Take advantage of our many years of experience working with the Fresh Produce industry to streamline your coding, labelling, and inspection processes, including the use of fresh produce labels, and drive more productivity and better quality levels for your organization.

Matthews helps you overcome unique challenges of the Fresh Produce industry:

Short shelf life: You need reliable equipment that will not let you down and a partner who is available to support you when and where you need it
Seasonality of produce: You need flexible equipment and solutions that can code, label, weigh a range of produce
New laws introduced to protect consumers: You need solutions that are future proof and can adapt to meet new requirements, e.g. country of origin labelling
Major supermarkets and distributors guidelines: You need to be able to meet specific labelling, coding and quality rules for supply chain efficiencies

With our help, you can confidently invest in the right coding, labelling and inspection systems for your unique processing environment and product.

Date coding

The most prevalent coding need in the fresh produce industry is date coding — Use-by dates — on plastic or film packaging. Barcodes are also often needed. The most common technology used in this industry is a thermal transfer overprinter (TTO). Barcode labels also need to be applied to packaged produce in punnets using Label Printer Applicators (LPA) or, in the case of pre-printed labels, Label Applicators (LA).

Matthews can install the coding equipment for where it suits your business on the production line; for instance, this may be in tandem with your form, fill and seal equipment.

Areas We Service

We’re proud to supply premium date coding on film packaging, labelling systems and software Australia wide. Our innovative products and solutions are available across Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and everywhere in between. Get in touch with our team today to see how your business can benefit.

Thermal Transfer Printing on Fresh Produce

Thermal Transfer Printers can effectively and efficiently produce high-quality date and batch codes onto fresh produce flexible film packaging, making them ideal for fresh produce label printing.