Full traceability
of glass containers
Follow the glass container throughout the
complete life-cycle from cradle to grave
&
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Keep track of
every container
throughout
its lifetime
Each glass container is marked at its birth with a
unique code and all data throughout its life cycle
can herewith be attached to it. This enables full
traceability and opens opportunities for glass
plants, fillers, brand owners and end consumers.
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Such opportunities are described in the figure below. Besides
supporting the BEG vision of optimizing the glass container
forming process with its End to End vision it also provides
better authentication to stop counterfeiting. Other advantages
include improving everything from the fleet management
process of returnable bottles, to inventory management, in-
trade tracking, direct marketing and excise control.
Eventually manufacturers will be able to universally track
the entire lifecycle of the bottle, and Bucher Emhart Glass is
already a world leader in hot glass container laser marking.
Advantages and possibilities
1. Bottle Manufacture 2. Returnable Glass Fleet 3. Packaging – Filling Lines 4. Warehouse and Depot
Glass Plant Management
• Control of filling • Product traceability
• Key enabler of end to end • RB Fleet optimisation • Full traceability • Control of secondary
closed loop control • Leasing of RB bottle fleet distribution
• Record imagery of
specific bottle inspection
5. Filled product in trade 6. Direct Marketing 7. Government Excise 8. Authentication
Customer Controls – Anti-counterfeit
• In trade tracking, aging
and recall • Direct access to the • Control of government • Authentication of original
consumer excise product
• Flexible promo activation • Verify excised product
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Two visible solutions,
one traceable journey
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In glass production plants, ID Mark and ID Read allow for
each container to be tracked from gob to pallet through a
unique identifier, storing both Hot End process information
and Cold End inspection results and images.
Using a CO2 laser to inscribe a unique ID code on each
container shortly after forming, the precision heat engraving
process is carried out at high speed to avoid damaging
the glass. As it continues along the production line, every
measurement can be viewed at a glance.
Reading the data matrix code laser marked on the individual
bottle, cold end inspection results and images are connected
to the hot end and images are correlated to the hot end data.
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Setting
industry
standards
All of our data matrix codes are under agreement with
Cetie, the international technical reference documentation
on PET and glass packaging.
Designed as a universal method of tracing individual
glass containers, this identification system means we can
retrieve key information at any point in the value chain.
Cetie will assign a 4-digit code to each glass producer
in the world wishing to set up laser marking, which will
centrally record the information and be traceable at
every stage of the process.
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