Publication: Label & Narrow Web
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Arway, Larry
Article Excerpt
American Thermal Instruments (ATI), of Dayton, OH, USA, has been in the business of manufacturing a wide range of temperature monitoring products since 1981. Included in its product offerings are reversible (liquid crystal) and irreversible temperature labels, as well as electronic temperature-tracking systems with RFID interface.
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The most unique products in the ATI line are the ascending and descending irreversible temperature labels, and these are generally custom manufactured products. Sales and Marketing Manager Marcia Dyer says, "We have a wide array of products that can be 'preset' to activate at certain temperatures, for those applications wherein exceeding or going below a certain temperature invalidates the product, kills its effectiveness, or renders it subject to spoilage."
Current applications are all over the lot. "We manufactured a pressure sensitive/thermal sensitive sticker for a European yogurt manufacturer as a point-of-purchase giveaway. The yogurt company placed the label on the cup lid so the person buying it could peel it off and use it at home to monitor their refrigerator temperature," Dyer says. "Our label partner, Innovative Label Solutions (ILS) in Fairfield, OH, preprinted the label, then sent it to us so we could put on the liquid crystal material, then we returned it to ILS for the laminating, diecutting and slitting."
Another application in which ATI partnered with ILS involved a large US snack food manufacturer that wanted its vendors to place an irreversible temperature label on the bulk products being shipped to the manufacturing plants. "These labels are manufactured with three different individual temperature...
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