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CANDOR Sweden AB
Tel: +46 11 21 75 00 Fax: +46 11 12 63 12
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Steam-cleaning
plant
Multi wire
cleaning
plant
• Electrolytic plating
• Candojet hot water cleaning
• Electrolytic & Ultrasonic degreasing
• Welding wire cleaning and copper coating
• Pickling & phosphating
Ultrasonic
& Electrolytic
InfoSight addresses many marking
challenges for the wire, pipe, tube and
steel industries – helping manufacturers
reduce costs, increase product traceability
and eliminate errors.
It is now possible to track the entire
wire production process with one
barcoded tag – from start to finish –
without re-attachment and without
re-identification after the pickling and/or
annealing process.
Barcoding provides:
• Improved traceability of each piece
back to the parent material
• Automatic data collection during
processing
• Error proofing and error tracking
• Inventory accuracy and improved
efficiency in taking inventory
• Improved shipping accuracy
• Field identification
Plastic and paper tags used in the past
had the potential to make the inventory
process easier with their ability to
hold barcoded information, virtually
eliminating human error. These tags were
able to survive the process of pickling for
periods of up to 90 minutes.
However, when it came to the process
of annealing, at temperatures of 1,400ºF
(760ºC) or greater, these tags would
vanish in a puff of smoke. Applying tags
after the annealing process meant a wait
of several days until the coils cooled. This
opened the door to more potential for
human error.
Early metal tags survived through the
annealing process, but in some cases
would not withstand the pickling. They
required noisy stamping machines that
were difficult and expensive to maintain.
Barcoding systems for metal tags were
not suitable for all industrial applications.
This meant the use of manual inventory
control, which again meant the risk of
human error.
InfoSight created the first non-contact,
laser-markable tag system in 1995. The
next step in the process was developing
tags that would survive the myriad
of different annealing and pickling
processes utilised by the world’s wire
manufacturers. InfoSight developed the
Pic-Anneal® laser printable tag.
The Pic-Anneal® tag has a two-hour
resistance to acid baths of 20% H 2SO4
at 180ºF (82ºC) and 24% HCL at 100ºF
(38ºC). It also withstands 1,400ºF heat
for 48 hours and 1,800ºF (1,000ºC) for
two hours.
The Pic-Anneal® laser-marked tags
measure 3" wide and a slot or hole is
punched near the top for easy attaching
to wire coils.
The tags are marked with a CO2 laser,
resulting in black print across the white
surface. The barcodes printed on the
tags are readable by standard barcode
readers.
A full selection of metal tags is available
from InfoSight – all designed to withstand
harsh manufacturing environments. Tags
can be custom sized and pre-printed tags
to most customer specifications.
The company also offers a line of laser
printers which allow customers to print
their own metal tags and to change their
layout and barcodes, as needed.
InfoSight – USA
Website:
One tag, start to finish
▲ ▲ An example of one of the InfoSight tags
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