Press Releases from Hitachi Europe GmbH (25 total)
The world's most expensive label and how to avoid it
When the world wastes a third of all its food, businesses can't afford to be complacent about coding and labelling their packaged food products
Perhaps among the most important pieces of information, we read daily are the labels on our food. In a small space, they pack in the detail, telling us what's inside, how to cook it, how to serve it, what it's made of, and when it stops…
Fachpack : Human centered maintenance and repair technology using AI, AR and Hum …
Düsseldorf, 17th July 2019
Nowadays, maintenance & repair (M&R) industry is facing challenges such as a shortage of skilled workers and increased complexity of machine maintenance operations. On one hand, it has become increasingly important to assist maintenance workers not only in the training phase but also in the operation phase to handle various and sometimes complex maintenance task in a specific manufacturing environment in order to ensure work quality and…
An Insignificant Detail - Printing on Window Spacer
The Spacer is the outside seal on a glass edge. It is relative to the frame and the glazing only adjusted in a small area ratio. In fact, the growing influence of the Spacer should not be underestimated.
In accordance with European standards (EN 14351-1/SIA 331), the manufacturer is required to print important information on the Spacer, including:
■ Manufacturer’s name
■ Production number
■ ug - value / g value (technical data covering…
Coding Solution for the Dairy Industry
The traceability requirements for the dairy industry creates a need for more and more tagged information. Today's dairy processors and packers use a wide variety of technologies and materials. To handle this diversity of materials, needs and requirements of customers and industry pose a challenge for industrial printers.
The key requirements of coding and marking equipment in the dairy industry are accuracy and machine durability. It is important that you achieve…
Interphex Japan 2018 - 31th int'l Pharmaceutica R&D & manufacturing expo
June 18th, 2018 - Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is exhibiting at the Interphex Japan 2018. Besides a wide range of products, the Hitachi Laser Marker Series LM-C will be shown. You can find Hitachi at Booth No. E18-48 at Tokyo Big Sight Venue. #hitachilaser #hitachicodingsolutions #industrialcoding
Learn more about Hitachi's coding solutions:
For Japan:
http://www.hitachi-ies.co.jp/english/products/marking
For Europe:
https://www.codingsolutions.hitachi-industrial.eu
For USA:
http://www.hitachi-america.us/ice/marking-and-coding
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers innovations…
How Industrial Printers Use IoT to Reduce Costs and Maximize Uptime
Keep Spanners Out of Your Works
How Industrial Printers Use IoT to Reduce Costs and Maximize Uptime
If you’re in manufacturing, you know what “a spanner in the works” means. It’s when a line grinds to a halt due to an unforeseen incident or a “spanner” (British English for “monkey wrench”), and you start losing money until the systems get back online. Today’s production facilities are under constant pressure to minimize…
Coding on Eggshell
When it comes to Egg Marking and Coding, all eggs sold at retail outlets and public markets within the EU must be marked with a specific code, which identifies the:
-method of printing
-country of origin
-hen laying establishment
Coding eggs tell the customer their level of quality and where the eggs have come from. It can also help egg marking and coding inspectors to trace eggs and enforce EU egg marking regulations. The…
Wire & Tube 2018 - Hitachi Coding Solutions will be there !
Wire&Tube2018 - Düsseldorf
Hitachi Coding Solutions is exhibiting at Wire&Tube 2018, Düsseldorf.
Meet us at the world’s most important trade fair for the wire and cable industry.
We will exhibit our industrial inkjet printers, the UX-Series. The UX-Series is a global model with highly evolved Reliability, Efficiency, Ease of Use and even Eco-friendly. Hitachi showing the printer models dedicated to the wire & cable industry, High-speed, twin-nozzle and a special model for pigmented…
Hitachi's Inkjet helps piping bag manufacturer Keeplastics to print even faster
FAST CHANGE AT KEEPLASTICS
Keeplastics has been a customer of Svenska Allen, partner of Hitachi in Sweden, for several years. Its patented piping bag ‘Kee-Seal ULTRA’, which is manufactured at the company’s factory in Norrköping, is widely used in the food industry.
When Keeplastics needed to invest in new printing equipment it chose the UX D ink jet printer from Hitachi. Keeplastics delivers its products to over 80 countries and each…
Hitachi's new Twin Nozzle Model helps to manage the increasing tracability requi …
The traceability requirements of packaging creates a need for more and more information, which has to be tagged - best before date, use-by date or date of filling. Codes for fish and meat which includes freezing period and fishing zone pose a challenge for printers.Hitachi's Continuous Ink Jet Printer with innovative Twin nozzle can print multiple lines of code to match traceability
requirements without production line complexity or speed reduction. The…
Natural Branding of Fruits & Vegetables in on the rise
Düsseldorf, 17.08.2017
More and more customers base their buying choices on how a product is packed, and retailers need to find alternative marking solutions for their fruits and vegetables.
Instead of using stickers or even packaging products in trays and cellophane wrap, the products were marked directly on their skin using a C02 Laser Coder. The laser only alters the pigment of the skin of the product, there is no effect on…
HITACHI EUROPE LAUNCHES THREE VARIANTS OF NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY IMPROVED UX INKJET …
Reduced fluid consumption, ease of use & ergonomically-designed print head ideal for printing on drinks containers like milk & juice cartons
Leading manufacturer of high performance industrial printing systems, Hitachi Europe GmbH, Düsseldorf has announced the introduction of its new UX inkjet printer, which has been designed for ease of use and maintenance combined with improved environmental considerations.
Using the latest patented Hitachi technology, the cost effective UX Inkjet incorporates a new…
Hitachi releases multi-talented new yellow ink: Best solution for returnable bot …
Leading manufacturer of high performance industrial printing systems, Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems, released a new general purpose ink solution. The new yellow ink is applicable for various types of cans, containers, material and especially suited for the printing on returnable bottles during the Cold Fill process. It offers high contrast, especially on dark surfaces, and will dry to the touch in approximately 2-3 seconds.
Balancing act between efficiency and sustainability: Ecological…
SUCCESS STORY OF WINNING THE LARGEST SALT PRODUCER IN CHINA
Leading manufacturer of high performance industrial printing systems, Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems, took a step further in extending its growing business of Inkjet Printing Systems in the challenging Chinese market by winning the largest Chinese distributer of salt.
Big player in distribution with need for smooth automated packaging lines
As being the biggest salt distribution center with one of the most modern automatic package lines in China, production amount reaches more…
Traceability in egg production by Hitachi Ink Jet RX-SD Series
Coding of eggs for the marketplace is legally required and stringently controlled. In the EU, for instance, the first digit in the code represents the farming method, the following two letters indicate the EU country in which the egg was produced, and the last seven numbers indicate the producer organisation. This code is applied directly onto the egg, frequently also with additional information, generally to ensure internal traceability in production.…
HITACHI REVEALS FIRST LASER CODERS IN NEW LM SERIES
DUSSELDORF – Leading manufacturer of high performance industrial printing systems, Hitachi Europe GmbH has launched the first laser coders in its LM Series. These new CO2 units are a natural fit with the company’s existing portfolio and complement its popular RX inkjet printers for primary and secondary packaging applications.
Hitachi’s compact CO2 laser systems boast a 10 or 30 Watt power output and are designed for printing on to various…
Hitachi Coding & Marking Division at Interpack 2014
Interpack is the world’s leading trade fair for the packaging sector.
interpack 2014 was characterised by an outstanding atmosphere prevailing amongst the approx. 2,700 exhibitors and 175,000 visitors in the 19 halls of the completely booked Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre.
Hitachi Industrial Components & Equipment Group attended the Interpack 2014 with its Coding & Marking Equipment. Beside their inkjet printers for industrial coding Hitachi exhibited the first time their brand new Laser…
Hitachi solves the problem of the “Smiling Effect”
It is a well-known fact in industrial printing that a "Smiling Effect" occurs when using a CIJ inkjet printer on round and cylindrical products.
The effect is a result of a variation in the distance from the printer head during the printing process. Cylindrical surfaces such as bottles, jars, and pipes are some examples of where a “Smiling Effect” occurs.
The increased demands within the industry for high quality printing have prompted…
SPS PARMA 2013
Drivetec s.r.l., official distributor of Hitachi PLC in Italy, presents the new and powerful EHV+ Series manufactured by Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems during the SPS exhibition in Parma, (21.05-23.05.2013).
Hitachi has implemented the newest CODESYS standard,
5 languages according with the IEC61131-3, into their innovative modular PLC. The network communication capability includes EtherCAT, Modbus-TCP and Ethernet/IP (available soon).
The existing I/O modules of the EH-150 series are suitable for the new CPUs,…
Hitachi – Competence in oil-less compression
Düsseldorf, April 2013. Hitachi Industrial Components & Equipment Group presented
at COMVAC 2013 its full lineup of oil-free compressors. Hitachi compressors,
manufactured with rigorous industry standards and methodologies and backed by its proven experience, meet the needs of the most exigent industries.
Hitachi supplies Scroll air-ends to European OEM manufacturers which develop their own packages based on Hitachi technology. Low vibration, high reliability and long maintenance systems can be achieved using Hitachi’s Scroll…
Simple and Fast Maintenance and Parts Replacement
RX-Series Inkjet print system
DÜSSELDORF – The quality of an Inkjet print system for industrial coding is not only determined by the quality of the print itself, but also by how simple the system is to operate and how efficiently it consumes operating resources. When it comes to maintenance, it is acutely apparent how the design of a device directly impacts the resulting downtimes. To keep downtimes to an absolute…
The New EHV+ Series from Hitachi
The New Hitachi and CoDeSys – a strong connection
Düsseldorf, November 2012. The new EHV+ series consists of two CPUs with memory capacities of 512 or 2048 kilobytes. Thanks to the onboard Ethernet interface, the CPUs are compatible with a variety of open networks. Alongside CoDeSys V3.4 SP4 HF1, the EHV+ series offers a wide range of precise, digital, analog, remote I/O, and positioning and temperature measurement modules. In addition…
The new RX series IJ Printer from Hitachi
The new RX series IJ Printer from Hitachi.
Reliable. Precise. Easy
Düsseldorf, September 2010. Hitachi has relied on almost 40 years of experience with continuous ink jet technology to develop its latest CIJP series – the RX.
Product marking and coding is growing in importance due to stringent market standards and traceability requirements. That said, it does not mean that coding and marking equip-ment should become the bottleneck in production…
HITACHI electric chain hoists in jib-crane at Royal Marina Loosdrecht Holland
Ad.A.KLEIN Transporttechniek b.v. in Weesp/NL is importer of HITACHI electric chainhoist since 1968.
Thousands of Hitachi hoists and trollies are delivered in the Netherlands since.
In May 2010 a new electric jibcrane was delivered to the Royal Marina Loosdrecht in Holland, equipped with 2 Hitachi hoists model 5 FN and 1 SN, 5000 kg and 1000 kg capacity.
This multifunctional jibcrane has a 1 ton hoist with liftingspeed of 4,6 and 1,2 m/min…
Welcome to Madurodam
Madurodam - The smallest city of the Netherlands is well controlled by Hitachi’s EH-150 Series PLC!
For more than 57 years Madurodam has been the smallest city in the Netherlands. Canals, gabled houses and all kinds of other typical Dutch scenes: the miniature city offers the highlights of the Netherlands on a scale 1:25. In miniature city Madurodam you can find the well-known buildings and scenes of The Netherlands. The Parliament…
