ITW Norwood Marking Systems is part of the Illinois Tool Works (ITW) group of companies. Recognized worldwide for quality, Norwood's total-systems approach features innovative equipment, world-class customer support and an assortment of high-performance ribbons, type and other printer parts and accessories. Norwood extends its expertise to customers in the food, beverage, chemical, personal care, pharmaceutical, medical device, electronics, aerospace, military, and other industrial markets. Norwood's Thermal and Hot Stamp systems enable customers to print variable data, including text and/or graphics, on a wide assortment of packaging materials and label substrates as well as wire and sleeving. With an eye on improving your bottom line, Norwood's combination of products and services will maximize print quality while enhancing your production efficiencies and reducing your operational costs. In-line on-demand coding and marking with Norwood equipment enables customers to reduce inventory of pre-printed packaging materials. Variable printing of real-time data such as UPC codes, RSS bar codes, lot codes, production codes, expiration dates and sell-by dates improves product identification, security and tracking. Norwood designs its systems to easily integrate with a wide variety of host packaging equipment such as vertical-form-fill-seal and horizontal-form-fill-seal systems, primary labelers, thermoformers, baggers, in-line wrappers, overwrapping machines and more.