Offline sleeve coder for Pots & Co
Pots & Co produces a retail range of high-end desserts, which are handmade and packed in individual ceramic ramekins with plastic lids and an outer cardboard sleeve. They include: lemon & lime posset, chocolate and orange pot and sticky toffee pudding.
The company has grown rapidly since it was founded by Julian Dyer in 2010. In 2012 Pots & Co was making about 1,500 desserts a week, supplied to Selfridges and a handful of Waitrose stores. By the end of 2013, it was producing more than 10,000 pots a week by hand. Now, this figure has risen to 60,000 desserts a week, destined for 500 Tesco stores, 300 Waitrose stores and other top tier retailers such as Booths and Selfridges.
Rotech installed its RF2 a standalone friction feed overprinting system that enables Pots & Co to code sleeves offline and bring them to the production line already printed. Engineered for the food industry, the RF2 uses Rotech’s stack-to-stack feeding technology to pick sleeves from a stack, accurately print date or batch codes, and place the printed sleeve onto another stack for collection, all at speeds of 400 a minute.
Contact: Rotech Machine
