Easy compliance
September 1st 2011

Travtec has installed seven of its Pharmacarton Lite coding stations, seven print conveyors and a manually-fed system, all of which incorporate a Wolke m600 thermal inkjet coder, into existing lines at the Macclesfield site of AstraZeneca to ensure consistent coding of data.

The driving force behind the selection of the systems has been anti-counterfeit regulations introduced into the Turkish market, and latterly French CIP13 coding requirements, both of which have necessitated inclusion of 2D Datamatrix codes onto packs. Travtec says the European Parliament's recently-approved Falsified Medicines Directive and other moves to co-ordinate a standardised track & trace systems for international markets show the appropriateness of this move. The Travtec systems can be adapted for different coding requirements and can be upgraded to cope with serialisation.