Export market · Egypt
Offset Printing for export to Egypt
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into Egypt, where food processing, pharmaceuticals and FMCG make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for Egypt
Demand in Egypt is built on food processing, pharmaceuticals, FMCG and brand protection. Food processing, pharmaceuticals and FMCG 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 Egypt. UV exposure fades process inks faster there than the same job would fade in a temperate market, so anything displayed outdoors in Egypt needs a UV-stable build.
Cartons and inserts are where offset still wins outright, because the text is small, the register has to be exact, and the run lengths are long enough to pay for plates.
A Egypt 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 Egypt is food labels and pharmaceutical labels, so a offset printing enquiry from Egypt is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Alexandria or Port Said 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 Egypt.
Where this sits against Egypt rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Egypt is GOEIC registration, Egyptian Organization for Standardization marking, Arabic labelling, halal for meat products — and the pack language is Arabic mandatory. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy offset printing, but it is what the rest of your Egypt consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Egypt
Nhava Sheva to Alexandria or Port Said — 10 to 14 days. A 14-day sea leg is long enough that the container cycles through a full range of temperatures before it is opened. Landing into Egypt’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 Egypt
Offset Printing elsewhere
All Egypt ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in Egypt — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing in Egypt?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Alexandria or Port Said — 10 to 14 days.
What do Egypt customers use offset printing for?
Food processing, pharmaceuticals and FMCG mainly. Food labels, pharmaceutical labels, packaging labels, security holograms — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for offset printing to Egypt?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. Egypt consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Egypt run workable. Nhava Sheva to Alexandria or Port Said — 10 to 14 days.
How do Egypt 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 Egypt 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 Egypt 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.