Marking refillable assets like PET bottles with an individual code represents the key to creating a circular economy. This innovative technique seamlessly integrates traceability and sustainability, fostering a closed-loop system for reusable packaging materials.
By imprinting serialized QR codes directly onto bottles, each container becomes easily identifiable throughout its lifecycle. These codes can contain vital information about the unit’s origin, life cycles and usage history. Consumers scan these codes to access valuable data, such as recycling instructions or even receive a deposit.
This version of the Traceable Quality System (TQS) is equipped with three marking lasers and three inspection cameras to verify the markings. We particularly developed it to apply serialized QR-codes onto PET bottles without compromising their durability. Keeping up with the speed of the blow molder therefore is one of its main tasks.
We have optimized the setup specifically to achieve codes that verifiably comply with the GS1 Digital Link Standard – an important basis for ensuring that the marking is readable at all points of the supply chain.
