Welcome to Illucode

At Illucode, an Austrian company, we provide an advanced AI-driven software service for optimizing foil usage in hot stamping processes. Developed from 25 years of practical experience, our solution is designed to address real-world challenges in hot stamping. As a professional and long-term partner, we help our clients achieve significant savings in material costs, time, and overall production expenses. Our sophisticated software, powered by artificial intelligence, is specially designed for hot stamping professionals in the printing and packaging industry, ensuring precision, efficiency, and reliability in every job.

The Illucode Promise

Our service is designed to help you significantly reduce costs through:

  • Saving Material – Our AI-driven algorithms ensure minimal foil waste.
  • Streamlining Workflow – Optimize your stamping process, including preparation and setup time, to save valuable production time.
  • Increasing Performance – By considering detailed machine parameters, Illucode helps you maximize the performance of your machines.

These benefits work seamlessly together to deliver substantial savings, with the fee being rapidly amortized within the first few days of each month.

The Illucode Key Benefits

  • Increases efficiency in the hot foil stamping process
  • Intelligent algorithm developed through long-term experience
  • Delivers verified and reliable calculation results
  • Provides a comprehensive cost calculation with a monetary result
  • Calculates for most round/flat and flat/flat stamping systems on the market and enables the comprehensive mapping of all stamping resources in a facility, independent of the machine manufacturer, capable of handling both older and modern machines
  • Renders the optimal foiling solution at the touch of a button
  • Empowers employees through purchasing and set-up proposals
  • Simple software operation, easily accessible by using your web browser

Collaboration with Gietz

We are proud of our collaboration with Gietz and honored that Gietz has chosen Illucode as their partner. Gietz, a renowned leader in the printing and packaging industry, manufactures some of the most powerful stamping machines on the market, enhancing the value of our software service.

Customer Success Story

We have a long customer relationship with a major global folding carton manufacturer: By implementing our AI-driven software, this manufacturer significantly reduced their foil waste, leading to substantial material cost savings and a more efficient production process. Not least, this also made an important contribution to sustainability.

This success story highlights the tangible benefits and transformative impact of Illucode’s software service on our clients’ operations and bottom line.

In addition to this individual success, the following diagram summarizes the findings from 37 examples across 3 plants, showing both foil savings and speed increase. The data highlights the maximum and average improvements observed at machine level:

  • Foil Savings
    • Maximum: 60%
    • Average: 21% (based on 39 calculated, real orders)
  • Speed Increase
    • Maximum: 120%
    • Average: 14%