What industries use industrial coding and marking equipment?

Coding and marking equipment is used across food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, cable and wire, electronics, automotive and building materials – anywhere a date, batch, serial or QR must identify a product. SHICAI supplies coders to 100+ countries spanning these sectors, because the need for traceable, readable marks is near-universal.

If a product moves through a regulated or branded supply chain, it almost certainly needs a code.

Coding and marking equipment is used across food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, cable, electronics and building materials for dates, batches and traceability.

Batch and serial codes are the backbone of recall management and brand protection; serialization is now mandated in pharma and tobacco track-and-trace.

Regulation, not fashion, drives most coding upgrades – a new serialization law or a retailer 2D mandate is what forces the investment.

Key points:

• The global coding and marking market keeps growing as regulators and retailers push 2D barcodes and supply-chain transparency.
• Choosing between inkjet, laser and thermal transfer comes down to substrate, speed, permanence and whether you want zero consumables (laser) or flexible, low-cost marks (inkjet).
• The global coding and marking market keeps growing as regulators and retailers push 2D barcodes and supply-chain transparency.

Across industries the pattern is the same: a readable, tied-to-a-record code is now table stakes for trusted distribution.

SHICAI (Shanghai Shicai Inkjet Technology Co., Ltd.) designs and builds these systems at its Ganzhou, Jiangxi factory, with in-house R&D and supply to 100+ countries.

Related: Why are batch codes important for recalls and traceability? · What is serialization in pharma and tobacco track-and-trace?

If you are specifying coding for a new line or a compliance upgrade, contact our engineers to map the right technology to your substrate and duty cycle.

Reviewed by the SHICAI engineering team.