visit
www.henkel.com.
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