Export market · Bahrain
Offset Printing for export to Bahrain
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into Bahrain, where food processing, FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for Bahrain
Demand in Bahrain is built on food processing, FMCG and retail. Food processing, FMCG and retail in particular buy this range steadily, and the work is repeat work — the die, the material code and the colour target stay on file so a reorder is a phone call rather than a fresh setup.
What decides the specification
With offset printing the question is always registration held across a long run, and colour read against an approved target. Heat is the constraint in Bahrain. UV exposure fades process inks faster there than the same job would fade in a temperate market, so anything displayed outdoors in Bahrain needs a UV-stable build.
On consumer cartons the colour has to match across every SKU in the family and across reprints months apart, which is a proofing and ink-management discipline rather than a press one.
A Bahrain order for offset printing arrives against a seasonal pack calendar, so the reorder is usually the same die with a new flavour panel. What already moves from our floor to Bahrain is food and grocery labels and retail labels, so a offset printing enquiry from Bahrain is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Khalifa Bin Salman Port is the leg it travels, and a hot and dry destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for Bahrain.
Where this sits against Bahrain rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Bahrain is GSO standards, Bahrain Standards and Metrology Directorate, halal requirements for food — and the pack language is Arabic and English. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your Bahrain consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Bahrain
Nhava Sheva to Khalifa Bin Salman Port — 5 to 7 days. At 7 days at sea this is a short route, so the risk is handling at either end rather than time in the hold. Landing into Bahrain’s heat, an adhesive specified at Indian room temperature is close to its working limit on the day the offset printing arrive.
In this range
Posters, catalogues, brochures and printed folding cartons — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Bahrain
Offset Printing elsewhere
All Bahrain ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in Bahrain — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in Bahrain?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Khalifa Bin Salman Port — 5 to 7 days.
What do Bahrain customers use offset printing for?
Food processing, FMCG and retail mainly. Food and grocery labels, retail labels, barcode media, holograms — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to Bahrain?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. Bahrain consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Bahrain run workable. Nhava Sheva to Khalifa Bin Salman Port — 5 to 7 days.
How do Bahrain buyers usually order offset printing?
Against a seasonal pack calendar, so the reorder is usually the same die with a new flavour panel — that is the pattern across most of our Bahrain work in this range. Tell us the quantity and the reorder interval and we will quote the die and the material once, then hold both on file for Bahrain repeats.
Tell us what it has to stick to
Send the pack, the quantity and the market it ships to. We come back with a specification, a price and a lead time.