Rocky Mountain Soap Co., Canmore, Alberta, Canada, a manufacturer and packer of upscale skin care products, natural soaps, and bath products, had been manually labeling its products. Two to three-person labeling crews were achieving labeling rates of approximately 6 labels/min. per person. The film labels are supplied by Parrot Label (www.parrotlabel.ca).
The company needed to improve labeling speeds to meet growing product demand. After reviewing equipment options that could accommodate its line of round and oblong-shaped products of various sizes, Rocky Mountain Soap purchased the new Inline Series 6000 Oblong & Round Wrap Label Applicator, an in-line pressure-sensitive labeler from Label-Aire (www.label-aire.com), through Canada-based packaging machinery distributor and integrator Ahearn & Soper, Inc. (www.ahearn.com).
Label-Aire technicians ran a series of tests of Rocky Mountain's products on the Inline Series 6000 at Label-Aire's facilities in Fullerton, CA. Then technicians from Ahearn & Soper (trained by Label-Aire) installed the machine at the Canmore plant in late June 2006, and assisted in the machine start-up, as well as training of Rocky Mountain packaging staff.
