Track events
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Hapa
200 Hybrid Foil Printer for all types of packaging
material. |
Two promising approaches are coming to the fore
in the fight against counterfeits: end-to-end
authentication (as in the EFPIA Proposal) and
complete track-and-trace chains (in Turkey and
California). The Coesia Group has a variety of
tools to make your organisation secure.
New approaches to combat counterfeiting present
particular regulation challenges to modern
companies. End-to-end authentication, for
example, requires pharmaceutical companies to
comply
with a variety of country-specific legal standards.
The internationally successful Coesia Group has
worked
for many years to develop efficient solutions
aimed at
complying with these legal requirements. These
solutions
are achieved to the highest technological standards
and
flexibility, through modularity and the most impressive
product quality. Several companies within the
group
are specialised in Track & Trace.
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Fully
digitalised printing of Braille dots. |
For instance, the Swiss Coesia member Hapa is
the world market leader in the field of late stage
customisation and on-demand printing technologies.
German-based Laetus leads in the production of
camera-based control systems for pharmaceutical
packaging worldwide.
Both companies are complemented by the Coesia
Software Business Unit and the Information Communication
Technologies Department (ICT) of G.D, the leading
international manufacturer of high-speed production
and packaging equipment in the tobacco industry
and
a provider of complex software tools.
Secure printing
Hapa offers printing systems for marking pharmaceutical
packaging that are based on the digital UV Drop-on-
Demand technology (DoD). The high print quality
of
DoD, which uses UV inks, makes it particularly
suitable
for printing anti-counterfeiting security features.
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High-end
marking with RedCube by Hapa. |
These systems allow you to put the most diverse
applications into effect and to process many materials
cost-efficiently – even small batches are
easily feasible.
The Hapa 800 BlisterJet prints on blank blisters
that
are manufactured in large batches using high-performance
equipment and marked with a bar or matrix code.
The Hapa
800 CartonJet is ideal for flat, erected, or even
pre-printed
cartons. And Braille dots can be applied to pre-printed
cartons without compromising the quality of text
or
graphics with the Hapa 800 BrailleJet.
The Hapa 800 LabelJet marks labels with varying
serial numbers and a 2D matrix code, making them
‘trackand-
traceable’. Versatility is the strength of
the Hapa 800
WebJet: it can be used with many different materials,
among them aluminium, laminated film, PVC and
many
medical papers.
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The inline-capable
control system, BrailleSpect, decodes Braille
and
reliably verifies the height of Braille dots. |
This broad range of materials is also covered
by the Hapa 200 Hybrid Online Printers. They expand
the advantages of inline UV Flexo printing with
the option of individualised printing of pack
forms using UV DoD technology; as a result, they
are suitable for versioning packs.
The most recent development from Hapa is the
RedCube.
This has the twin advantages of encoding in high
print
quality with minimal need for maintenance. Compared
to
other commercially available encoding solutions,
it reduces
operating costs considerably – by up to one
fifth.
Secure verification
The Track & Trace portfolio of Laetus is directed
equally at
flexibility and cost-efficiency. “We emphasise
modularity in
the development of our control systems,”
says Dirk Hendrik
Kneusels, Managing Director of Laetus. “All
our solutions
are based on combinations of standard modules
that are
designed according to the specific application.”
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The powerful
camera modules from Laetus offer optimal image
quality and high processing power, and are
easy to handle. |
Whether the company is dealing with the printing
of batch constant information, serialisation of
individual pack forms, one-step aggregation or
multi-step ePedigree, it undertakes to employ
only the modules the client requires. As a result
of its modularity, the high-performance system
can be easily adapted to new applications and
future marking requirements. In the long term,
clients achieve investment security and a sense
of certainty.
The basis of all Laetus Track & Trace tools
is the
gradually scalable PrintSpect system. Whether
as a
complete module or integrated into new or existing
equipment, the combination of Laetus components
and
the modular software, Secure Track & Trace,
offers clients
a perfect solution.
Secure Track & Trace is a joint development
of Laetus
and the ICT Department of G.D. The Department
has over
30 years’ experience in developing software
solutions for
industry. It draws on this experience for its
expertise
to implement complete applications and to guarantee
that they are reliably integrated into different
company
software systems.
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The flexible
Laetus solutions inspect all known marking
features precisely and efficiently. |
“Laetus sees itself as the value creation
partner to the pharmaceutical industry,”
explains Kneusels. “With our innovative solutions,
clients can meet their requirements in a time-
and cost-efficient manner.”
For example, with BrailleSpect, Laetus is currently
developing a laser-control device for inline Braille
checking.
The underlying laser triangulation process has
been filed
for patent protection.
BrailleSpect decodes Braille and verifies height,
diameter
and the distance between the individual dots.
The
unparalleled reading speed of the application
allows for belt
speeds of up to 200 metres per minute. Consequently,
control-related time losses are minimised.
With BrailleSpect Pharmaceutical, manufacturers
can
meet the requirements of the new European Braille
Norm
for Pharmaceutical Packaging, which specifies
the height
of Braille dots at 0.2mm from autumn 2010.
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