Brands, Alliances & Partnerships

Matthews lives at the forefront of technology. This is through our own technology developed in house, and by carefully choosing partnerships with world leaders in specialised fields of product identification. This puts us among the best in the world in coding and labelling. It also gives us instant access to a global network of product support.

Brands

Linx: A leading provider of continuous ink jet printers, high resolution inkjet printers and thermal transfer overprinters that are renowned for being reliable and easy-to-use, with a low total cost of ownership. Matthews has been the exclusive Australian distributor since 1988 —an unprecedentedly long partnership in the coding and marking industry.

Matthews International Corporation: A specialist in rugged, reliable industrial inkjet printers and marking solutions, that formed way back in 1850. Matthews Intelligent Identification began life as a subsidiary in 1981, to service Australian customers direct. 

Avery Dennison: A giant global label and labelling machinery manufacturer. Our Avery Label Applicators (LA) and Label Printer Applicators (LPA), sourced from Germany, have been used to efficiently move products through the supply chain since 1930.

FOX IV Technologies: A global leader in the design and manufacture of rugged, industrial label print and apply machines. Always an innovator, FOX IV introduced the world's first “repeater” applicator system in 1996, allowing customers to print and apply two labels to the adjacent sides of a corrugated box, significantly reducing supply costs over a corner wraparound labeller. FOX IV also introduced the world's first HF RFID LPA in 2001 and was the first print-and-apply company to pass the GS1 certification for Class 1 and Class 0 tags in 2004.

Solaris: World-leading manufacturer of industrial YAG and CO2 laser coding, marking and engraving systems. Since 1991 they have specialised in developing laser systems for static and dynamic product coding applications.

Intermec: Have a wide range of fixed and mobile industrial printers as well as datacapture technology. Recently they introduced breakthrough scanning technology—a near-far auto-focus scan engine capable of reading 1D and 2D bar codes at distances ranging from 6 inches to 50 feet in any orientation.

Impresstik: Australian company manufacturing a full range of in-line and rotary label applicators. Each machine offers an accurate and reliable means of label application - whether for high-speed or more basic requirements.

Omron: Vision systems and sensors enable manufacturers to operate with greater productivity and streamlined efficiency.

Datalogic: A world-class producer of bar code readers. We have a range of industrial fixed and handheld readers from Datalogic for barcode scanning and verification.

Datamax Corp: A leading bar code printer and RFID solutions company. We have desktop printers from Datamax.

 

Being an industry leader is more than just having the top technologies, support and integration capabilities, it’s about looking beyond our business and yours. We do that by taking an active role in various industry associations — it helps keep us ahead of the game.

Alliances and Partnerships

GS1 Strategic Alliance Partner: Matthews has a 10+ year old engagement with GS1 and is a Strategic Alliance Partner, the first marking and coding company to hold this status

Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) member: Matthews is a member of the APPMA and the winner of the 2011 APPMA Design Awards for iDSnet.

EPC Australia (Electronic Product Code) member