Pannier Corporation has a long history of helping metal producers and processors identify and track their products. Reliable marking systems provide manufacturers with assurance that every product can be positively identified and tracked throughout every stage of production, inventory, and shipping.

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Tracking Hot Steel with Bar Code and 2D Code Tags

Pannier introduced the high-temperature printed metal tag to the steel industry in the 1980s, allowing metal producers for the first time to label red-hot products with bar codes. Bar coding slabs and billets at the caster allows for unmatched inventory control with durable, mistake-proof identification.

Pannier’s laser metal tag printers integrate seamlessly with Level 1/Level 2 systems and tags can be applied manually or with an automatic tag attaching system.

Steel producers realize savings through a reduction in inventory and shipping errors, the elimination of the need to scrap material due to mis-identification, and productivity increases by automating the marking and tracking processes.

Extreme Temperature Tags

Pannier printed metal tags are used by metal producers worldwide for tracking semi-finished and finished products. Attach to products up to 1000°C / 1800°F.

Durable Plastic Tags

Durable plastic tags and labels for tracking metals. Tear resistant thermal transfer printed tags withstand harsh conditions and temperatures up to 600°C / 1100°F.

Tag Attaching Systems

Attaching systems for applying tags to billets, slabs, bundles and coils. Simple hand tools for manual attaching or fully automated robotic systems.

Sheet & Strip Printers

Large Character Ink Jet Printers

Automatically print company and product identification, size and heat information, and date and time codes with these fast, reliable industrial ink jet printers.

Galvanized Sheet Printers

The Pannier Super Ink Print-All is used for inline printing of logos, coating weights, and heat numbers on galvanized sheet.

Differential Tinplate Printers

Mark lines or other patterns across or on the edges of differentially coated tinplate to indicate coating weight.

Stamping Systems for Permanent Metal Marking

Steel Industry Applications

Read more about marking and tracking solutions for the metals industries. At Pannier, we specialize in marking solutions to track metals from the caster to the customer.

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