KG Claudia Gross Director

Ready for the trends of tomorrow Balingen, January 20, 2011 – prove Bizerba award systems in terms of new encoding method very flexible. Currently, a wide range of seven one – and two-dimensional codes on a label is printable. Numerous food scandals, recently dioxin findings in food, form a new type of consumer, which requires increasingly more detailed information about the origin and processing of food. At correspondingly frequent intervals push about sequential code, new coding method on the market. With these food producers encode all essential information around on the origin and processing of the food. The Bizerba software developers are always trying to anchor such coding trends as standard in the award as soon as possible and to provide them as an update”, explains Dieter Conzelmann, Director industry solutions at Bizerba. For the full range of GS1 DatBar family, as well as for the current trend of data matrix be Award devices prepared for years. Basic configuration of data”, so Conzelmann, sufficient to change the production”.

A German discounter as recently introduced a new 2D-Matrix-Code, which helps in the complete documentation of origin and processing of meat. The fully automatic price labeller GLM-I has already proven itself in this context in the industrial high performance award. “2D matrix codes”, says Conzelmann, providing the customer with a never-before-seen product transparency. Yet while shopping it can scan the code with the camera of its smartphones and on the display to display details of food, for example, the exact origin of the animals or the date of slaughter,”. Such services last but not least strengthen the loyalty of the consumer to the brand. The flexibility of Bizerba for all manufacturers of foods is generally interesting, who want to ensure that their award systems in the future on current trends without cost and Zeitintensive Special programming can be customized.

The Bizerba portfolio includes equipment for any size: from the manual GLP-printer for small businesses, through the fully automated price labeller GLM-I for industrial high power operation down to labelers for repackaging as the Kartonetikettierer GLM-B and the palette labeller GLM-P. About Bizerba: Bizerba is a worldwide operating, in many areas of market-leading solution provider for professional system solutions of weighing, labelling, information and food service technology in the segments retail, food industry, manufacturing business and logistics. Industry-specific hard – and software, powerful network-compatible management systems, as well as a wide range of labels, consumables and business services ensure the transparent control of integrated business processes and the high availability of Bizerba-specific performance features. Worldwide, Bizerba is present with 41 shareholdings in 23 countries and 54 country offices in over 120 countries. Headquarters of the company, which employs about 3,000 people, is Balingen; further production sites are located in Messkirch, Bochum, Vienna (Austria), Pfaffikon (Switzerland), Milan (Italy), Shanghai (China), Forest Hill (United States) and San Luis Potosi (Mexico).