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Candy maker refines packaging flexibility

Fully automated, easily programmable form/fill/seal/print systems reduce labor costs and packaging material waste.

VERSATILE VARIETY. Gimbal's Fine Candies markets a broad range of products in various package sizes.
VERSATILE VARIETY. Gimbal's Fine Candies markets a broad range of products in various package sizes.

Gimbal’s Fine Candies, South San Francisco, manufactures a broad range of candies and packages them in volumes from 4-oz private label packs to 5-lb bulk bags. In order to improve production efficiencies, Gimbal’s was looking for a way to provide greater flexibility to quickly, reliably, and easily change printed variable information such as ingredients, nutrition facts, date codes, bar codes, and graphics on these packages.

After evaluating several options, Gimbal’s decided to install Phaser vertical form/fill/seal machinery from Parsons-Eagle Packaging Systems (www.parsons-eagle.com), a division of Campbell Wrapper Corp. The machinery is outfitted with SmartDate® 3 and 3i thermal transfer coding systems with digital printing technology, supplied by Parsons’ OEM partner Markem-Imaje (www.markem-imaje.com). The first system was installed in 1998, and the second in 2004.

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