Marking on a moving green chain
Sawn timber, LVL, ply and posts. CO2, marking on the fly against the encoder.
Industries
Nobody buys marking for the same reason twice.
Your sector decides what this is worth, not the laser. A mill is buying uptime. A packhouse is buying a recall it can bound to one pallet.
- One control layer, specified across timber, food, marine, logistics and engineering.
- The source is chosen by the material. The layer above it holds.
- Your ERP keeps the job, so the plant runs no second database.
What each sector buys on
Find your row before you read a page. The driver is what gets the system signed off.
| Sector | What gets it signed off | What the mark replaces |
|---|---|---|
| Timber and wood processing | Consumable spend and line uptime. Ink, solvent, head cleans, and a blocked head at 2am. | Continuous inkjet, and the packs re-branded in the yard |
| Food, seafood and aquaculture | Recall containment. A recall you can bound to a pallet instead of a week of production. | Adhesive labels and inkjet on returnable assets |
| Manufacturing and fabrication | Part identity tied to the ERP job. The part is anonymous from the second it drops out of the nest. | Dot peen, hand stamps, marker pen and outsourced marking |
| Marine and heavy engineering | Certification and service life traceability, through blasting, galvanising, coating and survey. | Hand stamps that fill with coating, and plates that blast off |
| Logistics and reusable assets | Shrinkage and register accuracy. An asset nobody can identify has already been partly written off. | Adhesive labels and riveted plates on returnable equipment |
| Asset and equipment marking | Register accuracy, and what an uncontrolled gauge costs you when an auditor picks it up. | Engraved tags, tape labels and marker pen |
| Branded production and signage | Margin and lead time. The job stops changing hands between steps. | Bureau runs, their lead times and their minimum orders |
Find your line
Each page is titled after the engineering problem in that substrate.
Start here
Marking that survives caustic wash-down
Polymer crates and stainless plant. CO2 and fibre, with MOPA where an annealed mark is specified.
In-fixture marking on your own cutter
Steel, stainless and aluminium. A head added into the fibre or CO2 cutter you already run.
Certification traceability on machined parts
Castings, forgings and shafts. Fibre at a station, or in place on installed plant.
Identity on assets that leave
Crates, pallets, cages and dollies. A Data Matrix in the asset still reads after a hundred trips.
Permanent identity on capital equipment
Tools, gauges, jigs and installed plant. Marked at a bench cell, or in place with a handheld rig.
Mark quality on branded work
Signage, panels, drinkware and anodised aluminium. One line cuts, engraves and marks in one setup.
What holds on every line
The source and the parameter set change with the material. Nothing above them does.
Why breadth is the test
The shift to item-level identity is substrate blind. A retailer moving to 2D scanning does not care whether the object is a chilled carton or a returnable crate. The same requirement wants identity on a fish bin and on a beam of LVL. Any approach that works on one substrate only is disqualified.
- The same composition engine composes the mark for the part actually under the head.
- The same connection patterns, each with its authentication model and its failure edge.
- The same acceptance document set, the same gates, the same handover pack.
- A new product family is a parameter set and a source selection, not a rebuild.
For the rest of the committee
The substrate detail, the wavelength and the interface all live one click away.
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Engineering specifications
The material matrix, the source selection matrix, symbol grading and the measured speed model.
Integration architecture
Connection patterns, authentication, failure behaviour and network posture, for IT.
Laser against ink coding
How the coder on the line works, and what a year of it costs once solvent and cleans are counted.
Programme assurance
The named document set, the acceptance gates and the handover pack.
Bring the part and the line
The site scope runs about forty five minutes on your floor. Bring a part in the condition it arrives in, the rate the line actually holds, and the system that issues your job numbers.
Last updated August 21, 2026