EUROPEAN SUPERMARKET SWITCHES WINE BOTTLE LABELLING
FROM WET GLUE TO SELF-ADHESIVE

Retailer turns to Sessions for Sequence labelling system and labels with wash-off adhesive

Using its unrivalled expertise, Sessions of York has enabled a European supermarket chain to switch from traditional wet glue wine bottle labelling to self-adhesive.

The retailer wanted to improve both the quality and appearance of its own-label wines and, in a move to recycle the bottles, needed a label with a wash-off adhesive. Sessions met the brief by supplying an attractive label designed to be removed only under certain controlled conditions once the bottle is returned for washing and re-use.

Sessions supplied a Sequence 300/4 labelling system to handle the new self-adhesive wine labels. Installed in a spur off the supermarket’s main bottling line, the Sequence is fitted with twin heads to apply front and back labels at speeds of 8,000 per hour. The bottles are gated and spaced using a scroll feed mechanism.

Robustly designed and engineered, the Sequence is ideally suited to operate in hostile environments such as busy bottling plants. Stepper motor drives, synchronised to the main primary conveyor speed, and fully calibrated adjustments add to the many user-friendly features of this popular Sessions labeller.