“Allen Codiergeräte develops unique coding and marking equipment with a focus on quality and reliability. Their printers will augment our existing product offering. We now have more thermal transfer printers and hot stamp coders to satisfy a wider range of applications, including large-format printing and high-speed applications,” noted Larry Kulik, General Manager at Norwood Marking Systems. “Given their strong development group and excellent engineering staff, we plan to work with Allen Codiergeräte to customize technology and cooperate on future product development.”

Allen Codiergeräte, which has been an independent distributor for Allen Coding Systems since 1989, will continue to offer products from Norwood Marking Systems, Allen Coding Systems and Allen Codiergeräte in their eight country territory, which includes Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Turkey. Customers in North America and Latin America can turn to Norwood Marking Systems, and customers in other European countries as well as Asia and Africa can turn to Allen Coding Systems for package printing technology from all three companies.

Among the technological innovations developed by Allen Codiergeräte, the NGT series of thermal transfer coding systems, introduced within Allen Codiergeräte’s territory in 2000 and to the rest of the world in 2006, stands out. The NGT 6 and NGT 8 – available in both intermittent and continuous motion versions – offer the largest print areas of any in-line thermal transfer coders in the world. The NGT 2, which is now being developed by Allen Codiergeräte, is expected to produce the most prints per minute of any in-line thermal transfer coding system in the world.

About Norwood Marking Systems / Allen Coding Systems / Kingsley Machine Company
Norwood Marking Systems, a division of Illinois Tool Works, has been at the forefront of innovation since developing the world’s first hot stamp imprinters for the food industry over 45 years ago. Kingsley Machine Company has also led the way, having patented its first hot stamp imprinter in 1932. Joining the ITW family in 2006, Allen Coding Systems is a leading U.K. manufacturer of overprinting equipment. Today, Norwood, Allen and Kingsley continue as market leaders, designing and manufacturing a range of innovative thermal transfer printers, hot stamp imprinters as well as ink and embossing printers that code and mark for a wide variety of industrial markets worldwide.

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