Cosmetics, Personal and Home Care

Over 80% of personal and home care bottles, jars and containers are made from either HDPE or PET¹.

Plastic packaging includes slick plasticizers which support plastic flexibility but can make coding difficult. Therefore, consider code contrast and resilience requirements and make sure you obtain product samples before you determine the optimal coding technology for your package.

Our expert sales and service teams will help you chose the right coding technology and keep it running effectively on your line.

¹ Euromonitor packaging database. Based on 2012 package type estimates.

Many coding technologies are effective on flexible plastic and paper packaging. While films, pouches, sleeves and bags can all be cost-effective packaging options, managing the numerous pre-printed films for every fragrance, color and product can be challenging and costly.

Videojet has a wide range of coding technologies to give you the capability to print product information, bar codes, ingredients, logos and other information during packaging by batch, line and even individual unit. This can reduce your hassle and costs while increasing your manufacturing flexibility.

Defending the reputation of your business and your products is not easy. Product diversion to unauthorized channels and counterfeiting can reduce profits, tarnish brand image and create safety risks for your customers.

Our advanced coding technologies and supporting software solutions, however, can give you the supply chain control you need to help prevent these threats. These solutions can be as simple as using a laser marking system to ensure a permanent code on your package to an integrated software solution that incorporates anti-counterfeiting elements into your codes.

Due to their shape, use and dispensing method, many personal and home care products such as cosmetics, skin and lip care, deodorants and even air fresheners come in a variety of specialized containers. In fact, your package design often differentiates your product and can be integral to your success.

Make sure your coding doesn’t detract from your great package styling by considering coding during the design process, then choose the optimal coding technology for your specialized package.

Videojet’s wide range of printing technologies can help ensure your coding is an integral part of your winning packaging design.

Metal aerosol cans are used around the world to dispense a variety of cosmetics, personal and home care products from polishes and cleaners, insecticides and air fresheners to deodorants, hair spray and shaving cream.

However, coding on aerosol cans can often be a challenge due to the metal finishes and curved designs. Videojet offers coding solutions and service support for these and other difficult coding applications and can help keep your line running efficiently.

Videojet coding solutions can do more than just add a batch, lot or date code to your package: they can simplify your operations and help reduce your manufacturing costs.

More coding in-line and onsite means you can customize packaging at the product or batch level resulting in quicker changeovers and more flexible manufacturing. With Videojet’s digital coding technologies, you can add color names or numbers, ingredients, bar codes or icons to your product in-line and to the outside of cartons.

Achieving legible and accurate information on your cases is vital for effective supply chain management. Videojet has multiple ways to help you create supply chain traceable coding, that range from high resolution printing direct to the box to automatic label application.

Easy integration before, into or after your filler is key to your coding and marking success. Videojet printers can be integrated to multiple places on your line to maximize your flexibility and code quality.

Continuous inkjet (CIJ)

Fluid based, non-contact printing of up to five lines of text, linear and 2D bar codes, or graphics, printed on a variety of packaging types including stationary packaging via traversing systems.

Thermal Transfer Overprinting (TTO)

A digitally controlled printhead precisely melts ink from a ribbon directly onto flexible films to provide high resolution, real-time prints.

Laser Marking Systems

A beam of infrared light focused and steered with a series of carefully controlled small mirrors to create marks where the heat of the beam interacts with the packaging surface.

Label Printer Applicator (LPA)

Print and places labels of various sizes on multiple package types.

A range of technologies can be integrated with cartoning machines before or after packaging. Your optimal installation location will depend upon the size constraints of both your cartoner and your preferred coding technology.

Laser Marking Systems

A beam of infrared light focused and steered with a series of carefully controlled small mirrors to create marks where the heat of the beam interacts with the packaging surface.

Continuous inkjet (CIJ)

Fluid based, non-contact printing of up to five lines of text, linear and 2D bar codes, or graphics, printed on a variety of packaging types including stationary packaging via traversing systems.

Thermal inkjet (TIJ)

Ink-based, non-contact printing using heat and surface tension to move link onto a package surface. Generally used to print 2D DataMatrix and other bar codes.

Printers are best integrated on your conveyor after the sealed case has been discharged. The type and amount of information you want to print on your case determines which solution is best suited to your operations.

Large Character Marking (LCM)

Ink-based, non-contact printing of multiple data types (alphanumeric, logos and bar codes) in large sizes primarily used for secondary packaging such as cases.

Label Printer Applicator (LPA)

Print and places labels of various sizes on multiple package types.

Laser Marking Systems

A beam of infrared light focused and steered with a series of carefully controlled small mirrors to create marks where the heat of the beam interacts with the packaging surface.