Bruichladdich Distillery, located on the Isle of Islay in the Inner Hebrides, installed its first Linx CSL30 coder of Linx Printing Technologies on its gin production line last year. This purchase is followed with a same machine for its malt whisky line.
Installed in the bottle labeller, the CSL30 codes two lines, 5mm in height, onto the bottom of the glass gin bottles. The codes comprise a line number and a batch code, including a unique bottle number and the bottle’s production date and time. The line currently runs at 2,100 bottles per hour, nine hours per day, producing 1.2 million bottles per year.
On the whisky line, the Linx CSL30 codes clear, etched codes that are highly legible. This capability of laser coding to produce a visible code on every colour and shade of bottle is particularly important to Bruichladdich, many of whose whisky bottles are black, Linx Printing Technologies states.
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