Traceability coder juices up production: juice copacker Whitlock Packaging, which ships roughly 1 billion containers a year worldwide from its New Jersey plant, adds an ink-jet case coder that reduces downtime, ups efficiencies and provides product-traceability data.(large-character coding)

Packaging Digest, July, 2006 by Hartman, Lauren R.

A traceability coding system that recovers lost downtime for a copacker that processes millions of juice containers is just the healthy boost Whitlock Packaging Corp. needed. After the company installed a new marking system from Matthews Intl. (www.matthewsmarking.com), it began to notice a welcome change to its case-packing operation.

Founded in 1980, Fort Gibson, OK-based Whitlock is perhaps the largest contract manufacturer of noncarbonated soft drinks in the U.S. It has two facilities that package juices, teas and energy drinks in cans, polyethylene terephtlatate bottles and aseptic containers--one plant in Fort Gibson and its main plant in Wharton, NJ.

The Wharton operation packs about 200,000 cases a day for owners of some of the most renowned...

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