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Printing direct to thermoformed film trays is an expanding part of the business.
stays close to its customers and ensures, that all systems sold maintain a permanently high level of reliability and performance.
As joint managing directors, Karsten Strothmann (executive vice-president sales) and Dr Hendrik Frank (executive vice-president Ttechnics) are setting the future direction for stable growth in the designated target markets.
Labelling solutions are not the only cornerstones of the company’s success. Thanks to well-established knowledge of the industry, Multivac Marking & Inspection developed direct web printers at an early stage.
When printed upper web came into fashion on thermoforming packaging machines, customers did not want to apply yet another label to the printed upper web, but rather to print a best-before date or batch number directly onto the film. An expanding branch of the business, as it soon became clear.
Since 2010 the company has also been developing and producing checkweighers, metal detectors and X-ray inspection systems in Enger.
And lastly, thanks to the company’s systems for visual inspection, which provide label and print inspection by means of sensors or cameras, a new level of product safety and manufacturing transparency has been achieved.
The latest product in a very diversified range is the L 312 full wrap labeller with weigh price marking, which sets a new benchmark, when in comes to material efficiency, saving
resources, and recyclability in labelling.
Overall, the team at Multivac Marking &
Inspection looks optimistically to the next 50 years: “Our
expertise is in demand in the market like never
before, and the market potential is also huge. Our solutions are
state-of-the-art, and our order book is full. And our passion for what we do remains unbroken,” both MDs concur. ■
Multivac M&I celebrates 50 years, maps future
Multivac Marking & Inspection, part of the Multivac Group since 1993, celebrates 50 years of delivering high-quality solutions for labelling, marking and inspection.
While the core market for Multivac Marking & Inspection has always been the food industry, companies in the life science and healthcare sectors have also benefitted from the innovative technology offered by the company.
The success story for the labelling specialist began on 1 July 1972 – a company called MR Etikettiertechnik was founded in the town of Enger in Eastern Westphalia, a region with many large meat processors and sausage manufacturers. The first product developed by the start-up company was a cross web labeller. Its primary task was to apply labels automatically and efficiently to a wide range of meat and sausage products packed on thermoforming packaging machines.
A flourishing company developed over the years from these early beginnings. Thanks
to systematic investment in technology and know-how, the range of products and services was continually expanded to meet new demands and trends in the market. The number of employees continued to grow.
And in addition to the proven cross web labellers, a new group of products was also developed – high-performance conveyor belt labellers, which have since made a major contribution in many applications and markets to increasing efficiency, process reliability and labelling accuracy.
When the company founder decided to withdraw from the business in 1993, Multivac came into the picture. The many years previously of close cooperation made the decision easy – MR Etikettiertechnik became part of the Multivac Group. The integration of the company only became fully transparent to the public, however, in 2010, when
MR Etikettiertechnik was officially renamed Multivac Marking & Inspection.
Today, the subsidiary is an extremely successful and agile supplier of labelling, printing and inspection systems.
Almost 50 million euros turnover, 257 employees, and a tightly knit sales and service network worldwide, which
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