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Hitachi CIJ Printers Help Kraft Foods Achieve Effortless and Reliable Date Coding

America’s Household packaged food producer adopts Hitachi Marking and Coding Solutions to achieve flawless high-speed coding on traversing applications

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Summary

To implement a faster fill-close label application, Kraft Foods tested Waldner Dosomats in combination with a competing date coder — which failed to perform. Hitachi distributors IMS-Partners and Van Alstine teamed up to demonstrate the efficacy of Hitachi inkjet technology. They showed Kraft Foods other Hitachi installations, followed by rigorous tests. Hitachi’s Continuous Inkjet Printer (CIJ) performed perfectly, clearing the way for Kraft Foods to upgrade to a more efficient, reliable traverse-fill process.

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About Kraft Foods Delivering Quality Food to Every American Household.

Kraft Foods is a global food maker with over 70 major brands. 99% of North Americans are Kraft Food consumers. A key to Kraft Food’s business success is its relentless focus on improving the efficiency and reliability of its production processes.

Challenges Business Challenges
  • A competitor's date coding machine malfunctioned with multiple faults within 30 minutes, highlighting the need for a reliable solution.
  • Kraft Foods required a high-quality industrial inkjet printer to match their new 8-cup filling system's pace, operating at 55 cycles per minute, while ensuring clean Print Heads to prevent downtime.
Solutions Solutions
  • Initial 36 and later 4 additional high-speed Hitachi Inkjet Printers for reliability and optimal print quality that Kraft Foods demanded.
Outcome Outcome
  • Hitachi Inkjet Printers significantly reduced monthly maintenance and fluid expenditure, demonstrating a remarkable improvement in ROI.
  • The flawless performance and exceptional print quality of Hitachi CIJ Printers led Kraft Foods to adopt them across production lines in two facilities.
  • Kraft Foods achieved the higher traverse speed, fill reliability, and optimal print quality it required.
“We needed the Hitachi inkjet to perform faultlessly to give Kraft Foods the certainty to adopt it as the standard for the new traverse-and-fill process. Hitachi came through brilliantly.”
- Jeff Johnson,

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