Was a SNEED-JET® Coder the Right Fit for This Co-Packing Operation?

Prime Laboratories and Sneed Coding Solutions Have Co-Packing and Coding Down to a Science 

What Do You Need to Know About Prime Laboratories? 

Prime Laboratories is best known for its role as an industrial-scale manufacturer of various chemical components, food products, animal supplements, and hemp products. Not only are they renowned for their versatility, but they’re one of the fastest-growing co-pack manufacturers in the country. They’ve worked with companies like Super Mush, Molecule Holdings, Mycro, Formula 787, Jahan, Mineral, Asa Botanicals, and La Plante Organics; that’s the beauty in co-packing, you get to work with a number of different industries. 

If you’re new to the manufacturing and processing industry, then the term co-packing doesn’t ring any bells; however, it simply means that manufacturers, producers, or packagers are creating a product, as a service, to a customer. According to Sage, 

• “Manufacturers often engage in these activities to fill out their production line times; they expect to make a profit similar to private label arrangements, but less than when producing their own products.”

What Was Coding Like Before SNEED-JET®? 

With Prime Laboratories looking to keep their production lines busy, it was necessary to find a solution that could keep up with each industry's demands. According to Bill Connolly, owner of Prime Laboratories, 

• “We previously used handheld coding machines or labels, but as we have grown and expanded with larger clients and a wide variety of industries, it became apparent that we needed to automate our coding process.” 

While there’s nothing wrong with manually coding and applying labels when your business is just starting, problems start to arise when the demand that accompanies growth starts to exceed production capabilities. Imagine trying to keep up with even one of Prime Laboratories' clients, let alone all of them. You also have to keep in mind that they’re not all using uniform packaging, so doing all of that by hand is a definite no-go; unless your idea of a fun time is applying codes manually for hours at a time. 

What Was Coding Like After SNEED-JET®?  

Sure talking about #KeepingCodingSimple is one thing, but did our SNEED-JET® coder actually help Primary Laboratories improve their coding and marking processes; who better to tell us than Mr. Connolly himself? 

• “The SNEED-JET® coder has increased our productivity drastically; coding our products used to take a whole day with our manual system, but now we can mark a full production line in about 30 minutes. The amount of money we’re saving in labor alone has been a game changer.” 

One machine has managed to cut back a whole team’s worth of work for only a fraction of the cost. We make it sound great, but surely a piece of equipment such as this one is complicated to use or set up if it can really do what we say it can. 

• “The printer itself was very easy to set up; the instructions, as well as the software, were very intuitive and easy to navigate. Attaching the printer to our conveyors and getting that all dialed in took some effort, but the software side of things only took about an hour to get calibrated once everything was mounted and running.” 

• In addition, “the printer has had absolutely no issue; it has been amazing. Keeping the ink cartridge maintained properly and producing a clean print can be a bit tedious, but the machine picks up where you leave off every time the cartridge is reinstalled, so that is great.” 

Again, if one of our customers that was applying codes and labels by hand could make the switch, then what’s stopping you from doing the same? So, there’s no complaints about setting up this new equipment, and maintenance isn’t the worst thing in the world, but what do the folks over at Prime Laboratories have to say about their new productivity levels? 

• “Our productions are usually a 2-3 day process, and we code everything that runs through our facility; we’re now using our SNEED-JET® coder at least 2 times per week and print anywhere from 15,000 to 40,000 codes, each of which has approx. 25 characters.”   

Taking those first steps toward streamlining your existing marking and coding processes may seem daunting, but we’re doing everything possible to show businesses like yours that we can #KeepCodingSimple.   

Why let outdated coding and marking processes limit your possibilities? 

Our coders made it possible for Prime Laboratories to keep up with their versatile clients’ needs. 

Why stress about equipment that’s meant to make your life easier, when you could make the switch to coders that are easy to operate and maintain?      

Like always, we’re #KeepingCodingSimple